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DeepLeffen is a Twitter bot trained on r/smashbros and Tweets from professional Smash player Leffen. It randomly generates Tweets based on prompts it is fed.

It’s probably the best account on the site.

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It's incredible how people have been protesting pants and skirts not having pockets but not a single peep is heard over the fact that skirts no longer have underskirts by default. Underskirts (or lining) was a thing when I was a child, no skirt would be made without lining, you didn't have to think and check if your whole ass is visible in a skirt because lining was a thing!!!! Now most skirts don't and it's simply because it's cheaper, fuck the fact that a customer doesn't want their panties shown in broad daylight, it saves a couple of cents on material.

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ive just been born into the world what are some good games for beginners

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I was rewatching Korra lately, and this is what it made me do

I love this artwork so much.......

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starting a collection

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I hate work I should be at the (remembers I don't want to go to the club) the imagination

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hey so... everyone knows Kabru is the opposite of Laios, but nobody talks about how the rest of their party members are also opposed,

scab criminal Mickbell against unionized worker Chilchuck

dogboy against catgirl

Rin the outlaw mage who hasn't actually done anything wrong against Marcille the highborn upper class mage who's secretly a necromancer

Dia the dwarf who distrusts dungeons against Senshi the naturalist who's lived in dungeons for decades

Holm the support mage who uses other creatures as a shield against Falin the cleric with a martyr complex

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God I love when advertising copywriters lose the plot. It's beautiful.

(Reminder: Provincial/regional law and municipal bylaws are ALSO in effect! Do your due diligence and file for any appropriate building permits before vandalizing your neighbours' houses!)

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A funny comment I found on youtube

#i think eating the dragon the second time was kinda cannibalism tbh

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Mithrun on the couch transparent for all your Mithrun needs

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The “natural” and “evolutionary” preference for hourglass shapes would be news to medieval male Europeans, who as we have seen were much more interested in pear shapes. How do we explain medieval men’s desire for pot bellies if men analyze women’s bodies for signs that they may be pregnant and eschew them if they are? And what about today’s high fashion models who are tall, have small to medium-sized breasts, and slim hips yet are considered the epitome of the ideal body? All these designations of attractiveness leave out most women, even if they turn to a surgical option.

Further, our society does not praise most of the other medieval beauty preferences. We may still regard blond hair as a beauty ideal, but we are fickle on much else. In the last fifty years, we have lauded tanned skin and fair complexions—note that Black and brown women’s skin tones don’t even enter into Western beauty standards. Eyebrows go from pencil thin to bushy. And we don’t share the medieval penchant for “high free” foreheads. If standards are based on evolutionary processes, why do our current preferences differ from older ones, and why have ours changed even during different decades?

There is no single and consistent beauty ideal that has existed over time, even within Europe. Beauty is a social construct and has different characteristics in different ages. Justifying social beauty norms through scientific means is as much a social construction as Matthew of Vendôme’s effort was, and we can pay them exactly as much heed. Maybe less, because at least Matthew was giving us some poetry to read as well.

Eleanor Janega, The Once and Future Sex. 2023.

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frustrating that so much of the fanon representation of senshi is "maybe keep some things to yourself laios" when 99% of the time the two of them are party rockers in the house tonight

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I've been bingeing paleoanthro docs lately and have learned some interesting things:

Populations in sub-Saharan Africa do have Neanderthal DNA, just way less than other populations. This DNA came not from European colonizers, but rather from ancient European populations of H. sapiens sapiens that returned to Africa after bumping around up north.

Sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted in Eurasia for around 14,000 years. The dawn of human agriculture was somewhere around 10,000 years ago. This means that the two species had overlapping ranges for longer than our modern species has had agriculture. Plenty of time to hybridize.

Most of the Neanderthal DNA that survives into our modern genome is functionally useless junk DNA.

By the time Sapiens reached Europe, Neanderthals were an endangered species, and already in the process of going extinct. They had very low levels of genetic diversity, and first-gen hybrids between them and Sapiens likely were not terribly healthy or hardy. This is likely why only their junk DNA survives: There just wasn't a survival advantage conferred to hybrids, and their most viable offspring would have been produced by mating back to a Sapiens. Did not stop our ancestors from boinking Neanderthals, though.

Neanderthals show more adaptations for sprinting than Sapiens do, including a higher proportion of fast-twitch muscle fibers and a longer heel. Their proportionally shorter legs would have had a higher turnover rate during a sprint. This is probably the wildest fact to me, because every sprinter I've ever known has been leggy and lean... but every sprinter I've ever known has also been a Sapiens.

Neanderthals did, in fact, make cave art. We've found art in Spain that predates the earliest Sapiens presence in Europe, including hand stencils that better match the proportions of Neanderthal hands.

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We really did something when we invented prism deck lights...

"Oh hi don't notice me, just your friendly neighborhood FUNCTIONAL SEMIPRECIOUS GEMSTONE"

This is a seriously underexploited aesthetic. Like yes crystals are all the rage and we've seen salt rock lamps, and there's a French designer doing some cool stuff with lighting forced through prisms of imperfect stone

but I feel like there is SO MUCH MORE OUT THERE to do!

I like all the crystal suncatchers out there, except that the crystals are SO SHINY that every so often a concentrated beam of light meanders directly into your retina. They need to learn to chill out a bit.

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i like the convenience of cup noodles in terms of being able to make lunch using nothing but the hot water dispenser at work, but i hate the amount of trash. but whenever i look up diy cup noodles it's all fancy recipes for healthy alternatives to cup noodles, which i do not give a shit about. so i finally cracked a brick of ramen into quarters and shoved it in a mason jar, then poured 180F water in there to see if it would work. it seemed like it should but so many websites were telling me to parboil my noods that i was starting to doubt myself.

it worked! my only note is that i shook the sealed jar at the end to disperse the flavor packet and in retrospect i should also have done that at the beginning. i could probably do this with better bouillon and some tasty spices if i wanted. also there is room in there for frozen veggies. but mostly this an easy way to convert a 30¢ ramen packet to a 52¢ cup noodle without any extra trash.