“It has lousy swimming capabilities and gravid females — females with eggs and juveniles in her pouch — are especially non-agile. This is in contrast to some species [of the same family of isopods] which are free-living and can occur in such large numbers that they can deflesh a fish or body entirely.”

Solid louse joke…although technically an isopod. I’ll never look at a rolly polly the same…

I hope this gets incorporated in a College Humor font wars sketch…

Must be a slow day in the state department…

Sleep deprivation has been linked to certain death.

Big difference in keeping a brain alive with intensive heart remediations vs keeping a brain alive that’s intent on dying from the inside. Ain’t no stopping those amyloid prions after they reach a critical concentration.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

“Sacked” means fired in this case, right? Only asking because it seems like it could easily mean something else given the details.

And an annual salary equal to the national median income.

The best and worst thing about Texas is that it’s consistent, I’ll concede that. Consistently shitty.

Fair enough. I just saw an opportunity to incorporate the spirit of a lame Simpsons joke and pounced. Glad you went back and had a nice, altercation-free, time.

We were both banned for the following 2 years from that [un]fair.

Ftfy

Does hitting one’s self count?

A high school friend competed for a defense attache position for Denmark in fall 2023 and was bummed when she wasn’t selected. Much less bummed now.

Laws only apply to the unrich.

Wait, they continued to make games after 'Mech Warrior II?

Why you speak as if this frogboil hasn’t already happened?

Poor roach. Might as well let it be a candiru, which may actually enjoy the opportunity and experience.

Never looked at Bender the same after this. I mean, I never liked him to begin with, but after this episode it was war.

I imagine the real reason they hate the initiative is because it includes the word “intelligence,” the most insidious of their perceived enemies…besides the immigrants.

Daniel and Kelly’ Extraordinary Universe podcast discussed it in an entertaining and enlightening episode I enjoyed amidst a snow storm last year: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-can-we-see-dark-matter/id1436616330?i=1000440743429

It made me wonder if ancient gravitational waves reverberating throughout the cosmos could be the culprit, but it appears not based on current evidence.