OP is making wrong assumptions. Yes snakes have reptile brains but they aren’t trying to kill you. It’s not like they can do much with you once you’re dead, unless you have an anaconda in which case you have my full respect.

I have a California Kingsnake (5ft long). Most of the time she’s furniture, except the one day a week I feed her (sometimes it’s even less than that). Sometimes I take her out of the tank and sit with her on the computer. Yes she’ll sometimes wrap herself around my neck, but it’s just for anchoring. She’s not squeezing to kill, and even if she did try to squeeze I can overpower her. She’s cute, she does silly things.

Snakes kinda just exist.

Slough

The difference is consent

Having moved from one to the other

• Health insurance (it’s not perfect but it’s something)
• Random shootings (they still happen but are not as endemic)
• Corn syrup in literally every food
• Having clean streets (particularly in cities)

Brooklyn, lived above a crack dealer who loved to test car stereos all night long, every day with Dad rock. Wednesday at 4am? Yup! Saturday at 8am? You bet your fucking ass.

He also had a giant black lab who he let pee freely anywhere, including inside the stairwell. One day that dog ran away.

I have my dog’s paw print on my left leg, where she used to place her paws

Single digit. It’s easier to warm up than cool down, and I can’t stand hot weather. I’m also fairly used to freezing temps.

I’d imagine it depends on the language. I will say their podcasts are fantastic (and there’s no AI in those)

I’m currently in the middle of learning a new language as an adult. I’m using Duolingo for the formal grammar lessons, but most of my learning is honestly coming from music, audiobooks, and reading comics. Recently made a few friends who speak it so that helps too.

The quality of code some people submit makes me wonder how they’re still employed

authoritarian oligarchic rogue municipality

Do… Do you even know anything about NYC? Without googling, how much is subway fare?

Or better yet, answer me this: you see an empty subway car pulling in. It’s 6pm on a Wednesday, the other cars have people in them. Do you get on?

Only partly related, I invented a fire eating trick named the Black Hole Sun :)

Dance Monkey, for personal reasons

You start a GoFundMe then die

I’m uhh a Democrat in name only. My father was a Democrat and my voter registration says Democrat, but I don’t believe in their neoliberal values

That’s what intersectionality is about, and why fascists focus on driving wedges between groups

Sorry Aubrey Plaza, you will forever be an intern

AI (2001)

Queue needs more voweis

I reached out to them back in February and they said they don’t help US peoples. They were also backed up then, I can only imagine now.

Fwiw I did eventually flee but it was through work