This should be a new thing. A friend who will make sacrifices to see you, take time to visit you, takes time away from family responsiblities to see you, that is a penguin friend. I aspire to be a penguin friend.

It’s actually kind of romantic as far as animal breeding goes. Apparently this species of penguin mates year after year with the same mate (Yeah, they can recognize one another). So Dindim probably has a girlfriend he keeps going back to. Males and females are both equally involved in caring for the eggs/chicks too.

I lived at my parents’ for 3 months and tried to make the squirrels in their garden my friends:

East St. Louis, IL is probably one of the worst places in the nation for any kind of services. Last I heard, they still don’t have trash pickup or a functioning sewer system. The murder rate in 2014 was higher than Honduras, making it one of the most dangerous places to live in the world. They fired half of their…

I’m a “run toward the noises” type, not a “freeze” type, so I find the freezing as unrelatable as you’d find my response. I am agitated when everything is too quiet, but when chaos erupts, I become calmer and calmer, and I feel like I know what to do. I think the species would be extinct if we were all one or the…

There’s also social proof:

Ugh, that’s awful.

I can’t help but wonder if people don’t stop for stuff like this because of fear? I mean, politics and the media are such fear mongers, even I’ve seen the FB meme about how not to stop if you see a baby in a car seat on the side of the road because it’s a “gang trick”. So maybe it is...but what if…

I doubt there’s a racial issue. East St. Louis is 98% black. It’s likely that all of the people involved are the same race. It’s a horrible tragedy, made worse by indifference, but probably not due to race.

This is tragic, but not surprising. I think that the majority of drivers don’t stop for someone in distress under most situations. A couple years ago, I was driving on a suburban section of interstate. I noticed an elderly woman desperately flagging down cars, so I stopped. Her husband was performing CPR on the third…

I feel motivated so I’m downloading it now. Look forward to me saying things like “I like small dogs” or “I am the orange”.

Start with duolingo and then if you comment her in Spanish I promise to reply in Spanish :)

No, because you cannot provide one single scrap of proof that I am wrong.

Wait, so, do we know definitively that she didn’t consult with Native American experts or sources that said experts published themselves?

It is the modern way Social Justice campaigns against racism, by ensuring we all stick to out own kind. You know, separate yet equal. No mixing.

Fantasy writer writing an entirely fictional reality to explain real world events in a fictional, alternate manner is criticized when her representation of a culture is fictional.

No, it actually IS her world. She created it and incorporated parts of lots of cultures into it. You don't like it? Go write your own billion dollar franchise instead of outrage pooping on someone else's to get publicity

Oh my god, horseshoe theory in action. White people should only talk about white culture, only Native Americans should draw on Native traditions, and so on and so on. And hey, why don’t we just have separate restaurants and places to sit on the bus to avoid cross-contamination, that went well last time.

I wonder how many people who are already angry about this are simultaneously fans of Neil Gaiman, who has done this kind of thing extensively through various works his entire career.

Is there any substantial difference that I’m missing?

Yea my dad has some old hunting rifles as well( even tho he hasn’t been hunting in...I don’t even know how many years) even though my siblings and I are adults and moved out of the house. He still keeps them disassembled and locked in a gun safe, with the cartridges locked separately. Even if I wanted to shoot one I’d…