This is why giant supermarkets are bad. When you have a choice of several places to buy, they compete.

Rent though has been captured by optimisation software. Your rent goes up because a computer predicted you (or someone else) would pay more.

Humans have only been farming grain for about 10 thousand years, and there’s not many other foods you can grind. Ancient humans ate a lot of meat, and babies after weaning ate meat, much of it pre-chewed by mum. Things like brain wouldn’t need to be chewed

After that.

They have exactly one use, and that use is already well performed with spoons

We’re pretty sure that humans chewed food for their children before blenders and packaged baby food

By calling out dominant race they imply that those silent on race are talking about a minority

lick lick

You taste like a friend

And the jumping spiders have very cute faces, with their two large forward facing eyes

Though another hunting spider common in my bit of the world - the huntsman spider - isn’t nearly as cute, though we tolerate them in our houses, and they like our houses. They’re camouflaged for eucalypt bark, and they think they’re hidden when standing on flat painted wallboard

My partner and I have been together since before Google maps. On holiday she gets is lost, I find the way back. It makes for a nice way of seeing a town.

Of course now that “finding your way back” involves typing the location into your phone, anyone can do it and it becomes more of an affectation to use satellite free navigation

There are fungal infections that cannot be treated as there are no good targets for fungicides that don’t also affect humans

Ok, do something then

No, that’s the chip fabs. That guy just tells the rocks what to think

Signal for whole family chat; phone and SMS variously; discord for some

They are almost always better in their dock, specifically boats optimised as condos are terrible at sea since open ocean is not in their design brief

Perhaps they might be better up river as far as they can go