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I’m imagining him switching his VP pick to be the dead worm. Do I still need to read the article?

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I probably shouldn’t upvote people just because they say the first thought that crossed my mind.

This is an interesting question but I don’t think it is restricted to green. Isn’t the same true of purple, blue and red? I’m not talking about just reddish like human hair or a red panda but truly bright red like a cardinal. I would imagine it has something to do with our evolutionary history. Complete speculation here but laced with a few facts I picked up. I hear the common ancestor of mammals emerged around the time the dinosaurs became extinct and was basically a tiny rodent like a shrew. I wonder if as a small animal that can’t fly or swim it had to hide a lot and basically just came in shades of brown. So maybe any genes for other colors were lost before that common mammalian ancestor emerged and although mammals have lots of patterns they don’t have many colors.

Best I’ve got is sloths. And they’re only green because algae grows on them. And I know it sounds like cheating because they aren’t intrinsically green but before you completely discount it there are animals that wouldn’t be the color they are in a different environment. For instance, flamingos are only pink because of the seafood they eat. If fed a different diet they can be almost white.

Shouldn’t athletes expecting to medal just want to skip the competition and go straight to the podium? I mean, that’s the reward, right? It is pretty easy to come up with many other analogs where there is a reward/goal that would feel hollow without whatever experience precedes it.

Don’t count on it.

The app is Covenant Eyes. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/11/mike-johnson-republican-speaker-interview-covenant-eyes.html

It gives you a blurred view of the porn the other person is viewing in a near-realtime feed https://www.covenanteyes.com/how-it-works/#activity-feed

It is exactly as bad as it sounds unless they choose to claim to not be using this feature and we choose to believe them.

HBO Gone

Yes. (See what I did there?)

As a legal matter, maybe not. As a practical matter I’m pretty sure it is evident.

He won’t seek consent for either and he’s already drafting a bill that that look you’re making… yeah, that look… is implied consent.

This man looks like he’s always about to kiss you full on the mouth but you know what he really wants to do is make a jacket out of your skin. 0 stars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIK-q6JoOeU

I don’t know much about politics but given the situation it sounds to me like he’s just hoping to get someone with a weaker hand into that already extremely tenuous position. Democrats shouldn’t be fooled thinking “but they’re more reasonable”. That person will automatically have a weaker position than McCarthy just because they are the second choice so it won’t matter much who the speaker is just the fact that they have zero room to maneuver. What might make it worthwhile despite this? I wonder whether Democrats can extract some binding commitments like non-reversible rule changes that survive at least for the session in order to secure their votes to oust McCarthy.

Pog mo thoin! I only remember the rude stuff. Literally read a bumper sticker like one time and it never left after over 20 years.

The obsolete skills they are learning are “prompt engineer”.

Here’s what I love best: pretend the positions of the characters also line up between the two photos as well. Some of them work pretty well, and some work too well:

Zhaan/Crusher
Chiana/Troi - Yeah, I know you thought Zhaan should be with Troi but the neckline and also there’s probably no one in TNG crew you could make chaotic good but if you had to pick, it’d be Troi.
Crais/Riker - Facial hair, of course.
D’Argo/Worf - No, you’re wrong! It is actually Sun/Worf. She is clearly chief of security.
D’Argo/Data - Yes, good. I’m sure D’Argo loves cats.
Scorpius/Geordi - Biohackers.
Rygel/Picard - Most definitely in charge and acting like it. Don’t let anybody tell you different.
Crichton/Yar - You… you can’t see Tasha Yar in the TNG photo? She’s right there in the… weird. I mean she was in the show from the first episode to the last one and she held the whole group together. She flies the shuttle. That’s like… that’s Crichton’s whole thing. I don’t see how you can’t… you really can’t see her?

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Some of these might be a little more like 8 than 5 because they have storybook-scary but still mentioning for you to have a look and decide.

Lost Words - Beyond the Page
Unpacking
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
One Step from Eden
Wargroove
Tsioque

Technically not female lead but kinda close and definitely age-appropriate:

Chicory - From creators on Wandersong + Celeste. Not positive your character is canonically female but let’s just call it very plausible and you are filling in for the titular character who is called “she”.
Donut County (technically the male racoon is the main character but the only human and next-most important character is female)
Journey (likely canonically no specific gender but great game, no dialog and could easily interpret as female if you choose)

Not what you asked for but maybe consider:

Beglitched - No human characters other than the player, puzzle game with pink and purple hacker aesthetic.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - Androgynous animals and humans pilot a wacky ship in 4 player co-op lots of hearts.