“Behind an able man there are always other able men.”

It’s a Chinese proverb akin to the"shoulders of giants" idea.

There is no such thing as a pineapple tree. That’s an AI image.

Pineapples grow in an even more ridiculous way.

They’re made that way so you don’t accidentally connect a gas cylinder to a water line.

Simon Sebastian - Into The Atmosphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_(weapon)

Inmates make knives out of the weirdest things.

Dread it, run from it…

I understand the saliva has a benefit for mosquitoes, but not the swelling and the itching (the “unpleasantness” in the title). In essence, our bodies hung this not-otherwise-useful allergic response on something the mosquitoes couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t give up and which was firmly specific to their bites, to single them out.

If there was no saliva our bodies would be pressured by natural selection to pick some other mechanism to make their bites unpleasant. An allergy to their chitin or a phobia to the sound of their wings, etc.

Evolutionary pressure from mosquitoes has probably been no small thing.

Reprobable?

Whenever cognitive behavioral therapy is mentioned with an initialism there’s this risk of losing it to immature giggling when you substitute that other meaning for “CBT”…

Out of anger at someone roundabout predicting you will kill them.

I’m missing this one. What’s the joke here?

I met someone named McCool once. I thought that was pretty cool.

I disagree.

Oh yeah, LockpickingCaveman, great channel. :-P (it’s actually LockpickingLawyer.)

Tiny (and some of them are absolutely minuscule) flying daredevils that can zoom in three dimensions through wild air currents to avoid your hand every time and land wherever they please? Nah, I respect flies. They’re… perfected.