Is that California roll fake crab?
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Idk how this is a science meme but this meme is hilarious lmaooo
Biology? Idk some of the memes posted here are a bit of a stretch to fit the theme.
Marine biology.
I got to feed endangered African penguins once at an aviary! They just swallow whole fish (whether in the water or tossed to them though the air), no need for prep or plating.
Fun fact, they secrete all that fish oil right onto their feathers (it helps them glide though the water), but that makes them little stink monsters! Seriously, penguins smell rather terrible haha.
i grew up near Marine World Africa USA before it got bought out by six flags. It was the Standard Second Grade Field Trip out here to go to Marine World and go see the animals and ride the teacups that i swear disneyland ripped off and made better (yes i made this part of the story up when i was in second grade shut up). But the park was not opened up for the summer yet and all us little shits got to run around. And at 2pm they had a penguin feeding and I told my teacher I loved the pengies at the Portland Oregon zoo, so we went to see the pengies and get a special lesson from the pengie trainer. I don't remember most of it but i got to throw a fish at not to (let's be honest i still throw like an uncoordinated 6 year old who should have been drummed off his tee ball team) the penguins.
It was neat
first song i ever wrote that was good was about one of their elephant trainers, who was a good friend, but that's another story
That must have been really fun! The Toronto zoo has an awards plaque for “Nice Penguin of the Month” and “Naughty Penguin of the Month” which leads me to believe that they must be characters
Oh most definitely, this species at least was full of personality. They were very well cared-for so they were little divas and had all kinds of interesting relationships with one another (the caretaker told it like a soap opera).
They would also ignore the fish we tossed that they didn't prefer and wait for their favorite. So the caretaker had to go around and pick up the extra fish when food time was over lol
Added fun facts: they have teeth in their throats to haul the fish down, and the fish oil secretions are stored in a gland near their tails!
Weird that they keep flightless birds in aviary, but penguins are my spirit animal so I'm jealous.
Wow, that's... kind of disgustingly intriguing of evolution...
This looks actually pretty good
Nothing wrong with Ubuntu if you just wanna get stuff done and don't have a genuine interest in (or time to spend on) tweaking your OS.
I use Ubuntu btw.
There is lots wrong with Canonical imho, but this isn't the place for it.
Debian here. IMO "btw" is reserved for a particular distribution and you know which one it is.
I do CrossFit btw.
When I have even the smallest bit of time and headspace to dedicate to it, I will switch back to Debian as it was always my favourite but really can't deal with it at the moment.
Linux Mint Debian Edition is just great for that case. If I were not so much into fedora's rpm-ostree I would be using that, or MX Linux.
I love me some atomic spins....
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I like Debian, it is boring in the best way.
I really did not like the process of upgrading from one stable version of Debian to the next. It went OK, but i remember being anxious the whole time, compared to Ubuntu's gui workflow, and failing that, the one-command cli version that i always have to look up
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I'm forced to use it so it's easy to hate it because of that, every little thing that I know isn't a problem or as hard to do on other distros just makes me long for those.
What about snaps though?
Honestly asking since I've never actually used them
Oh yeah I forgot about those, I think I actually disabled the snap service, or maybe I have a couple of things via snap but only small gui utilities. I use apt and dpkg for everything else, but it was annoying that they made Firefox snap only since 22.04 unless you add the extra apt repository. Easy enough to work around it and move on though.
Fuck snaps.
I agree
I use Arch btw
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as opposed to a wild penguin.
The Zoo is animal prison. You don't get a death row meal in the wild.
He must have given her the shiniest pebble on the planet because that looks fucking delicious ngl
And as a fellow seafood lover, I want some of what you're smoking.
I mean what the hell is going on in the top and bottom right quadrants? What's with that bright orange noodle slop? And I can't even begin to describe what the other thing is supposed to be. Also, no cocktail sauce? No butter?
u right
Bottom right Mushroom wild rice, top right is wasbi mayo. I think the fish are smelts. The imitation crab and shrimp im not sure about.But the rest of the plate I can say is indigenous cuisine and native to my area. Very delicious for the most part epsiecally the wild rice.
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Favorite pasta sauce: orange.
Like how Gatorade is blue.
Gatorade is yellow-green, you heathen. Anything other than lemon-lime Gatorade require the qualifier.
Yo, can I be a zoo penguin, please?
At least I’ll die happy
"I wanna be someone's penguin" sounds kinky, not gonna lie
So we click the things that say can not do challenge and we'll pick the alternatives, no?
"Accessibility
For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives."
Is this secretly some sorta recipe for making his dong go/stay up?
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