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Yeah I just think it's kind of neat how the names of English pokemon are formed in a similar way to how they are in Japanese.

I think these are the same root? Pika pika is used to mean clean but it's onomatopoeia for sparkling. That double word onomatopoeia construction in japanese doesn't really have a direct analogue in English I don't think.

Usually directly feeding animals is looked down upon because decreasing their fear of humans tends to be a negative for their survival, and it might impact their ability to forage for their own food. With birds specifically, though, putting up feeders is more mixed. Migration takes an enormous amount of energy and and human sprawl has removed a lot of natural food sources. And especially in wintertime, food can be quite scarce for birds. But at the same time bird feeders can actually be big spreaders of disease and I know that there was guidance that people should take down feeders at the height of bird flu.

Now when it comes to mallards, they're honestly a species that is incredibly urbanized already, so I don't think directly feeding them is doing a great deal of harm.

Pika is pronounced "pie-kuh" generally. Pikachu comes from pika pika (japanese onomatopoeia for "sparking/sparkling" usually with the connotation of clean) + chuu (sound a mouse makes/squeak).

Yes, I'm pretty sure this is a fake gift box that The Onion used to sell.

Same as the first picture but fatter.

Eh I wouldn't count on that. It's not like assholes all get along with one another.

Yeah I agree, way too little detail in this article.

The comments on that article gave me cancer.

I somehow think the method for decoding what the object is is more rigorous than some guy being "oh i dunno I guess it's a cucumber maybe?

From here

She basically said "schumer is a symptom, the real problem is the party itself, we need to primary people and get them out." Not sure how that's spineless.

Crazy that words have meanings.