No, so try to keep it short.

I’m not the OC, but the Japanese have two good words for related things that are not quite as rare as you’d expect: Hikikomori and Jōhatsu.

Not really, thanks though.

And after that?

It’s even simpler than that… they were firing the laser at the hatch when it opened, and the laser beam hit the “baby” before they’d had a chance to turn it off.

Did you succeed?

Same! My first emotion upon seeing this was “oh god, I would love that kind of solitude”…

We truly are lost…

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

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.

Tomato / tomato.

That video never really answers the question…

Looks a bit like the Arachne browser for DOS.

A two-track mind.

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.

Sure you are.

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