Of the organs that are unique to us mammals, tits are more fun to play with than placentas.
In the defense of the ancients who were naming things like other things they sort of looked like… what OTHER substance was around at that time that was both white and liquid?
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Because maybe we should be grateful for the milk metaphor instead of the option that only nuts would choose…
\ >.> Would you rather it be called after dough?
I don’t know, I prefer butts. Tits are nice, but only half the population have them.
I like butts, but I prefer tits. I’m a simple man.
I’ve never seen a perfect butt though. I’ve seen a great one, but it had a crack in it.
an amendable issue
I’ve always thought my defining characteristic was my nipples.
“fastfouriertransfem” is a great username
You just know she wears programmer socks
In polish mammals = ssaki, and ssaki = suckers
In German and Dutch it’s way worse: “Säugetier” and “zoogdier”. Both can roughly be translated to “sucking animals”. I was taught in school that it’s called that because babies suck on the mother’s breasts to be fed and this is a unique trait to mammals. So in conclusion, we all suck.
in swedish it’s basically that except we say “nursing animals”, which is more specific
Same in Slovene. Sesalec - Sucker.
Just wait till you know the etymology of mastodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon
Because
Mastodons are considered to have had a predominantly browsing-based diet
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"A mastodon, (from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós), meaning “breast, and ὀδούς (odoús) “tooth”)”
Ackshully, “galaxy” (or rather, “galaxias”) means “Milky Way” already, it’s just a translation. It was less ambiguous when the only galaxy we could see was the Milky lights that covered a lot of our sky.
Of course, we realize there’s more than one galaxy now, so the meanings have diverged.
And we didn’t realize there was more than one galaxy until the 1920s (I think?)
We didn’t even suspect?
Just looking at them, they appear fairly similar to nebulas within our own galaxy. It took sophisticated spectroscopic measurements to realize they’re actually much further away.
There are people alive today who will tell you the moon is a hologram. Never respect human intelligence more than you have to.
My great aunt explained to me as a child in the 70s that the moon was round because gravity pulled it into a sphere. This woman was born around 1890, educated in a one-room schoolhouse and lived on a Civil War-era farm in bumfuck West Virginia.
And then ya got what we have here today.
May I suggest reading Carl Sagan’s Cosmos? Or watch one of the TV shows.
While your average human is about as smart as a brick, there are so many minds throughout history that were able to pull humanity out of our dark caves and into space.
What we need, to survive as a species, is to nurture people, give them (proper) education, and more will come up.
I grew up on Sagan. I’m not saying we should accept anything the way it is or not take inspiration from our achievements, just that we should not be prideful or expect any greatness from anyone.
We’re currently smarter than we’ve ever been in a lot of ways, but I find the smarter you are it only changes the kinds of mistakes you make.
I do agree that humans increase in value the more you value them, and vice-versa. Society should be structured around maximising “human capital”, so to speak.
I mean, point me to a milk producing animal of another class without stretching some definitions a bit.
My son just called it “the tittieverse” and now I hate ALL of you.
This new naming scheme sounds like a great contribution to societitty.
Contriboobtion
Galactose
And then she breasted boobily down the stairs.
Gaia?
