hi! in 40 minutes your tag has been made obsolete if it's any consolation. I consider it cool cuz that's about the temp where I can't wear a tank top and shorts
Oh I realized I fucked up and meant to say cool haha, it was like that when I reblogged it (I am on mobile though and cannot fix my tags 😔), but this is fascinating.
Honestly my consideration for warm is any temperature where I feel like I can get away with only one layer, whether that layer is a sweater or a T-shirt. Temperatures at which I would risk my mother going, "I told you to bring a jacket..." because I don't want to end up carrying the thing. "Cool" is when I can get by with just a light jacket or sweater, and "cold" is when I need a proper coat, and in the other direction "hot" is when I feel the need to jump into a body of water after ten minutes outside xD
I also wore the same thing for my entire childhood regardless if it was 40 degrees or 100 with only slight variation (tights/leggings under my skirt if it was cold, basically) because I went to Catholic school in a temperature climate, so cold weather uniform options just... didn't exist, which I'm retrospect probably had an impact on my temperature gauge.
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managed to finish these! I wanna add to the last one cause I feel it has potential
dialogue for these cause it's fun;
first one; "Don't worry, 'Sassin. I got this in th' bag!"
"That... That is a team of mostly Pyros. And 2 Snipers."
second one; "Aw, c'mon! What makes ya think I'm gunna get hurt?"
"With love, do you want me to go chronologically or alphabetically?"
third one; "HaHA! See?! I told ya Pyro and Engie taught me how ta use the incendiaries!" (something is probably far more destroyed than it should be)
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"...and these...*fond sigh* these are my babies...." I say as I point towards my Kindle, my laptop, my smart watch, my earphones, my power bank, my-
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Friendly reminder to everyone to always fact check your work. Even when it seems like it's right.
Case in point: I'm making a short little post about Gambian pouched rats(!). Funnily enough, they're named not for pouches in which they carry their young, but for their cheek pouches. Apparently most other rats don't have cheek pouches like hamsters and gerbils do. Neat.
Anyway, some of the literature I was reading said that Gambian pouched rats can carry a lot of food in their mouths. Makes sense-- they're big rats. But how much food exactly? I started looking. More sources agreed that, yeah, Gambian pouched rats can carry a lot of food! Maybe even up to 3kg over the course of 2 hours! That seems like a lot, especially considering Gambian pouched rats only weigh 1.0-1.5 kg. So I do a little more digging. Every source agrees that they can carry a lot, and they all cite that very specific number of 3kg over 2 hours.
Finally, I track down an actual paper about Gambian pouched rat cheek morphology (yes I went down a wormhole. This is my HBomberGuy moment.) The paper cites 2 sources for that 3 kg/2 hr number! Great! I find those two papers, and read them. And.
Neither paper says that. In fact, they don't really talk about Gambian pouched rat feeding habits at all. One is just an observation on natural behaviors, with a brief section on their diet but no information on how much they carry. The second paper-- written by the same guy-- was about how Gambian pouched rat behaviour changes in captivity. There was a good-sized section on cannibalism, but nothing on transporting food. So that first paper, the one that cited those other two for that 3 kg/2 hr figure, just straight up lied.
Moral of the story: always do your homework kids, especially when it sounds too good to be true. Also, Gambian pouched rats can probably carry quite a lot of food in their mouths, but whether they really can carry up to 3 kg worth of food in 2 hours remains to be seen.
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