All the Dude ever wanted was a good “collage” upon his rug.

Whoah! That seems weirdly hostile, for no particular reason.

My fellow monkey-man, may I ask you to explain…?

This is a fascinating subject to me, as “dominance hierarchy” has been overly plain to me since the evidence we have of early civilisation models, but also much more recently, in terms of dear Jane’s observations of Gombe chimps, plus dear Robert’s (Sapolski) observations upon baboons.

Now whether that same type of hierarchy structure is the same when it comes to other tribal / social animals such as Grey Wolves and doggos seems a fascinating thing to observe, whether or not the whole ‘Alpha-Male’ thing is complete nonsense, or not. (with no apologies whatsoever to utter wankers, such as Andrew Tate)

Conclusion? Please, let’s never forget that we humans are also monkeys by definition. (Great Apes < Apes < Monkeys < Primates)

And we’re the most truly dangerous of all monkeys, n’est pas? :S

You might like ‘aloe water’ too, altho for a different set of health benefits.

It helps with a lot of things.

Nor I.

Eh, sorry… no idea what any of that means.

Not in the moon pic, no. I’m not sure how many times you’ll see a face and genitals in the very same area, but I suppose it’s not zero.

Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. Next pass it was entirely gone IIRC.

The song’s about emotional ambivalence in relationships. That whole first album of hers is just fabulous.

An important footnote needs to be added-- humans also have a discrete brain region devoted to detecting faces in patterns. I suspect that’s similarly the case with seeing genitals.

Vendredi sur Mer (Switzerland) - catchy, original electropop with a lot of lullaby-ish spoken word. Much of Charline’s early work was co-written by wunderkind Lewis Ofman.

Haha, much humanier.

Nice forensics, or… whatever the right word is!

They do sound really tricky to grow to get the edible thistle-flowers. From what I’m seeing (among other things), they need a sustained, cool winter in order to produce the necessary vegetation and buds, something not usual for the SE, it seems.

Seems like every fluffing thing’s more expensive now, but it used to be that the local store had good prices on 'chokes, here and there. Now I’m curious to see what prices will be like in the coming harvest season. They’re typically grown in California (I think), but from the little research I did, it doesn’t seem like the rest of the country should have that much variance in price, based on shipping. Regardless, I’m going to try grilling some hearts, next opportunity…

I sometimes prepare artichokes from whole. Usually by throwing in a stew and letting them cook that way. Other times by steaming in a wok. Or occasionally by baking.

I suppose the baked version of the hearts would be best to use for grilling, but I’m not sure. Hard to believe they’d be better than store-bought smoked, though. *shrug*

Nice to see this one full-sized in my feed. Most of the rest of these Hypocra Sea comics only appear in a small window, and need to be clicked to get taken to the OP site, which is less than desirable for me.

…having strong principles and actually sticking to them might be a common theme among the userbase here.

That’s what I’ve traditionally thought, but I’ve found there’s less of it that sentiment than I’d hoped for. A lot more people willing to be ‘content consumers’ or opinion-spewers without doing much to help make the FV work than I’d imagined. That said, some of that’s surely just whining on my part as someone who chronically wishes that more communities (including mine) received more help & participation, as well as someone on the ‘snappish-side’ due to constant pain. Also, not everyone here necessarily came from Reddit, or has any special respect for the Fediverse.

You don’t say!