i saw some thread on xitter with some dude asking why drag queens “want to be around children so much” re: story hours and all the replies were either predictably disgusting or very defensive but not a single goddamn one of them answered the question so i will help in case anyone ever asks you this incredibly stupid question: they are clowns!! drag queens are just clowns!! they put on extremely silly makeup and huge wigs and bright clothes and do over-the-top performances that make people laugh and smile and sometimes cry. that is the definition of a clown. they like to perform for children because they are a type of clown and children are great audiences and it is not any deeper than that. god damn.
It drives me insane how many people dont realise how often they break the law and that if the full force of it was ever applied life would basically be unliveable. Like between traffic violations, petty workplace theft, account sharing and piracy alongside how common it is to have been in posession of some illegal drug at some point in your life. People still manage to get away with thinking “criminals” are people who commit crimes not just populations that are surveilled enough to be routinely prosecuted
I still can’t fucking get over how cetaceans adapted to spend their entire lives in the water and just never bothered to redevelop water-breathing. there’s motherfuckers who spend an hour or more diving and the evolutionary solution is just “breathe a lot on the surface and then lower your heart rate to a near-hibernation level while actively cruising the seafloor for stuff to eat”. totally insane solution to one of the oldest solved problems in biology
Well, there are some good reasons for that.
First, foremost, and Steve Alten be damned, one cannot simply “re-evolve” gills. All the bits and bobs that used to be gills in our water-breathing ancestors are jaw and ear bones now. If some kinda mammal wanted to reacquire the ability to breathe water, it’d have to be from scratch. Evolution is a cheap-ass, so as long as there’s a perfectly good set of lungs on that fella, it’s not gonna bother to make an entirely new lung-alternative.
Secondly - and psych, this is actually more important - compared to air, water fukken sucks as an oxygen carrier! At its highest, water’s potential for holding dissolved oxygen maxes out at 14.6mg/L…for fresh water…at 0°C. Saltwater carries about 7-8mg/L of dissolved oxygen. Good ol’ air, meanwhile, holds a whopping 21mg/L of oxygen! Compared to water, that’s pure jet fuel! It’s just more efficient to go up to the surface for a breath of air and hold it.
TL;DR, mammals don’t have the tools to evolve the ability to breathe water and no incentive to do so in the first place.
i love being sober and talking to drunk people at parties cause i asked a guy “if you were a wizard what kind of spells would you cast” and i know he wasnt lying when he said “summon creatures”
