If you’re trying to catch a housecat that’s gotten outside, don’t forget: they’re an ambush predator and you’re a persistence predator.
You have several times more endurance than they do – use that to your advantage!
Don’t run after them; that’s playing to the cat’s strengths, and vigorous pursuit may cause them to hide. Instead, follow them at a brisk walking pace until they get tired and need to have a lie-down, at which point you can simply pick them up and take them home.
Ok but no shit this tactic is what allowed humans to survive pre-civilisation
Some mammoth: *chilling, eating grass, mammothing*
Cavedude: *power walks towards them*
Mammoth: oh sIHT
cat : haha you can’t outrun me
human:
DON’T eat brains, survival show dude, that is how you get parasites!
I’m watching Doomsday Preppers. These people have an unbelievably bleak view of humanity, like, I’m just saying my family survived the complete disintegration of Lebanese civil society without shanking their neighbours for water or stockpiling hand grenades.
If your reaction to a foreseen future economic collapse is to set traps and stockpile guns to kill your neighbours who want some of your huge food stock, you are broken and I have no idea how to fix you.
I mean it’s projecting isn’t it? They think people would attack each other in a doomsday scenario because they would attack other people in a doomsday scenario.
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Reasonable: a few weapons in case of assholes who decide to steal all your shit, i.e. the above.
Unreasonable: being the assholes and/or deciding to shoot anyone who wants help.
2. Start with any other
sentence. If you first say, “Thank you for the nice sweater,” you can’t
imagine what to write next. Say, “It was so wonderful to come home from
school to find this nice sweater. Thank you for thinking of me on Arbor
Day.”
3. Then you’re done.
I recommend learning how to write a very good thank-you note. A child
who can write a nice thank-you note can turn into a cocaine dealer five
years later and be remembered as the child who wrote nice thank-you notes.
In 3 days, I’m going to start to be a total jogging addict, I think
I’ve been beta testing it and I can confirm it’s actually the greatest app ever. Full iOS release date is as specified, Android release this Spring.
It’s so intense, at one point during the first mission when radio contact was lost, I could hear them trying to contact me “Can you hear us?!” and I literally grabbed the mic and shouted, “I CAN HEAR YOU WHAT DO I DO?” even though that’s not how it works.
I’m just glad nobody was near me.
Alright yall sit your asses down I’m telling you a story
I have this app and it is one of my best purchases I’ve ever had. It endorses your running and makes you work.
The only downside is that it is fucking terrifying. One time, I was running, and got surrounded by zombies. Groaning and shuffling from all angles. And I have never ran that fast in my entire life. I completed my course(which usually takes 15 mins) in 5. I was also screaming a bit. I got some really weird looks, too.
So, morale of the story: This is a fucking scary app and I recommend it 100%.
HEY SIT YO ASSES DOWN LET’S CHAT ABOUT WHAT A GREAT APP THIS IS.
I’ve had this app for, what, two years now? Yeah. Two years.
Literally the best investment of my life. Yes, better than SAT tutors, personal fitness training, college, and art class, though these are all things that are important and helped me take steps towards being awesome. But this app might be literally saving my ass.
So first I downloaded the Zombies, Run! app on the Android. What does this app have? And the above stories are true – you can set your app to a GPS chase (or accelerometer but that’s really annoying because phones aren’t built for that) and zombies will chase you. And they’re groaning over your music and everything.
But what changed my life for the better was the Zombies, Run! 5k training app, only $2.
THAT’S RIGHT, AN 8-WEEK COUCH-TO-5K TRAINING, THEMED IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, FOR ONLY TWO FUCKING DOLLARS.
You don’t even need the original app. But the original app’s storyline enhances this one, and vice versa.
Now, you might be like, what? That can’t be right. Pay $2 to train for a 5k in the course of only two months? HELL FUCKIN’ YEAH YOU HEARD ME RIGHT.
This is me being a massive lonely nerdass at the Color Me Rad a month ago. Granted, that race had more hills than I cared for (I trained on a flat boardwalk), but I still ran. And before that, only halfway through the program, I ran the Electric Run 5k with my also-nerdass boyfriend. Yeah, ran it. Hell yeah.
And I clocked in a 11:41 mile yesterday on the treadmill. A year ago I couldn’t even run for more than a minute without wanting to stop and roll over off the boardwalk onto the beach.
And what’s better: I’m seeing my blood sugar levels drop. Yeah, I’m diabetic, and this is actually helping my fat diabetic ass. So along with a better diet and a totally rad EDM playlist, this game is literally saving me. It’s helping me get up, get active, and finally start loving to run.
Okay, but enough about me.
What else does this game have that you should 100% get behind?
Indie developers!
…that actually respond to their players!
Canon queer representation!
Canon diversity!
Continued content!
An AWESOME community!
DID I ALREADY MENTION CANONQUEER AND RACIAL REPRESENTATION!?
Continuously updated content!
They’ve been recognized by all sorts of British media, and after this app got big, Six To Start was funded by the British government to help develop an app for walkers!
This is literally one of the best apps on the market.
Please support this app for awesome INDIE APPS, FUN FITNESS, AND REPRESENTATION!
welp guess i know what i’m downloading once wisconsin’s weather makeS UP ITS FREAKIN MIND-
They exist for the same reason as anything else does – there was opportunity for them. Like rain leaking through a roof, evolution found the cracks of possibility and followed them. There are tens of thousands of species of wasps, each adapted to fill a particular ecological niche. Some have complicated diets and social relationships, some do not have stingers, some are promising candidates for biological control of harmful pests and invasive species.
Wasps are actually really interesting… the species that tend to annoy humans are social wasps, like yellowjackets. Only the females possess stingers – they’re actually ovipositors for laying eggs, that are dually functional as a weapon. How cool is that? It’s easier to have respect for wasps when you think of them as clans of warrior ladies determined to feed and defend their families.
Many of them help keep pests from overwhelming crops and gardens, if you’re looking for “why is this useful to me”, and a lot of them are pollinators.
whoever timed the film to the music is fucking brilliant this is gorgeous and oh my god i know they’re made of a lot of fat/blubber but this gave me like seven heart attacks
Penguins don’t have hollow bones like other birds do. It’s partly because they don’t need reduced weight to fly, aaaand partly because of this.
Also, their legs are almost as long as the rest of them, but are hidden under their skin up to their ankles to keep them from losing warmth through their legs.
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