obligate <whatever> doesn’t mean you can’t eat other things, it just means that’s the vast majority of the diet. Cats are obligate carnivores but very much enjoy eating some grass now and then, and when catching things in the wild i assume they’ll end up eating the stomach contents of their prey (which will be plant matter).
And of course there’s those infamous clips of herbivores casually eating meat, because food is food. (they just won’t eat a lot of it, because that would make them sick). It’s like how we can eat a couple strands of grass, but if we try to make it a regular part of our diet we’ll get constipation.

the term is nonsense, but the brain stem obviously exists and handles low-level functions that directly keep us alive.

I’ve specifically tried to get in touch with my body’s feedback over the past few years, and i’m 100% convinced that the ability to sense what nutrients you get from food and then want that food when you need those nutrients, is a fundamental thing to any animal that can actively seek out specific foods.

My recommendations to get in touch with this ability is to limit snacking and try to get as hungry as possible before eating (so you have a chance to calibrate yourself, feel the difference between eating things out of habit vs actually craving them) and to try as many foods as possible even if you think you don’t like them, in as many different ways of preparation as possible.

There are so many things i thought i didn’t like until i tried them in a specific way, and there are many things i thought i liked but i’ve realized it was a very surface-level enjoyment. These days when i follow my cravings i’m filled with a borderline spiritual feeling of well-being, the food really feels like it’s good for me (and that includes desserts/sweets, because i’m very specific about which ones i like and how much of them i eat).

Afaik it’s more comparable to turkey, because of their lifestyle and whatnot.
I think ostrich is another close comparison

bull is a generic term, there were absolutely bull dinosaurs. Like there was at least one species of herbivorous dinosaur that lived in herds and had strong sexual dimorphism.

clearly this means there were sauropods with wings, who evolved to use tornadoes for transportation

we passed the point where this became possible years ago, it’s just a matter of them bothering to do it to you.

Which is why we should have zero tolerance for surveillance cameras, even if we assume everyone involved has the best of intentions, they can and will get hacked (a horrifying amount of cameras are available over the internet without even a password) and the data will be used to hunt people down.

i’ve only got 16 megabytes of ram left and it took me half an hour to render that gif!

well that goes both ways, a juvenile might go whole hog with the venom whereas an adult might decide it’s not worth spending the venom on you.

we also tend to have some sort of stockpiles, like the fucking american cheese reserve

have you tried not being sad?

ah yes, the openarse

ironically i fear the SHIT out of right wingers, because they seem to actively want me to suffer before i die, for the crime of not being able to have a job

i’m just autistic and have re-watched all of Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong like 5 times

the new one lol, people were really excited about it so it’s weird that you missed it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_with_Dinosaurs_(2025_TV_series)

From what i’ve seen it’s basically 50/50 if any one species had a significant amount of feathers, but feathers do seem to have existed in the earliest dinosaur ancestor so it could maybe potentially show up in any species.

Then you can get more detailed and memorize which kinds of dinosaur had what kind of feather covering, like sauropods seem to at most have some quills and similar decorations, while dromaeosaurs (dakotaraptor, velociraptor, etc) were basically big murder birds with full on wings.

But of course even within clades there could be significant difference: T.rex seems to have been, uh, covered in straight up skin like a giant plucked chicken… but at least some of its relatives were mostly covered in feathers.

yeah, we have some absolutely amazing art these days. i particularly love this type of depiction of dromaeosaurs: Just MASSIVE birds with teeth instead of beaks and huge claws, they feel very… cromulent…

i have to wonder if americans uh, get them confused with geese… Because geese can absolutely have a tendency to actively harass you, while swans don’t get close enough to interact with us in the first place.

Unless american swans are just suffering from lead poisoning like the general population?

it’s not like documentaries aren’t plenty popular, that recent series on dinosaurs (walking with dinosaurs, i think?) with our homeboy David Attenborough was hyped as fuck, no cap, on god, etc

oh yeah that makes sense