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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

"fastfouriertransfem" is a great username

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 hours ago

In German and Dutch it's way worse: "Säugetier" and "zoogdier". Both can roughly be translated to "sucking animals". I was taught in school that it's called that because babies suck on the mother's breasts to be fed and this is a unique trait to mammals. So in conclusion, we all suck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

In polish mammals = ssaki, and ssaki = suckers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Just wait till you know the etymology of mastodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon

Edit to save a click: "A mastodon, (from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós), meaning "breast, and ὀδούς (odoús) "tooth")"

Edit 2: the "mast" in "mastodon" is the same one as in "mastectomy"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Because

Mastodons are considered to have had a predominantly browsing-based diet

?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

"A mastodon, (from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós), meaning "breast, and ὀδούς (odoús) "tooth")"

[–] [email protected] 83 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I had to scroll back in my saved posts to a million years ago to resurrect this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Thanks for surfacing this one, it's always fun to get the older perspective and realising they're very human.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ackshully, "galaxy" (or rather, "galaxias") means "Milky Way" already, it's just a translation. It was less ambiguous when the only galaxy we could see was the Milky lights that covered a lot of our sky.

Of course, we realize there's more than one galaxy now, so the meanings have diverged.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And we didn't realize there was more than one galaxy until the 1920s (I think?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There are people alive today who will tell you the moon is a hologram. Never respect human intelligence more than you have to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 57 minutes ago

May I suggest reading Carl Sagan's Cosmos? Or watch one of the TV shows.

While your average human is about as smart as a brick, there are so many minds throughout history that were able to pull humanity out of our dark caves and into space.

What we need, to survive as a species, is to nurture people, give them (proper) education, and more will come up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Just looking at them, they appear fairly similar to nebulas within our own galaxy. It took sophisticated spectroscopic measurements to realize they're actually much further away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks, and now I know the difference between a nebula and a galaxy.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

My son just called it "the tittieverse" and now I hate ALL of you.

[–] bitwolf 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This new naming scheme sounds like a great contribution to societitty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Contriboobtion

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And then she breasted boobily down the stairs.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

To be fair, tits are pretty awesome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Even heterosexual females enjoy a nice pair of boobies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And the smaller the better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

I’m not picky.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 73 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

If y'all could please direct me to the thighs and calves galaxies I'll be on my way. I enjoy boobs as do most humans, but I am a legs man.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

So as a cock and balls man, where do I go?

[–] [email protected] 75 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Probably somewhere around Uranus?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

We should rename it as Urectum to end that stupid joke once and for all.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You're probably gonna want the Meathook/Cobra galaxy or the Gaia Sausage.

I'm afraid the Cigar galaxy is just a cigar galaxy.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago

To be fair, men got to name everything so what do you expect really. In my view it's Freudian.

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