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Does Lemmy feel hostile and/or insular to you?

You can be whatever you want to be. Karma isn't really a thing here. If people don't like what you have to say, then it's tough tiddies. They can block you. If you get banned from a community, you probably didn't want to be a part of it, anyway. Just be you and don't worry what others think. People generally like genuine.

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Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center. A judge wants to know why it’s covered up

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"I'm sorry, sir. It seems we've used all the gold in the world on your Trump Mobile phones. That isn't a bad thing. The phones were biggly successful. Everyone has one. Putin has two. But, we're going to have to use a new, even more expensive metal for your name. It's called Invisbium. Only the most powerful people in the world can even see it. I can't see it. I'm sure you can, though, sir."

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A trillionaire and richest man in the world and still plays the biggest victim

I hope he's paranoid. I hope every moment of his life is spent in fear of being killed by a stranger. Not the passive, "Someone's out to get me," fear, but real dread. The kind that makes you question the wind that blew across your neck. The kind that makes you wonder if that person you like being around actually likes being around you. The kind that makes you believe that maybe it would be easier to just...

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Tipping

The solution is to cook at home. It's better, cheaper, and you only have to source the food, learn the recipes, understand the techniques, own all the equipment, serve yourself and your family, and clean up after yourself. Fuck tipping.

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Pampering a King Cobra...

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It could be coming up to a shedding cycle. Water softens the skin and helps with shedding, and snakes will actively rub against textured surfaces, like the arm in this video, to work the old skin loose. That would explain both the rubbing and its tolerance of the handler. The cool water may also just feel good on a hot day, since snakes are ectotherms.

While we like to project our emotions onto snakes the way we do with other animals, snakes are fairly simple compared to mammals, and there's no real evidence they form social bonds the way a dog does. A snake can be seen preferring one handler over another, but that's usually closer to comfortable tolerance than genuine affection. This one is likely habituated to people in a captive setting, so it doesn't read humans as a threat. That relaxed, approaching behavior gets perceived as enjoyment when it's really just a snake that feels safe and is getting something useful out of the contact.

Or it could just be a good snake who wants pets and we should love it and care for it and give it all the frozen mice it wants.