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[Eric Blank]

 Stumbled upon an article about female snakes having a clitoris. This was apparently a big deal because nobody noticed them before.

Apparently crocodilians also have one. And zoologists have known about that for a while.

[Loud Whispers]

Stumbled upon an article about female snakes having a clitoris. This was apparently a big deal because nobody noticed them before.

Apparently crocodilians also have one. And zoologists have known about that for a while.

75% of herpetologists are men, is it any surprise they could not find the snakes' clitoris

[TD1]

So 'Snakes' clitoris' is obviously grammatically incorrect.

But this raises a question which philosophers will doubtless ponder for generations. What is the plural of clitoris? Clitorises? Clitori? Clitoren?

((Autocorrect suggests 'clitorises' is correct, but autocorrect is no fun))

[JoshuaFH]

Ah, the legendary Snitoris has finally been discovered.

[pisskop]

I was perfectly happy thinking that everything was all cloacas down there guys

[delphonso]

That explains the forked tongue.

[scriver]

I'm glad the snekgirl days are over but this would have been a fine addition

[None]

So 'Snakes' clitoris' is obviously grammatically incorrect.

But this raises a question which philosophers will doubtless ponder for generations. What is the plural of clitoris? Clitorises? Clitori? Clitoren?

((Autocorrect suggests 'clitorises' is correct, but autocorrect is no fun))

Funny, I had a similar discussion just the other week. I think the dictionary result was 'clitorides.'

[hector13]

So 'Snakes' clitoris' is obviously grammatically incorrect.

But this raises a question which philosophers will doubtless ponder for generations. What is the plural of clitoris? Clitorises? Clitori? Clitoren?

((Autocorrect suggests 'clitorises' is correct, but autocorrect is no fun))

Funny, I had a similar discussion just the other week. I think the dictionary result was 'clitorides.'

Sounds like a particularly lewd Greek.


I had a horrific night last night, goodness me. My wife had some sort of stomach bug over the weekend, presumably viral because she was sore, and I thought to myself yesterday that it appeared as though I avoided it.

No such luck. We had leftover Chinese food, I ate that and needed to go to the bathroom a few times for what I was expecting to be extra watery goodness, but nah. Then I had a big chug of water which was apparently 100% the wrong move and had a stupendously violent vomiting fit, but as that usually goes felt pretty good after it was done.

I usually stay up for a bit at night to look after our kid if he needs anything, but was just getting really sore, and went to bed at around 12.30am.

Between then and 2am, I got up four times for some more vomiting and pooping sessions, expelling less and less but also not being sure which end I might be expelling things from. The partially-digested Chinese food gave everything an oddly pleasant curry aroma.

The final session involved a great deal of dry heaving so I ended up just sitting on the toilet thinking “dude there is nothing left” before one of the big spasms resulted in a magnificent spray of diarrhea into the bowl, followed by vomiting out the last contents of my digestive system, some think yellow bile.

Spent the remainder of the night waking up frequently because I was dehydrated, worrying about not being able to keep water down, being unbelievably sore when I moved, and having hot and cold flashes.

0/10, would not recommend. I am glad today is my wife’s day off.

[McTraveller]

Headline from CNN on Jerome Powell testifying before Congress:

"Lawmakers want to know why inflation is still high despite big rate hikes."

What kind of confusion of ideas leads to such a question?  Are our leaders and their advisors really this uneducated or intentionally obtuse?

[Loud Whispers]

Sounds like a particularly lewd Greek.

“How beautiful the Kentaurides are, even where they are horses; for some grow out of white mares, others are attached to chestnut mares, and the coat’s of others are dappled, but they glisten like those of horses that are well cared for. There is also a white female Kentauroi that grows out of a black mare, and the very opposition of the colors helps to produce the united beauty of the whole.”

-Philostatus the Elder, predicting Monster Musume 2300 years in advance

[EuchreJack]

Headline from CNN on Jerome Powell testifying before Congress:

"Lawmakers want to know why inflation is still high despite big rate hikes."

What kind of confusion of ideas leads to such a question?  Are our leaders and their advisors really this uneducated or intentionally obtuse?

The answer is "yes"

[bloop_bleep]

Headline from CNN on Jerome Powell testifying before Congress:

"Lawmakers want to know why inflation is still high despite big rate hikes."

What kind of confusion of ideas leads to such a question?  Are our leaders and their advisors really this uneducated or intentionally obtuse?

Forgive me, not my forte, but doesn't it go higher interest rates -> less aggregate demand -> less inflation?

[hector13]

The idea is that people save more and borrow less, spending is meant to go down, and inflation eventually falls.

[McTraveller]

The problem is that view suffers from the “all else equal” fallacy. There are many variables and the Fed can only control one of them.

Basically it’s naively thinking that the money supply is the only degree of freedom controlling inflation. In reality there is at least one more, which is rate of production.

Put simply: if production falls as fast (or faster than) money supply, prices cannot fall and may increase.

In other words, if there isn’t enough competition in markets, or markets are captured, companies can intentionally reduce supply to keep prices high even if there is less demand.

I’d say interest rates aren’t working because there isn’t enough production…. but it’s a lot more difficult to ramp up production than it is to change an interest rate. And in some cases, high interest rates actually discourages new investment, because it raises the bar for rate of return on capital - if I can get 4% risk free in a savings account, why would I risk my cash trying to run a business?