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Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law::Popular online adult film sites in Texas are posting health warnings about watching porn, despite the fact a law requiring them to do so was blocked in August.

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[โ€“] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

those beetles that have sex with beer bottles because they're brown and perfectly glossy like an ideal mate.

Um. What?

[โ€“] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are things every mating creatures brain is hard wired to look for, as signals of a healthy and breedable mate

Like the caricatures of sexual perfection in porn, the brown beer bottle happens to be the anime girl of a species of beetle whose males will regularly get carried away trying to reproduce with manufactured human garbage creating an actual risk to the species

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152