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[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 146 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Mammals use boob-juice to raise their offspring. That's why they are called that.

As opposed to e.g. birds that don't use boob-juice and instead elect to vomit in their offspring's ingestion orifices.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 79 points 5 months ago

Ironically, birds also have a non-zero chance to be called "tits", "boobies" or some such equivalent. Whoever named those must have been very proud of being a mammal and wanted to rub it in for those poor birds

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Now I'm conflicted. Boobs are great but at what cost?

[–] variants@possumpat.io 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

We need boob v2, where you can chew a thing and boob out the vomit

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago

Nah boobs are great the way they are, adjust your interface program

[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t… isn’t that basically how it works?

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

I think he means doing it voluntarily. Like, you can shoot out milk at someone by your own will

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] deus@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Not having to feed our offspring vomit?

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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i legit had to search whether whales and dolphins had them, and I'm shocked.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sea lions have retractable nipples. Let that sink in.

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Should I let it sink in just like the sea lions do with their nipples?

Also, the platypus doesn't have nipples. It sweats milk.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Memes are the breast way to find out about this.

[–] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Memes are literally the breasts in my language (Turkish)!

[–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 42 points 5 months ago

All hail the tits

[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know you think this set of boobs is important now, but those boobs will be replaced by another set of boobs. Boobs will come and go. And then, someday, you'll meet a pair of boobs that you want to marry. And those become the boobs that matter the most.

[–] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 months ago
[–] chetradley@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Flat earth? Nah I know the truth

Boob Earth

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait... So can you milk a dolphin?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (9 children)

No, but they do produce milk.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Wasn't there some marine scientist that got in trouble for milking dolphins?

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago

Maybe he went for the males

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

maybe that was a euphemism

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, NASA paid to fund research to communicate with dolphins, and it led to jerking off one of the adolescents so he'd be able to concentrate on the lessons better. Also there was LSD in there for a bit. When the project lost funding the dolphin was moved to an inadequate facility so he got depressed and offed himself.

The 60s was a hell of a time for sciencing stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything.

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[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Freud shouldn't have focused so much on penis envy but more on boob envy?

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's boob comfort, not envy though.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Have you not met women? Boob envy affects a large percentage of humans

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

✋ I am male and I envy boobs

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Freud claims penis envy in girls though, so it's on top of the common envy among boys. I've never met a boy envious of boobs though.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've never met a boy envious of boobs though.

I suspect I move in gayer circles than you. There are certainly boys and men who envy boobs

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago

This factoid is tits.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As a fan of boobs, I appreciate this.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I too enjoy boobs. So refreshing to meet a fellow enthusiast.

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 months ago

I fucking hate Tumblr users

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In Polish the word for "mammals" is "ssaki" which comes from "ssać" which means "to suck". So we are all suckers in Polish.

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's called the milky way because of Heracles since he bit his mom's tit so hard the milk sprayed all over the sky.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is what Wikipedia has to say about it:

In Greek mythology, Zeus places his son born by a mortal woman, the infant Heracles, on Hera's breast while she is asleep so the baby will drink her divine milk and become immortal. Hera wakes up while breastfeeding and then realizes she is nursing an unknown baby: she pushes the baby away, some of her milk spills, and it produces the band of light known as the Milky Way. In another Greek story, the abandoned Heracles is given by Athena to Hera for feeding, but Heracles' forcefulness causes Hera to rip him from her breast in pain.

That Zeus. He’s such a character. Not only does he sleep around on Hera (you know, his ~~sister~~ wife), but then surreptitiously tries to get Hera to breast-feed his bastard son. But I digress…

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I feel this deserves more attention. Not only is the Milky Way named for literal milk; it is named for specifically for human milk.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well, until very recently anybody who was not born with a desire for milk and sucking tits didn't last long enough to reproduce.

So a bit of a tit obcession is understandable.

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ass lovers in absolute shambles right now. I guess they'll always have <3 (the heart symbol portrays an ass, or so I've heard)

[–] THE_STORM_BLADE@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The heart is boobs too, sorry.

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[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As a Greek, I feel that I have been ~~called~~ summoned.

[–] Andonyx@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Ga-lactic is where we get lactic!

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

I always have some doubts when I read in a Brick "Fresh Milk from certified Farmers"

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

It is admittedly pretty weird that a whole group of species developed a baby-juice organ that is only used by the females to feed only the young babies.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

What is up, my mammals?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

~~we are starstuff~~ we are universe milk

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