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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Boob out lmao

Edit. That’s what boobs currently do. They just boob out one thing tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Not having to feed our offspring vomit?

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

High rates of cancer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sea lions have retractable nipples. Let that sink in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.