Thank you America for growing your population so large. When climate change gets so bad that the dykes pop, we can just grab the nearest American to plug the hole and save humanity.
Plugs
Submitted 3 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
work for volcanic eruption too
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
We’ve been training with Taco Bell Diablo sauce for such an occasion.
Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I knew I was good for something
shasta@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Hey, dykes are people too. I have it on good authority that many of them like biking.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yeah, motorbiking ;)
DickFiasco@lemm.ee 3 days ago
If I’m ever reincarnated as a mole rat, I know I have guaranteed employment.
sk@forums.utsukta.org 3 days ago
This would be a very interesting paper to read! any citations?
Dave@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
Not OP, I couldn’t find a paper. Just this site that makes the same claim almost word for word, and cites a youtube video of a lecture at Stanford. I didn’t watch the video, but this seems best described as a “plausible” explanation rather than a proven fact.
sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Shit! That video is Robert Sapolsky’s lecture. I have something like an “intellectual” crush on him. He has done pioneering works in behavioural science, and at the intersection of human physiology and psychology. One of his books “Why Zebra’s Don’t Get Ulcers” is entirely on the various effects of psychological stress on the human body.
He observed the same group of baboons for 25 years to understand their behaviour. Each year he used to spend 4 months with this group and observe them for more than 8 hours a day. “A Primate’s Memoir” is another book on this. Recently he wrote “Behave”, on the deterministic nature of human behaviour, tracing “aggression” back to the evolutionary reasons.
sk@forums.utsukta.org 3 days ago
more like layman meme than science meme :P
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 days ago
story.fund/post/102912780522/naked-mole-rats Link to lecture at the bottom.
nulluser@programming.dev 2 days ago
I’ll believe it when Ze Frank does a True Facts video on it.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The more I read about them, the more I’m fascinated with how alien they seem to be to me. It’s either them or crabs as the ultimate form that everything would come to eventually. Maybe even molecrabs we are yet to discover.
phx@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Squid are pretty awesome too. More alien than crabs IMO as well.
Crabs are kinda like big tasty water-spiders.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think octopus are the most awesome animals on the planet, beating crows for the title.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Do you have some links or recs to drop for me and others about squids? That’d be sweet.
olutukko@lemmy.world 2 days ago
apparently this is a myth. thats too bad
DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 days ago
TIL, thx
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Is this why grandma wants to stuff me with food every time I visit her?
moody@lemmings.world 3 days ago
She knows that if anyone wants to get to her, they have to go through you, and the bigger you are, the harder it is.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 days ago
So that’s what butt plugs are
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Also both are probably covered in mud when you pull them out.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Holy molé
Poogona@hexbear.net 2 days ago
Naked mole rats are considered an example of a truly “eusocial” mammal analogue to ants. More evidence for the idea that social behavior/societal grouping, once established in a species, characterizes it more potently than just about anything else in its genetic history. Chimps might be our closest genetic relatives, but the way we live and think is probably much more similar to these guys.
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
#lifegoals
✌️🖖MrGerrit@feddit.nl 3 days ago
My spirit animal.
tacosplease@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thank your plug
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I thought it was going to say in the rainy season they eat them.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
olutukko@lemmy.world 2 days ago
so this is why so many american are overweight and lot of politicians are climate change deniers…
ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 days ago
🎵 I see you baby… 🎵
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
🎵 I like big butts and I cannot lie 🎵
Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 3 days ago
They’re turning into rats
D61@hexbear.net 3 days ago
That Feeling When: You talk about butt plugs to a naked mole rat and it looks at you in total confusion.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Various ant species do a similar thing where their soldiers have really big, flat heads and when their nest gets attacked, the soldiers stick their head into the entrance way, so the attackers can’t come inside.
Apparently, this kind of behaviour is referred to as phragmosis.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They also drop a cool shield in Elden Ring.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Also Cork Lid Trapdoor Spiders