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 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Vilian@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
work for volcanic eruption too
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
We’ve been training with Taco Bell Diablo sauce for such an occasion.
Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I knew I was good for something
shasta@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Hey, dykes are people too. I have it on good authority that many of them like biking.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah, motorbiking ;)
DickFiasco@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If I’m ever reincarnated as a mole rat, I know I have guaranteed employment.
sk@forums.utsukta.org 10 months ago
This would be a very interesting paper to read! any citations?
Dave@lemmy.nz 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
more like layman meme than science meme :P
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
story.fund/post/102912780522/naked-mole-rats Link to lecture at the bottom.
nulluser@programming.dev 10 months ago
I’ll believe it when Ze Frank does a True Facts video on it.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months ago
Squid are pretty awesome too. More alien than crabs IMO as well.
Crabs are kinda like big tasty water-spiders.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think octopus are the most awesome animals on the planet, beating crows for the title.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Do you have some links or recs to drop for me and others about squids? That’d be sweet.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TIL, thx
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is this why grandma wants to stuff me with food every time I visit her?
moody@lemmings.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
So that’s what butt plugs are
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also both are probably covered in mud when you pull them out.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Holy molé
olutukko@lemmy.world 10 months ago
apparently this is a myth. thats too bad
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
#lifegoals✌️🖖Poogona@hexbear.net 10 months 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.
MrGerrit@feddit.nl 10 months ago
My spirit animal.
tacosplease@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thank your plug
jaybone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I thought it was going to say in the rainy season they eat them.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 10 months ago
They’re turning into rats
ace_garp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
🎵 I see you baby… 🎵
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
🎵 I like big butts and I cannot lie 🎵
olutukko@lemmy.world 10 months ago
so this is why so many american are overweight and lot of politicians are climate change deniers…
D61@hexbear.net 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
They also drop a cool shield in Elden Ring.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Also Cork Lid Trapdoor Spiders