Damn, so that’s what it feels like to be left-handed…
Poor Jeremy
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Not having to worry about gender/sexuality (except asexuality I guess) in your dating pool and still failing
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Not all asexuals are sex repulsed, it just means not being sexually attracted to others either all the time or some of the time (unless preconditions are met in the case of demisexuals or grey-asexuals). Us ace-spec people can and do have sex if we aren’t always repulsed, just not always for attraction reasons.
Hope this makes sense and helps!
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
can’t just go and tell me I need to relearn words again!
/s thanks for the info!! Though it makes me sort of think that anyone who isn’t asexual are essentially all “sluts” by this definition (sexually attracted to everyone around them above some personally maintained arbitrary threshold of determining attractiveness??) but I will continue to try and care both more and less about the specificities of the terms and just continue to try to take pleasure in the fact that me knowing them (or trying to have learned them at least) might provide some sense of inclusion to someone down the road [that has experienced their sexual awakening in one of the myriad of different ways possible, rather than a way in which I somehow am already familiar with which in reality seems considerably unlikely for how young/antisocial I am, or have generally been, throughout my life so far], or possibly someday help me better explain my own feelings or experiences to someone else later on, who might also know about such nuances of sexual orientation, or have had similar experiences/feelings in their life but were lacking specific words for them
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Incnail
oascany@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Involuntary cnail
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
So this is why Gezebelle Gaburgably likes snails so much
trolololol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also Jeremy is an asshole because he eats all the cookies, and that makes everyone hate him.
Don’t be like Jeremy.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
this does cause speciation when they cant mate with a differently coiled snail, down the line.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I’d say "this could cause speciation. There is an astronomically slim chance of it occuring naturally if enough sinistral (lefty) snails meet and create a sustaining population (and also not die out through inbreeding). I don’t think there is a case of any chirally divided species. Maybe this once happened with Amphidromus inversus but presumably, the species have mutated since to be able to successfully mate both homo- and heterochirally. Now, a balanced population exists and hetero mating is more common.
However, as humans come into the picture and can find mirrored snails and purposefully put them together, and breed them in safety into a large population, speciation can indeed happen and the resulting mirrored snail can fulfil the same environmental niches as the original species while having an almost completely separate gene pool (only the mirror mutants of each species can cross-breed - and if my above theory is correct, the advantages of tapping into a new gene pool may have then how dextral/sinistral then-subspecies of Amphidromus inversus eventually acquired unique breedability).
funkajunk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t it depend on whether you are looking at the left or the right side of the shell?
fizzle@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
No, you’re thinking of clockwise vs counter clockwise.
As the shell spirals around itself, it does not create a flat disk. Rather, it creates a cone shape.
If Jeremy was pointed North, the point of his cone would point to the west, while most other snails would point east.
You can see it in the photo on this post.
starik@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
No, Jeremy’s left!
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
How is this a science meme
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Science because it’s a rare biological condition, called sinistral (as opposed to dextral) chirality.
Meme because it’s a funny and relatable thing on the internet.
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Using this loose logic, literally anything can be related to science and be called a science meme
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
The legendary clover eating Insnail
woodenghost@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
But all three seem to be coiling in the same direction? All tilt to the left side and coil clockwise.
axont@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
I think this species of snail is assymetrical, which means maybe their genitals are on the right side of their body. But a snail that coils like Jeremy has their symmetry flipped and their genitals are on the left. So Jeremy wouldn’t be able to reproduce with a typical right coiling snail because their organs don’t align. So yeah all three snails coil to the left because that’s a rare trait and needed for mating
woodenghost@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Okay, thanks
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
So snails can mate with any sex?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Snail sexes are clockwise, counterclockwise, and Jeremy
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I have the urge to print, frame and hang this comment on the wall.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Most terrestrial snails are hermaphrodites, so it’s more like they can only mate with their own sex. But it’s a bit more complicated than that; they typically produce sperm earlier than they produce egg cells, to discourage self-fertilisation, so you could argue they start male and end female.
archonet@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Careful, if the Republicans get wind of this they’ll start calling snails a woke, radical trans plot.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Youth to inject random new genes for testing and age to work with what’s tried and true …. Huh.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
Depends on the type of snail, there are male, female, hermaphroditic and parthenogenetic types. Since they wrote “his reproductive organs”, Jeremy is probably a hermaphroditic snail.
buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
What does this mean?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
they are hermaphrodites, so they mate with any other snail of the same species, and the same coiled shell.