flora_explora

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, now I get it! Thanks :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like something similar has been going on a few years ago as well (or maybe it’s an old post?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a valid term used by trans people to describe their own feelings (see the gender dysphoria bible for example) The other person must have gotten something mixed up…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a Furby!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I loved this! Thanks for sharing <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goldenrod⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use its Latin name, Solidago. How am I supposed to know what it is called in English when each other language also has its own name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Monoculture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s genetic monoculture then? Wouldn’t that be identical to just monoculture? Or is it having the same crop, but different genetic variants on the same field for multiple years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve taken many pictures of copulating insects and I always feel weird doing that. But for identification purposes it’s great…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly, it is still very different. Men fantasizing about sex bots is objectifying female bodies and taking control over them. That’s why it is so creepy. Women searching for a romantic partner in chat bots is actually subjectifying an inanimate thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On my phone I watch via the Grayjay app (I used newpipe before, but it wasn’t as reliable). If it asks me to login, I either use a VPN or watch YouTube in a Firefox-based browser with ublock. I haven’t seen ads since years…

  On my PC I also just use Firefox and ublock to watch without ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bears love oral⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least it follows the normal text flow and you can read from top to bottom (if you ignore the user names). Not like on xitter, where you have to jump from the middle to top to bottom…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Mug⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the second part of that sentence, but who would think that they discover universal truths or any truths at all? The whole premise of science is that we cannot verify anything or find any real truth. We can just show that anything else is much more unlikely to be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have to be orchidding me!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, have you not seen the OP or have ever looked at plant taxonomy before? There are many different angiosperm groups where it is dubious if we can apply some sort of species concept.

  And you talk about the species concept as if there was only just one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldo Leopold was right.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, I have the opposite feeling as well. In a heavily fragmented area without any primary forests left (Germany) I still find sooo many species that were invisible to me before I dared to look. I cannot imagine how it must have been before when humans hadn’t had such an impact on the ecosystem.

  But then I also notice how all of these species exist despite our influence. How they try to keep on living in our cities. And that’s indeed very sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok can't apologize. Grok isn't sentient. So why do headlines keep saying it did?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great text!!! Thanks :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breed back better, or whatever Biden said⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What isn’t iconic in nature though? Plants also have turned into similar looking herbs and shrubs over and over again. Or look at epiphytes! If there is an available niche it will get filled. And since plants all start with more or less the same basics, they fill it similarly. Evolution likes to repurpose stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨>:3)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, the Wikipedia article definitely is worth a read! This thing is over the top bad :O

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your Nope Rope⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re probably right, yeah…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your Nope Rope⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the Rod of Asclepius, not to be confused with the caduceus!

  There are various theories why this symbol was invented. The one that makes most sense to me is that it depicts a (formerly widespread) parasitic nematode being removed by wrapping it around a stick to slowly draw it out of the body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend of mine (from Palestine) taught me another trick with garlic: mince the garlic, then generously sprinkle it with coriander powder and mash it all together with a fork. Add to a dish (like a sauce or a stew) when it’s already mostly cooked, just at the end. It has a pretty intense flavor and is really yummy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contadont deny it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can anyone explain this to me? I cannot find anything searching for contadont :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ideal Beach Body⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this list of instructions on how to have a beach body best:

  • have a body
  • go to the beach
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️‍⚧️ eat shit transphobes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, plants really don’t have to deal with our binary bullshit. Most of them don’t have any sex because they have perfect flowers anyways, meaning their flowers have male and female gametes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun science fact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If Santa is the Queen, there needs to be some male drones impregnating him. It would make sense that the reindeer would fly to the freshly hatched Santas to mate with them. The sledge is only their form of wings then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wtf is that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a biologist, it is always surprising to me, how frequently people don’t realize that all plants in our environment have some sort of reproduction. Like, that grass also has flowers and all house plants would also flower (except for ferns) if they were growing under the right conditions. Plant blindness is real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latin names suck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just that this “robin” isn’t one, it actually is a thrush. A robin would be Erithacus. They are both in different families even (and also look pretty different).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your fighters, chat.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really dislike cultivars like this where they have been changed so much it doesn’t look like actual plants…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pika Pika⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Zarathustra kann mich mal :P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pika Pika⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean Pica pica?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pika Pika⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Confusingly, there is the animal in the post that is commonly called pika (Ochotona daurica). What I had to think of first was Pica pica though (the Eurasian magpie)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  South Korea actually has a major problem with sexism and gender-based violence. Especially with men secretly filming women! It doesn’t seem unlikely that the filming of the gynecologist clinic was done in secret as well. Just because something is illegal doesn’t mean it actually gets punished.

  There is also the larger context in which women experience daily sexism and violence. This fundamentally changes how they react to further violence. Victims of sexualized violence often think of themselves as responsible for the violence they receive, because society constantly tells them they are at fault! Victim blaming is part of society’s effort to tell women they are worthless and to keep control over them. If you solely focus on how the victims of this act of violence are at fault here, you are part of the problem.