flora_explora
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- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 day ago:
Spielberg told Lucas he was interested in making a James Bond film, but Lucas pitched him of an idea “better than James Bond”, outlining the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Well, growing up in Germany with all my grandarents being more on the nazi side of WWII, I feel like the US idea of getting rid of nazis is that you just have to fight them like in WWII. It didn’t work though. German society and politics was still very much made up of nazis afterwards. Sure, they got taken the power to act upon their ideology in the same way as before. What you need is a systemic change where fascist ideas don’t have any space anymore, where emancipatory ideas can grow and where people are liberated in who they are and what they think. But the issue is, misogyny and racism like portrayed by the Indiana Jones movies are strictly opposed to emancipatory struggles. Giving discriminatory ideas like these too much space will again lead to more fascist tendencies. My point is, it isn’t always black and white, nazi or not nazi. I have no idea if my grandparents were all nazis. They were just kids brainwashed into this ideology. My granddad fought in the Wehrmacht against the allies, but he was just 17. It is easy to say “punch nazis” or “kill nazis”. But unless you have a clear cut enemy like in a political party or an opposing army, this gets messy pretty quickly.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 2 days ago:
Why do you choose to see Jones in the context of the 1930s? It is character based on the values of the 80s and onward. On top of being misogynistic, the character of Indiana Jones is also being the white hero playing into many racist tropes. So using Jones as this Nazi fighting hero doesn’t work even on the most basic level. Again, I’m all for punching Nazis, but we should choose better heroes or even better: no heroes at all!
- Comment on unleash your humanities 3 days ago:
Though the character of Indiana Jones or Harrison Ford as a person aren’t really worth to aspire to. Sure, the nazi punching part is great but being a sexist piece of shit isn’t…
- Comment on Fossils on Fossils 1 week ago:
If you like fun but also well-researched stories about people living in pre-modern times, you might also enjoy the weird medieval guys podcast :) They actually did an episode on fossils recently. Another funny story they mention is the one of Johann Beringer’s “Lying Stones”.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 week ago:
While I agree with the first part of what you said, I don’t think the longterm solution is to call out individuals and make their lives horrible. It sure is a good way to maybe deter a few people from doing those misogynistic things. But what we need is actual structural change. It shouldn’t be possible these people to do such things in the first place without being sanctioned. And we should educate people more on feminism and intersectional struggles in general.
- Comment on TRUE AND REAL 1 week ago:
You still got it mixed up a bit though. There is no “normal” respiration, cells use both types of respiration all the time.
Maybe you could link an article or a study where you’ve hear about this cancer connection? Would be curious what’s behind it.
- Comment on TRUE AND REAL 1 week ago:
Your first sentence is wrong (the mitochondria’s primary function is to generate ATP, which then gets transported to elsewhere where its stored energy is used). And your second sentence is confusing. With “broken ATP” you mean ADP? Or broken ATP synthesis? The point of this alternative oxidase pathway is producing some ATP, but inefficiently. And it produces also heat, because of its inefficiency (not all the energy stored in the sugars can be turned into chemically stored energy so it also produces heat energy. Think traditional light bulb). This heat is then used in the inflorescences of some aroids.
- Comment on TRUE AND REAL 1 week ago:
Isn’t this just the normal functions of mitochondria in organisms irrespective of kingdom? They burn sugars (in aerobic respiration using oxygen) to produce ATP. ATP can then be used elsewhere in the body as an energy reserve. Animals do it and plants do it. The difference here might rather be that they don’t convert the sugars into ATP but rather use the thermic energy of the reaction to produce heat instead of ATP?
- Comment on genotype rarity: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1 week ago:
Well, the child is three years old and certainly has no concept of gender/sex. So how why is someone apparently assigning gender and sex to this child? Why not just keep it neutral? Especially in context of forced gender and sex assignations as well as intersex child mutilations. Shouldn’t we be much more careful in this context not to force our biases and weird ideas of gender/sex onto children?!
- Comment on genotype rarity: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1 week ago:
Interesting how they call this child a “boy” if the karyotype and genitalia are so ambiguous. Like, why???
- Comment on TRUE AND REAL 1 week ago:
This got me interested too and apparently aroids as a family are specialized on doing this.
In lieu of their normal metabolic pathway, which ends in the production of ATP, the mitochondria switch over to a pathway called the “Alternative Oxidase Metabolic Pathway.” When this happens, the mitochondria start burning sugars using oxygen as a fuel source. This form of respiration produces heat.
- Comment on this is a meme about me 2 weeks ago:
Well, duh, I obviously learned LaTeX only to be less productive and procrastinate more. And when I was getting somewhere with it, I had to switch to RMarkdown instead to be able to procrastinate even more! Imagine actually having to think about the content of your work, ugh :/
- Comment on cilanto 🌿 4 weeks ago:
If you want to know more about this (because in reality it is a bit more complicated) MinuteFood explains it pretty well in this video.
- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, I misread your question. Yes, google maps shows “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in Europe as well :(
- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 4 weeks ago:
No, it shows Gulf of Mexico. The commenter just wanted to give some good alternatives that people could use!
- Comment on A daunting realization 5 weeks ago:
I misread, thanks for clarifying :)
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on A daunting realization 5 weeks ago:
What? Why does no one in the comments mention that plants don’t decompose dead bodies? This statement is just utterly wrong.
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 5 weeks ago:
Well, that is pretty much US defaultism. I’m not from the US and was talking about academia on an international level.
Your example again just shows how the structure, i.e. the universities working under capitalist logic, are the problem. This doesn’t mean that academics necessarily agree with this change in politics.
I get why you have such a fatalistic view and I agree with your statements about the fascist takeover :(
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 5 weeks ago:
Not sure if this would impact academia all that much since those “pompous” scholars are just a tiny minority. I don’t think academia’s problem lies in individuals being problematic anyways but rather on a structural level. Egoistic, shortsighted and competitive behavior is strongly incentivized. And people that don’t fit that mold get burned out pretty quickly. I think opposite to your argument it is rather an indication of how good human nature can be that academia is still working on such a collaborative and communicative basis despite capitalist and neoliberal pressures.
- Comment on The Proposal 1 month ago:
I’m in love with both, too ❤️
- Comment on Say it. 1 month ago:
Haha, my favorite crochet youtuber Complicated Knots made a series of videos on “Bugsmas” (for Christmas) last year. She included in her bugs such things as bees or beetles, but also a snail and a velvet worm. No hemipterans were included though. But following your definition, all those above could be bugs because they are terrestrial.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 month ago:
The Chinese gaming market is gigantic though and their 500 million gamers certainly need good internet.
- Comment on Aardwoof 1 month ago:
Interesting, isn’t ard also ground/earth in Arabic? Maybe one of those words that made into the indo-german languages by the Arabic conquest?
- Comment on It's real. 1 month ago:
Same :'(
- Comment on sometimes it be like that 1 month ago:
Nah, if you are an actual researcher dealing with hundreds of species you hardly now the common names (if the taxa even have common names, which most don’t!). Also, working in a diverse international environment like the research community means that knowing only common names won’t get you anywhere. It is very much necessary for you to know scientific names to be able to communicate with others.
I know many the scientific names of taxa from completely different kingdoms than my own research because I’ve been talking with other researchers about their field of study.
- Comment on moms rule 1 month ago:
Humanity isn’t progressing uniformly forward like this. Lgbtqia+ people were considered normal part of society by various cultures. Also Magnus Hirschfeld was an advocate for lgbtqia+ people a hundred years ago. Slavery has been transformed into modern slavery because the western world has found other, more concealed ways to force people into labor. Ideas may die out, but they will pop into people’s head again and again.
- Comment on ScIence 2 months ago:
Imagine confusing ronto and ronaa and accidentally shifting a ronaameter instead :P
- Comment on Free Spot! 2 months ago:
Ah OK, thanks for the context :)
- Comment on vibes-based astrophysics 2 months ago:
Yes, I see your point and agree :)