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- Comment on 2 days ago:
Oof, I totally get the frustration of this person. I hate questionnaires because they often have logical fallacies or edge cases that they’ve missed. If it is a questionnaire about a systemic issue, I feel that it lacks complexity to see these edge cases. But if it is about a personal issue, it’s even worse because then my edge case isn’t even considered in the questionnaire.
- Comment on stages of mitosis 2 days ago:
I feel like this makes everything more confusing. You cannot really follow the hair pins through time because the person takes them out of their hair at one time and the alignment isn’t in the hair. And step 4 confuses what it says (the sister chromatides almost divided) with what it actually shows (the cells almost divided).
- Comment on spoopy figs 5 days ago:
Oh, you’re thinking of wasps like yellowjackets. “Fig wasp” uses the taxonomic term “wasp”. There are hundreds of thousands of parasitic wasp species out there that most people aren’t familiar with. Fig wasps are gall wasps and are really tiny! Like so small you can hardly see them by the naked eye. It is fascinating how so small beings can fly distances of many kilometers when they are only a millimeter in size.
- Comment on spoopy figs 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s true. Apparently even Aristotle has spoken about fig wasps (without really understanding what they are or do of course). And it seems like all fig trees are dependent on this kind of pollination.
- Comment on spoopy figs 1 week ago:
Yeah sure I’ll eat figs. You don’t eat the fig wasps as they have been eaten by the fig already. If I knew there was a fig wasp still inside, I wouldn’t eat it though.
- Comment on spoopy figs 1 week ago:
Yes exactly. They are both dependent on each other in that way.
And to add on to that, figs are super important food trees in the tropics, because they are the only trees that produce fruits all year around. (Because they have to, otherwise the fig wasp population couldn’t sustain itself.) So many animal species are also dependent on the steady food source of fig trees (btw most look very different from the common fig tree, Ficus carica).
- Comment on Dear Faith IX 1 week ago:
Oof, this whole email exchange reads super misogynistic, but this one here in particular! Poor Faith :(
- Comment on Dear Faith IX 1 week ago:
I think what that means is that both AI and language learners often use more formal language. If you are learning a new language you usually start by visiting classes or other formal and structured resources. But native speakers don’t actually use that idealized form of language very much. I guess that the training set of AI was mostly texts written in more formal language and/or that there isn’t a strong enough consistent bias for most informal language.
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 1 week ago:
Especially because most of the corn eaten in the rest of the Americas isn’t sweet at all. It’s more equivalent of rice, pasta, potatoes, etc…
- Comment on Final words revealed? 1 week ago:
Oooh, nice!!
- Comment on Diphalia 2 weeks ago:
Cool! And it mentions “Inside Nature’s Giants”!!
- Comment on PSA 1 month ago:
Ah yes, now I get it! Thanks :)
- Comment on PSA 1 month 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 1 month 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 month ago:
Wow, I loved this! Thanks for sharing <3
- Comment on Goldenrod 1 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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! 2 months 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. 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
Great text!!! Thanks :)
- Comment on Breed back better, or whatever Biden said 2 months 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) 2 months ago:
Wow, the Wikipedia article definitely is worth a read! This thing is over the top bad :O
- Comment on Choose your Nope Rope 2 months ago:
You’re probably right, yeah…
- Comment on Choose your Nope Rope 2 months 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. 2 months 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.