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- Comment on fragile masculinity 3 days ago:
Plus aroids and other trending plants, because then there is an economic status attached to it and you can compete with others who has the more valuable plant
- Comment on do no harm 5 days ago:
Good idea, this actually makes more sense!
- Comment on Research shows research is the leading cause of research 6 days ago:
We’ve had research on research for decades. I don’t get the meme :|
- Comment on this gift stinks 1 week ago:
Indeed, their fruits stink a lot!
- Comment on same, honestly 1 week ago:
Not only that, but probably a lot more animals are stressed out by them. They just reported on the bears because they studied their response. But we should generally come up with guidelines or rules when or if people are allowed to fly drones in nature.
- Comment on Critical Support 1 week ago:
Cute!!
- Comment on Edible Wood 1 week ago:
That’s an extremely fast-growing monocot though without the ability of secondary growth and therefore with a much lower lignin content.
- Comment on Edible Wood 1 week ago:
The next paragraph adds the explanation, why its wood is edible:
Although most wood is indigestible to humans due to the high lignin content, the yacaratiá tree is only around 10% cellulose while the rest is mostly water with very little lignin content. Unlike most plants, cells of this tree contain large spaces within their walls which store water.
It is in the Caricaceae (Papaya family) and apparently a pioneer species just like Papaya. No wonder it is mostly water and hardly any lignin!
- Comment on Treat 2 weeks ago:
So it’s making fun of the Lombards??
- Comment on Sloe Down 2 weeks ago:
If you search Wikipedia for plum, it is quite clear that there are various species of plants that have been domesticated and that are considered plums.
Plums are likely to have been one of the first fruits domesticated by humans. Three of the most abundantly cultivated species are not found in the wild, only around human settlements: Prunus domestica has been traced to East European and Caucasian mountains, while Prunus salicina and Prunus simonii originated in China.
What the meme is referring to is probably Prunus domestica though, where Wikipedia has to say this about:
The species’ hybrid parentage was believed to be Prunus spinosa and P. cerasifera; however, recent cytogenetic evidence seem to implicate 2×, 4×, 6× P. cerasifera as the sole wild stock from which the cultivated 6× P. domestica could have evolved.
The other two mentioned species seem to have been species that we’ve domesticated on their own, without hybridization. At least there is no mention of it on Wikipedia.
- Comment on Sloe Down 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia says this about P. spinosa (sloe)
Uses The shrub, with its long, sharp thorns, is traditionally used in Britain and other parts of northern Europe to make a cattle-proof hedge.
The fruit is similar to a small damson or plum, suitable for preserves, but rather tart and astringent for eating fresh unless it is picked after the first few days of autumn frost. This effect can be reproduced by freezing harvested sloes.
Since the plant is hardy, and grows in a wide range of conditions, it is used as a rootstock for many other species of plum, as well as some other fruit species.
I’ve made some Schnaps out of sloes before, but there is not much more you can do with the fruits. Like Wikipedia says it, this species is rather used for its quality as a hedge and as a rootstock. So not sure if one would regard it as domesticated, but we certainly didn’t domesticate the fruits into being tasty.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 3 weeks ago:
Yes and it is very important to constantly remind ourselves that all our abstractions and classifications are just that. Helpful tools for us to view and understand the world. People tend to forget that and over time see their categorization as essential and natural. For example, sex and gender are both socially constructed but people forget that and then create a whole set of rules around it to reinforce that categorization including social stigmatization and infant mutilation.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t generally true for eukaryotes either. In plants, hybridization is a huge thing and also polyploidy. So for some groups of plants we struggle to put them in neat boxes as well.
And zooming out to a larger view on taxonomy, plant taxonomy has seen some huge changes in the last decades with the various APG (angiosperm phylogeny group) publishings rearranging many if not most orders, families and genera of angiosperm plants.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 3 weeks ago:
Even for anything else, it actually is. Taxonomy is our construct that we came up with as a society to classify life. We cannot ever be “right” about it, it can just be more or less useful for us to understand life.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 3 weeks ago:
How is this the temperate zone?? You know how the internet works?
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 3 weeks ago:
You mean, we apply plant language to them so they are also like plants? They are closer related to us though…
- Comment on It's true... 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing, otherwise I wouldn’t even have thought of this. It’s so infuriating :(
- Comment on It's true... 4 weeks ago:
Severe obesity (body weight over 200 lbs.) or severe wasting
Wait what? I converted 200 lbs to kg and it should be equal 90 kg. This isn’t severely obese. I weigh much more and do stuff like bouldering.
Anyways, doesn’t even matter because it is important to also train on fat bodies. Because otherwise we face the same problems medicine has with ignoring female and black bodies. Most studies have just been on white, able-bodied male bodies. To actually treat all bodies with the best care, medical professionals should be trained on all types of bodies!
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 5 weeks ago:
Wait what? Clovers are a species of Trifolium in the Fabaceae (legume family), but sorrel refers to the leaves of Rumex species in the Polygonaceae. What are you referring to?
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 5 weeks ago:
Apiaceae are generally very hard to tell apart. Sure, the common hogweed is relatively easy to ID if you know the plant well enough. But there are sooo many species in this family that all have small white flowers and similar looking leaves…
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 5 weeks ago:
Natural cave systems don’t have as many animals in them either, because there are just not enough nutrients around for larger populations to establish. (Exceptions are to this are caves where birds or bats nest in large colonies and there you can find huge populations of other animals feeding on the feces for example.)
I don’t think the spiders necessarily feed on pillbugs though. At least I haven’t observed that yet. I’d think spiders would either feed on other spiders or on any flying insects getting in the garage.
Oh and something new I’ve learned from Wikipedia about pillbugs:
They have also been observed eating wood supports in houses, making them a house pest.
Maybe check for that if there are so many in your garage?
- Comment on Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? 5 weeks ago:
Well, the point of the article is that the selling point of a framework laptop lies only in its ethical and political nature. Without it, it’s just an overprized computer. So if framework loses its ethical selling point by associating itself with right-wing projects, why shouldn’t people buy a Lenovo laptop with better specs for less money instead?
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 5 weeks ago:
Believe me, there are many other animals, you just don’t see them ;)
- Comment on Just hear me out 5 weeks ago:
Still an ugly plant imo…
- Comment on I'm so ready. 5 weeks ago:
I mean, who said you have to watch it on apple’s streaming service. The pirated stream is just to clicks away anyways…
- Comment on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says 5 weeks ago:
You did not get what I was saying at all. Fundamentally, we agree on this and believe me, I’m just as frustrated as you with people blindly following these big tech companies. I’m just trying to say we should be more friendly to people who are not yet technically proficient. I experience it in my day to day life all the time that people choose comfort over their own freedom/their own rights. If I were just to call them stupid, this would just build up resentment and would only really benefit me to feel superior. Instead, I try to educate them about how big tech harms everyone and what alternatives there are. I’ve had years of practice being vegan and having to constantly maneuver situations where people would get mad at me for sticking to my principles. I feel like this is something similar, sticking to the principle of not giving in to the comfort of big tech.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 5 weeks ago:
Adding to what the others have said: I think Hossenfelder is also an example of chasing YouTube popularity. And apparently many people are really into this anti-science, right-wing stuff. It probably also aligns somehow with her own values, but I’m pretty confident that this is beneficial to her streaming business.
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 5 weeks ago:
Your garage is basically like a natural cave and there are some species adapted to live in caves, such as various species of pillbugs, spiders, millipedes, … The isopod living in garages are mostly scavengers/detritivores, meaning they mainly eat dead or dying animals falling into your garage or other organic material they can find. They basically clean up for you.
- Comment on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says 5 weeks ago:
Of course everyone should try to be safe online and we should try to give anyone the ability to protect themselves. Shaming individuals will actively prevent people from being educated. The issue at hand is about the business practices and security standards of discord, not individual people. I get that in this bleak capitalist system, neither discord nor any other company has the incentive to care about people. But it’s their responsibility nonetheless. Despite the economic system we live in constantly pressuring us to compete with each other, we should not give in but be empathetic with and help each other.
- Comment on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says 5 weeks ago:
It’s not about the individual behavior though and shaming someone for this doesn’t change anything. If you have a wildly popular social media network, thousands/millions of people will provide their ID if requested. This is all on Discord for not keeping the IDs safe and for asking for them in the first place.