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- Comment on do what you love 1 week ago:
And it’s entirely the tech companies making their own bed and then laying in it. In the few jurisdictions where the engineering regulatory colleges won out in protecting their title, there’s a slough of highly qualified Professional Software Engineers who’ve graduated from accredited programs alongside the people who grad from more theory-based compsci programs
- Comment on project paperclip be like 1 week ago:
They were effective anti-communists. Same reason after the War the US cuddled up with the essentially fascist regimes of Salazar and Franco.
- Comment on Ideal car 1 week ago:
Use the cyrillic letter А on your licence plate instead of the latin letter A. All your speeding tickets would be mailed to someone else
- Comment on number box o number box 1 week ago:
*a subtype of vector
vector is a type not a kind :P
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Broke: Whales are fish because they look like other fish Woke: Whales aren’t fish because they’re in the class Mammalia, not Pisces Bespoke: Whales are fish any monophyletic group that encompasses all the fishes must also include the clade Tetrapoda Artichoke: Whales aren’t fish because fishes are a paraphyletic group that includes the entire clade Vertebrata at the exclusion of the clade Tetrapoda. Stick and Poke: Whales are fish because they’ve developed the same bodyplan and are in the same ecological niche as the pelagic fishes.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 1 week ago:
Osoviakhim was somewhat more ideologically consistent than Paperclip. The scientists weren’t invited to the USSR with promises of cushy jobs and immunity from prosecution: they were forced from their homes, loaded onto freight trains, and made to work. It was part of the wider trend of the Allies using the forced labour of Germans as a means of war reparations.
- Comment on Don't we all? 5 weeks ago:
Either the image is an accurate facsimile (DNA was wrong and the guy’s wearing a men’s size shirt (buttons are on his right side)) or the image was mirrored (DNA was correct and the guy’s wearing a women’s size shirt (buttons are on his left))
- Comment on me irl 1 month ago:
there’s a myriad of phrases like that
- Comment on they have played us for absolute fools 2 months ago:
understands that models are just useful lies
uses a lie that’s not all that useful
- Comment on Nestin, nexin, nesprin, nectin, nephrin, netrin... 2 months ago:
idk some are pretty easy. like MAP kinase kinase kinase kinases phosphorylate MAP kinase kinase kinases, it’s right in the name
- Comment on Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔 2 months ago:
Leaves evolved more times if you include blades of algae
- Comment on straight sluggin 2 months ago:
Yeah I’ve seen 'em eating dead slugs
- Comment on straight sluggin 2 months ago:
Most are yellow but they can be more tannish, white, or brown. Pacific banana slugs also often have black or dark brown spots (they look like overripe bananas) that can cover their entire body to make them black. Pacific banana slugs are usually less bright than California banana slugs too The yellow is likely warning colouration: their slime has an anesthetic that numbs the tongue.
- Comment on he big, he attac 3 months ago:
Marbled crayfish are pretty cool. A new species that evolved in captivity
- Comment on Cardinals most likely to be the pope 3 months ago:
Ain’t no rule says the bird can’t be pope.
- Comment on froot loops 4 months ago:
what would you look like without a jaw?
- Comment on woolly mice is bioweapon 4 months ago:
He intentionally dodged ethical review and the law, the consent forms he had the parents’ sign obfuscated the nature of the treatment, the experimental treatment offered no benefit over the currently used treatment to prevent HIV transmission from the father (sperm washing), the parents likely only agreed because the law prevented them from having biological children (IVF isn’t available to HIV+ patients in China), the high risk of modifying non-target genes was well known, and the gene he introduced is believed to be linked to neurological differences.
- Comment on meow >:) 4 months ago:
…are we sure he’s not doing any more human germ line gene editing without ethical approval or patient consent?
- Comment on Safe dating tips 4 months ago:
The upper row is from the EU’s Directive 67/548/EEC which has since been replaced with the international GHS (oddly enough a UN standard instead of ISO). The lower ones are in fact the DOT symbols from the US rather than the very similar GHS transport symbols. No idea where this figure showing EU-specific hazards for containers and US-specific hazards for transport together would’ve come from.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 4 months ago:
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 4 months ago:
A dogwhistle for “the Jews”
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- Comment on CONTAM 5 months ago:
Inadvertent eDNA research
- Comment on sussvival instinct 5 months ago:
No actually. If you consider the plants to be Archaeplastida (glaucophytes, red algae, and Viridiplantae) or Viridiplantae (the green algae including Embryophyta) then the common plant ancestor is unicellular (greens and reds evolved multicellularity independently). If you consider the plants to just be Embryophyta (the land plants) then they already had highly specialized cells and looked plant-like before they split off from the rest of the green algae.
I’m not sure if the fungal common ancestor is believed to have been unicellular or multicellular but if it was multicellular then it would’ve been filamentous like modern multicellular fungi, rather than a sheet of cells
- Comment on sussvival instinct 5 months ago:
Fun fact: Animal embryos can be disassociated by depriving them of calcium (E-cadherin, the molecular that holds the cells together, needs to calcium to work) and then can be allowed to reassociate by adding back calcium. If you do this in early enough stages then the embryo will function and develop normally once reaggregated
- Comment on sussvival instinct 5 months ago:
Early animals were likely very similar to Trichoplax, but there weren’t Trichoplax. Trichoplax adherins is a modern species with just as many millions of years of evolution between it and the first animal as between us and the first animal. Just bugs me when people end up implying that orthogenisis is real
- Comment on sussvival instinct 5 months ago:
I think you misread wikipedia when it talks about its endosymbioses. Whole bacteria are found within an organlle (the endoplasmic reticulum) of Trichoplaxs.
That being said what you described does happen in a number of organisms (including ‘complex’ ones like nudibranchs). They steal the chloroplasts from the algae they eat in a process called kleptoplasty. Seeing as mitochondria and chloroplasts originated as endosymbionts that were then heavily integrated into their hosts, calling kleptoplasty a form of symbiosis isn’t that unusual.
- Comment on It's not up for debate! 5 months ago:
Crabs are people!
- Comment on it really do be like that 5 months ago:
It’s the habitual be, a seperate tense in Black American English
- Comment on Please answer. 5 months ago:
vanilla
