GreatTitEnthusiast
@GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz
- Comment on Evidence 2 weeks ago:
The boomers in my life are starting to come around with it but they believe and combination of
- it’s not man made
- it won’t be as bad as people say/we can’t know the future
- green tech like electric vehicles are too expensive
The first two are frustrating but don’t really matter if we can engineer our way out of three. My dad got solar panels because they would pay for themselves eventually. I’m not saying we can just green tech our way out of the climate crisis but if green tech gets good enough it will go a LONG way
These are just anecdotes from interacting with my family. Your mileage may vary
- Comment on Ant Societies Rose by Trading Individual Protection for Collective Power | Department of Entomology | University of Maryland 2 weeks ago:
“You have nothing to lose but your chains” ~ Ant Carl Marx
- Comment on Hair trade offer 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, that’s a good explanation
- Comment on Hair trade offer 5 weeks ago:
While it’s not a good trade you’d rather have gray hair if it meant you didn’t get melanoma
- Comment on Pika Pika 1 month ago:
Hey, I’m just hear because I heard climate change is threatening Great Tits
- Comment on Pika Pika 1 month ago:
- Comment on Save the Tits! 1 month ago:
Oh shit
- Comment on Labcoat! 1 month ago:
This is just regular lab safety
- Comment on Edible Wood 2 months ago:
- Comment on Relativity 2 months ago:
- Comment on observes your slit 4 months ago:
It was trying to be hard sci-fi but… It’s still a bit magical
- Comment on observes your slit 4 months ago:
The book The Quantum Magician makes this mistake
The protagonist has a quantum brain and to use it they have to turn off their consciousness in order to not collapse the superposition. I face palmed whenever they mentioned it
- Comment on LYING TO CHILDREN 4 months ago:
- Comment on Magic Rocks 5 months ago:
That book sounds wonderful. My local library has it through Libby
- Comment on Name him. 5 months ago:
Muk Schumer*
- Comment on yep that's me 5 months ago:
Are all those black dots ticks?
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 months ago:
Look I get you but points at gums I need dentures
- Comment on [DeliberatelyBuried] Ratatouille 8 months ago:
I’ve been dealing with dry eye and they’ve gone a little crazy on my eyes. My eye doctor actually had to give me eye drops to clear them up a bit
The little crusties you get when you sleep. Got so bad that I couldn’t open my eyes in the morning
Since taking eye drops to clear out the demodex and doing a bunch of eye hygiene, I now have almost no crusties in the morning
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 8 months ago:
It’s kind of both
The pollin isn’t the jizz but it produces the jizz
- Comment on What else are they hiding from us? 8 months ago:
Can people please realize that saying Idiocracy is a documentary is agreeing with eugenicists
- Comment on use it on strangers 8 months ago:
The point is to get people excited so they can get funding to keep developing the technologies that will make this kind of genetic engineering commercially viable
- Comment on I ❤️ birbs 10 months ago:
Awesome! I love the Great Tit!
- Comment on I got plans this weekend. 11 months ago:
Found the novelization
- Comment on Trump and Republicans Cannot Stop Electric Vehicles, Experts Say 11 months ago:
I’m confused, why would he want to? He and Elon are tight again
- Comment on skull crushers 1 year ago:
That’s pretty metal, not gonna lie
- Comment on pew pew 1 year ago:
I’m not sure what you mean by “advanced” but they’re really not
An Immense World by Ed Yong had a section on Mantis Shrimp and while their fascinating creatures with a really interesting vision system, their color perception isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
I’m reciting this from memory so if anyone knows better please correct me:
Mantis Shrimp have compound eyes with three sections: 1) the main section detects movement and is what they primarily use to see 2) the second section detects color. When the shrimp detects movement it will look at whatever it was with it’s color detecting section to determine if it’s prey or predator. This is a whole separate section of the eye and is unlike how ours function. The reason why the shrimp has so many detectors is because, unlike our eyes, the shrimps eyes don’t combine different color receptors to see color. The book likened it to a bar code scanner that uses the presence of certain color combinations to detect what’s there 3) one really neat thing the mantis Shrimp can do is see spiralized polarized light. We cannot see polarized light but there’s a lot of b polarized light under the ocean so seeing it is fairly common. What’s NOT common is polarized light that travels as a spiral. Mantis Shrimp seem to have evolved the ability to create spiralized polarized light and use it to communicate. As far as we know no other animal can make or see it.
- Comment on True Love 1 year ago:
Literally me
- Comment on Habits of Insects 1 year ago:
In addition, government research in the sciences is miniscule. You could cut ALL of science funding and be no where close to the 1 trillion that Musk claims he’ll be able to reduce the budget by
- Comment on Synthesize deez nutz 1 year ago:
In 10-15 years people will be nastalgic for Fortnight the way people are nostalgic for Xbox 360 halo
- Comment on Sad and Lonely 1 year ago:
And a Creationist!