bryophile

@bryophile@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ray is basic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We are more of a symbiont than we care to admit with more than half of our cells being non-human

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ray is basic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Obnoxious creatures they are, always trying to take the shine from mosses. Mosses don’t need symbiosis because they’re perfectly able to survive harsh conditions by themselves. There’s been hardly a need to change their perfect designs for millions of years.

  Lichens just make new symbiotic relationships whenever they feel like it. They’re a promiscuous lot. Promiscuous scabs on a rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ray is basic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Link

  That’s debatable, most sources estimate mosses to have been there before lichens. It’s all estimations spanning millions of years of course.

  Mosses have leaves with chlorophyll though! Way more interesting in the context of there being trees or not. Lichens are just scabs on a rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ray is basic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are these people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ray is basic.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it feels counter-intuitive to some that sharks were there before trees…

  But I hope it is intuitive that there was water long before there was soil? Then it’s just a small step to realize life in water has had a much longer time to develop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m no expert at this, but it seems to be the suffix here is ‘tard’ not ‘ard’, coming from Latin.

  The root already has tard in it, from Latin retardare. It also has the word tard in it, French for late. Retard also means late in French.

  Does anyone here know? It also had me wondering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨according to sugar daddy’s net worth actually⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not commenting on people staying on topic, I’m saying the topic is always celebrities with you guys. No matter who started it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨according to sugar daddy’s net worth actually⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s a stretch to comment on Americans always making things about celebrities and influencers, even if there is many facets to war.

  This is the facet on the war, of which there are many, that the posts and the commenter highlight and I’m commenting on it because I find the talk of “bloodthirst” and “sad there’s innocent people killed, better take some of those influencers with them” appalling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨according to sugar daddy’s net worth actually⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes you’re really turning into a caricature of the US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨according to sugar daddy’s net worth actually⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You hate influencers, but you guys still make this war about the US and its influencers. “Sad there is a war, but please kill our influencers”.

  That’s about the Americanest thing I ever read. Not everything is about you and your celebrities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the 5 animals believed to have the capacity for sentience? I think you mean consciousness?

  The entire mammal kingdom is widely considered sentient. As are many other groups like fish and insects.

  Even with consciousness it’s stretching it to talk about just 5 species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know of its existence, thank you! Such a spot on recommendation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No worries, it was not the most clear joke.

  All jokes aside though, coincidentally I just finished reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass”, which has reinvigorated my respect for the Haudenosaunee and their Three Sister’s. Such a great read! I’m a student of ecology at the moment, and I studied Social Anthropology years ago so it was double interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, it was just a word joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t culturally appropriate please

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bioindicator PSA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not heather

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ve are sinking hoe to safe ze sinking kats

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Beer is just old porridge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can boil wheat too. Ancient peoples used to make porridge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨still miss ya big guy ✌️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cambrian cuisine would have to exclude the garlic, tomatoes and zucchini though. No plants yet. And no mammals so no cream.

  But otherwise, totally agree! If it lived in these times I would be up for these dishes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨still miss ya big guy ✌️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wish it was still here to be part of the Christmas dinner