iilwl

@iilwl@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unsolicited, but not wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Took me a minute, but I’m guessing the mom is warning their child that any potential date or relationship with someone who believes woowoo about the significance of time of birth won’t be good for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This map shows where oil and gas is found. Is there no oil and gas under the rockie mountains (circled red) or they just haven't found any because it's too difficult to drill through the mountains?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a geologist so I can’t give an answer I’d like, but I do enjoy reading about such things. Your question prompted me to search on my own about it. You should read about the formation of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and of course, the formation of the rockies and geologic timelines and forces involved. Wish I could actually provide a short and concise answer, but I just like to think about it and am by no means a scholar. Good luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Head, shoulders, “Nissan toes” (knees and toes).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution Factsberg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m honestly surprised this isn’t better understood in this community, at least as an approach to the tree of life system of classification, with or without its merits. I didn’t go to college and went to public school that suppressed science education, but this was how I came to understand evolution and that all types of life had a universal common ancestor.

  I’m not speaking to the accuracy of the meme, and the science community at large has its criticisms of cladistics, but I’m not sure I would classify this as a problem of biology or language, or a problem at all. It is the most common method of evolutionary classification at this time.

  Keep in mind I’m a blue collar worker on my lunch break and not a scientist nor college educated. I just like to learn in my free time about a bunch of stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution Factsberg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cladistics.

  “Theoretically, a last common ancestor and all its descendants constitute a (minimal) clade. Importantly, all descendants stay in their overarching ancestral clade. For example, if the terms worms or fishes were used within a strict cladistic framework, these terms would include humans.”