southsamurai
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- Comment on Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child? 12 hours ago:
It’s both, and the ratio between them. Or that’s what I ran across back ages ago when I looked into it.
- Comment on Fun bites 12 hours ago:
No, no it isn’t. Not by a big enough margin to matter anyway. The koala one takes three basic facts and misconstrues them so horribly, I think it’s worse in a way
Koalas
a small overview about the chlamydia
and it isn’t even something they causedit was from invasive species.
The reason koalas eat only eucalyptus isn’t stupidity. It’s niche evolution. They live in a place with high competition for resources. Having specialized digestive tracts and gut flora allows them to have a food source that isn’t under competition. this is a benefit, not a failure. They literally eat something that is poisonous to pretty much every other species. That is an incredible evolutionary adaptation.
Their joeys eating pap is not exclusive to koalas either. It’s not only found across the world, the exposure to the gut flora of the parent happens with most mammals, if in a less direct manner. You can even find a ton of information about what happens when human gut flora becomes unbalanced, and it isn’t very pretty. It’s just worse for koalas.
Not every species is a generalist, and we don’t want them to be.
a note on why koalas bellow so much
As with most behaviors in other species, attributing human judgement and definitions tends to be misleading. While koalas are pretty unique in the lack of mating rituals, they’re not doing it for human reasons. Nor are attempts to copulate outside of season as common as the pasta makes it seem. Besides, that’s something humans actually do share with them besides the presence of fingerprints. It also isn’t so rare in animals as to be remarkable. Copulation behaviors are used outside of mating by plenty of species for social reasons. It isn’t in koalas, but since it does increase the chances of mating, it isn’t a bad adaptation.
And the extra cerebro-spinal fluid isn’t a special ed helmet, it’s another adaptation found in other tree dwelling species. Why would an arboreal species having adaptations to mitigate risk from falls be a negative?
Yeah, I get it, the pasta is meant for entertainment, but it also spreads half truths, outright incorrect or outdated information, and skips over facts for the entertainment value. Then people read it and spout it out later as fact.
It’s just a crappy copy pasta, not anything meant to be taken as truth, but people are more dumb than koalas.
This pasta in particular isn’t the worst (the sunfish one takes the prize for being the most full of bull). Nor is it a bad thing to enjoy as entertainment. But for crying out loud people, don’t take random, unsourced copy pasta as an educational tool.
- Comment on [deleted] 14 hours ago:
The fuck are you smoking? Russian grown weed, I guess
- Comment on Fun bites 14 hours ago:
Agreed completely.
- Comment on Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child? 16 hours ago:
Not all of them, no.
Most of them don’t do those nice, sturdy bubbles at all, but they’ll get close. Iirc, almond milk comes closest…
It matters in some recipes whether or not the milk substitute will have the right properties. Say, something like a mushroom cream sauce, none of the substitutes work because there’s just not duty enough fats. Milk gravy is hit or miss, with almond being the least bad choice iirc. American style biscuits, soy and almond do okay, but need extra acid to get a good rise like you can with buttermilk. But they sub in fine for regular milk in terms of texture and taste.
Stuff like that. Blowing bubbles is a quick way to test a fake milk. Or even types of cow milk, or milk from other animals. Goat milk, as an example, is so close to cow milk in terms of structure it’s an easy substitution if flavor isn’t a factor. The powdered milk you can get for long term storage or baking is no better than the usual non dairy stuff when reconstituted, and not even as good as skim milk despite being the dry parts of skim milk.
For good bubbles, you need fats. And they need to be similar enough to milk fats, so there’s a high degree of parity between a bubble test and cooking outcomes
- Comment on Fun bites 20 hours ago:
They’re funny for sure :)
- Comment on How does one become a clown? 1 day ago:
If you’re wanting to do stuff like festivals, you’d probably want to find a clown school.
But doing it as a volunteer, all you really need is a suit, a face, and skills. Juggling, balloon making, card tricks, etc. Then you reach out to facilities and work out the arrangements for a performance. Hospitals can be a tad restrictive about who gets to do shows for pediatric wards, so you’ll likely want to try nursing homes first and build up a local rep.
You can also try to hook up with local sideshow type troupes. Clowns aren’t always welcome, but you can usually pick up some skills if you’re honest about it. The fire performers won’t teach you, but jugglers and magicians will usually share some basics as long as you aren’t trying to shaft them with it.
- Comment on Perpetual motion eludes us again. 1 day ago:
Need a bigger magnet.
Also, how do they work?
- Comment on Fun bites 1 day ago:
Yeah, I was the same. Just pissed me off that people took what was meant to be a humorous rant and pretended it was factual.
When I ran across tea and crumpets’ rebuttal, I saved a copy immediately.
It kinda became a thing I did. I was a mod of r/goodlongposts for a while, and the rant copy pasta would get caught by the bot a lot, so I’d post the rebuttal. I eventually wrote my own for the koala pasta, then discovered it had already been done. There’s a panda one and a mosquito one as well. I used to have one for wasps, but I seem to have lost the file at some point. Skeeters and wasps were more for those times when they’d come up as beginning being hated in general, as I never saw any copy/pasta regarding them.
But, last time I went to the beach, I actually ran across idiots wanting to charter a damn boat to go throw rocks at the things. Which was stupid on multiple levels. But it shows how bad info can spread, so I always feel justified in pasting in the better info.
- Comment on Fun bites 1 day ago:
I have been so happy that on lemmy, the copy pasta hating sunfish gets soundly criticized and rejected as anything resembling reality.
However, I still want to take the opportunity to copy/paste in the rebuttal to that copy pasta an anti-pasto of sorts. A biologist took the time on reddit to write it up, and I have it saved in markor with a few minor edits.
Sunfish
From u/tea_and_biology
Zoologist here; the majority of this is so inaccurate the guy is basically angry at a figment of his own imagination, paha. I mean there’s hyperbole, and then there’s hyperbole. Yikes!
They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. So they don’t have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn’t just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it’ll fucking sink.
Sunfish are, in fact, well understood and, though clumsy when idly basking, are reasonably accomplished swimmers when diving. They stroke their dorsal and anal fins laterally and in a synchronous manner to generate a lift-based thrust that enables 'em to cruise at speeds of 2-3mph (source), comparable to a whale shark and the perfect speed for suction feeding; ploughing straight into smacks of jellyfish and gobbling 'em all up.
Where they excel amongst fish is their ability to undergo substantial vertical movement in the water column. They possess large deposits of low-density, subcutaneous, gelatinous tissue which, unlike a swim bladder (which would otherwise change volume with hydrostatic pressure), is incompressible, enabling rapid depth changes and keeping them neutrally and stably buoyant independent of surrounding water pressure.
So, yeah, their unusual bodies are basically one big paddle, capable of putting some force behind their swimming to move over considerable distances, descending very deep, very fast.
They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it’s so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive.
Dumb. Also incorrect. Jellyfish and other Cnidarians comprise only around 15% of their diet; they mostly eat young fish (including conger eelets) and crustaceans (pelagic crab, krill, copepods etc.), alongside squid, bivalves and other assorted zooplankton. They’re generalist predators, not jellyfish specialists like sea turtles (source).
They have a particularly rapid growth rate amongst bony fish, owing much to their unique genetics (source).
Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess.
They spend the majority of their time actively hunting in the very cold deep (usually at ~200m, but up to 600m) and, being ectotherms, therefore regulate their temperature by basking in the sun, before pursuing another dive. Think of marine iguanas basking on hot rocks between nibble trips.
And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.
Sunfish have been kicking about in temperate and tropical waters worldwide for around 50 million years and, until humans arrived on the scene, were overwhelmingly successful in their ecological niche. Sadly they’re under threat by human activity and human activity alone - frequently caught as by-catch; having little commercial value, like sharks, their fins are cut off before they’re dumped, often still alive, back into the sea to die. If one is to start throwing rocks at terrible creatures, perhaps one should look at us humans first.
Or, there’s The visual rebuttal, credit to u/iamnotburgerking
- Comment on When Jimmy Swaggart died I was reminded of the, "meth lines on a gay hooker's butt". When a self-hating degenerate does meth like that would it be on a butt cheek or right down in the business end? 1 day ago:
On the cheek
And it depends on the drug, butt most of them won’t absorb via the anal sphincter fast, so unless it’s just sitting there, the hooker wouldn’t get high.
You could snort a line from the crack, if the position was right though. Just need a long though enough straw. But the usual places coke or meth get snorted from are the butt cheeks, cock, and boobs (depending in the stripper or hooker’s equipment.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 1 day ago:
The thing is, it’s not a blanket statement of what must be done. It’s a principle that is guided by the combination of logic, emotional control, and, as strange as it may seem, empathy.
It stands as a metric to process one’s actions and choices. The individual vulcan accepts that the needs of all vulcans as a whole are more important than their own needs. This doesn’t mean that there is no debate. It’s the framework for the debate.
As the individual vulcan weighs options, they seek to determine what is the most benefit, and therefore the greatest need. They use logic to measure opposing or contradictory options, but they also consider the non physical ramifications.
Expanded into the federation, it becomes a measure for all sapient beings, not just vulcans. And that’s where the empathy of vulcans comes in the clearest. They’ll weigh the emotional harm to emotional beings as a need that must be factored into a decision.
But it also includes as part of their culture that no single vulcan is perfect, and that logic is a tool that must be developed. They can disagree with the decisions made about what the needs of the many are. It’s just that every individual sees the logic of their own needs being secondary.
It’s an expression of the vulcan equivalent of religion
- Comment on all it takes 1 day ago:
Ngl, I’ve had sex with female friends just because they were horny and wanted something uncomplicated from someone they knew would respect boundaries. Most often, that was going down on them, which was fine by me since I always found that to be fun. Sometimes they’d reciprocate, or return the favor later on. Sometimes not, and that was fine too.
If I was bi or gay, I’m fairly sure I’d at least be willing to give hand jobs to bros.
Not all the time, every time, but at that same level of occasional where if the need is strong, but opportunity absent, why not? Doesn’t hurt anyone, and as long as everyone involved is on the same page it won’t.
- Comment on all it takes 1 day ago:
I mean damn, I ain’t gay, but if it’s worth a hundred, I’m gonna try it
- Comment on Every summer be like this 2 days ago:
Even portapros!
- Comment on Anon has a warning for incels 2 days ago:
I mean, so unreal and non hetero.
Anon didn’t even suggest incels and femcels trade virginity
- Comment on Can it take months to get over being laid off? 3 days ago:
A lot of the time, we have a lot of our identity kit tied into our work. Sometimes that also means to specific jobs/employers.
Losing that for any reason can be anything from a mild annoyance to fully traumatic. And unexpected job loss not only affects one’s self view and sense of purpose, it’s a threat to stability and survival.
So, yeah, it can take years to move past.
It’s a form of grief, though that isn’t always easy to understand, and how intense that grief is is variable even for one person in specific. But it’s not at all unusual for someone quitting a job, in a planned way, to experience loss emotionally. When the loss is involuntary, that stack, then it being unexpected stacks higher. A long job hunt after adds more to the pile.
With anxiety already part of your existence, that grief is prone to hitting harder as well as deeper.
It looks like your grief has turned into depression as well. That drained, empty feeling is your brain and mind saying it/they have hit a limit to how much they can process.
I’m going to echo the suggestion that some talk therapy would be beneficial. Processing such events in life can be difficult to do alone because it’s so hard to see things culturally clearly from the inside.
Don’t think you’re alone in what you’re experiencing. It’s a very common thing to go through.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It 3 days ago:
Yeah, well, I want to kick him in the nuts
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 3 days ago:
My mix tape
- Comment on Keith Urban Shuts Down Radio Interview After Being Asked About Nicole Kidman's Sex Scenes With Younger Men 3 days ago:
What a shit article. Whoever wrote it needs to find a new career.
- Comment on Me if I had th emoney 4 days ago:
Ay! Homie be eating the three food groups!
Mac n cheese, meats, chocolate. Don’t be hatin’, we all know that’s how you live life the best
- Comment on Doctor Debates 4 days ago:
Could be, could be. But even hitting the cervix is fornices does not feel good if you’re going hard
- Comment on Doctor Debates 4 days ago:
What’s more dubious is the ability of a penis you penetrate any of the relevant tissues without also suffering injury. Not that it isn’t possible, but no way are you going through the diaphragm with human strength, not without also doing serious damage to the penis they’re tough, but they aren’t jam-through-a-wall-of-muscle tough
Plus, past a fairly reasonable length, there’s a small chance it wouldn’t be hard enough. It’s already soft on the glans, the giving some cushion. Really big cocks can have trouble maintaining a truly hard erection. Not like it’s some kind of definite every time thing, but a cock that’s maybe 18 inches long, no way is it going to be fully self supporting. Even guys in the ten inch range get a little floppy at times.
So ramming that thing through even the cervix is dubious. Anal isn’t even a guarantee that the cock could tear through intestinal walls. That can happen, but it’s rare.
- Comment on What do you call your mom (Or moms what do your kids call you) 5 days ago:
Usually, just mama. There’s a few nickname alternates that have piled up over the years, but mama sticks for whatever reason. She usually prefers it as well, so that works.
Strangely, my dad has two. Daddy and papa. I use them interchangeably, my sister sticks with daddy.
My kid calls their mom mommy or mom usually. Mommy when they’re tired for sure though lol.
- Comment on Dots! 1 week ago:
This whole image is metal as fuck \m/
- Comment on If we humans have a whole range of microbial life living on our skin, do other animals have their own similar micro fauna covering them? 1 week ago:
Aight, not a biologist, just an interested bystander.
But, yeah, everything alive has their microbiome. There’s an assortment of standard ones that are everywhere on earth, but there’s also some regional, and species specific types.
Iirc, sloths have a variety of algae that’s unique to them, or it may be that it’s a variant of a species. Something like that, but the point is that sloths have a biome adapted to them.
Going back to my disclaimer again, I believe that there’s also a fairly species related mixture of bacteria and fungi. Not accurate numbers, but something like 50% yeast, 25%staph, 25%lactobacilii as an example. If that were our mix, a gorilla might be 50/20/30 instead. The different conditions on the skin and fur/hair mean different types of microbes will do better or worse in a given climate with given environmental conditions. Again, totally armchair on this.
But the mixes aren’t static. All those microbes are competing. As conditions shift, so does the prevalence of one or some of them. That’s how yeast infections usually occur. Something happens to change the strength of other microbes and the yeast goes crazy taking over
- Comment on With all the animals that die in the sea, is it possible they get pickled in there? 1 week ago:
Ehhh, the big factor is that a pickling brine is controlled and small.
You don’t start out with an entire ecosystem of bacteria, fungi, scavengers, and the wide ranging temperatures that exist in an ocean.
Secondary to that, you tend to be dealing with cuts of meat when pickling, not entire bodies.
See, part of what causes decomposition are the enzymes released as individual cells die, and those produced by the bacteria already in the body.
When we slaughter an animal, it doesn’t just get thrown in brine whole. If you did, it would rot from the inside, no matter what the outside brine was like.
Instead, the carcass is drained of blood, organs are removed, and the meat will typically be kept very cool during transport and storage. When you put that into the brine, you’re severely limiting what bacteria are present in the first place. The brine will almost always be made with processed water from a tap, or from a known clean source like wells or springs. So, again, you have a very restricted range of bacteria.
The salt then limits them more. So you’ll lack the bacteria that thrive in salty conditions in the ocean, and only those in the air and fresh water even have a chance to eat the meat before salt kills off the ones that won’t ferment or otherwise preserve foods, including meats.
But! Deep sea conditions are very cold, and there has been footage of scavengers down there eating very well preserved carcasses. Some of that meat may well have pickled to some degree, as some of the fermentation bacteria can handle cold.
So, what it amounts to is that pickling isn’t purely done by the action off salt on the food. Brine pickling is essentially sourdough for meats and veggies. You grow bacteria that prevent the food from going bad in a dangerous way, which leaves you with something that will stay edible much longer. That’s kinda over simplified, but I think it’s good enough for this
- Comment on Why does good faith matter ? 1 week ago:
It only matters insofar as time invested.
If someone is just fucking around, trolling, baiting, or deliberately trying to spread some kind of propaganda in the guise of “just talking”, it’s annoying as fuck to spend fifteen minutes writing up a considered and meaningful comment. Sometimes it’s worth it anyway, if only to leave it for anyone coming along later, but it’s still a giant waste of effort that could could have been spent on someone or something genuine.
That doesn’t include someone playing devil’s advocate though. That’s fine, though it’s good manners to say so up front.
The line can be a little blurry at times, obviously. Some folks just don’t engage with others well. But most of the time, it’s fairly obvious within one or two exchanges that someone is fucking with you, or they’re just really bad at engagement and discussion.
- Comment on Should I make my game top down or side scrolling? 1 week ago:
Side scroll for pc, top down for mobile.
That’s how I prefer things
- Comment on What is with the obsession with gender neutral language on relationship topics ? 1 week ago:
You’re asking a pretty specific question, but your title looks like trolling. I’m starting with that because people tend to respond emotionally to the first things they read, and it means you aren’t getting solid answers.
Someone else already explained that reddit policies drove that rule, and that’s as much as anyone really knows.
At least, there was a wave of changes like that one, all around the same time, and the few mods that have said anything about it off of reddit have cited that as their reason mostly.
But there are a few that decided to take it as an opportunity to blunt the edge of gendered language in general. Afaik that sub hasn’t had anyone say that, but you did ask about reddit in general as well.
Expanding beyond that, and I want to emphasize that this is not the same thing as above, it’s tangential and here only for background; there are reasons to reduce gendered language overall. While it isn’t really going to totally change English where nobody uses gendered terms at all, reducing needlessly gendered language when speaking about people rather than men or women is an option that would help those among us that don’t fit gender expectations in one way or another. So (again, this is tangential) if you’re seeing it in other places, chances are that it’s intended to meet that concept.
With that, responding solely to your title, I’m not seeing a trend of obsession with it, even among people that are proponents of degendering language. It’s a pretty niche movement, and even the more dedicated proponents know that it isn’t something that’s going to happen just by applying rules to forums.