Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Fingies 9 hours ago:
I assume it’s that leg healing reduces their speed or endurance
Basically this, part of how they get their speed (legs being mostly tendon and cartilage) is what makes healing so difficult. Both tendons and cartilage have far less blood supply compared to muscle or skin, which heal much more quickly. So if a horse developed legs with more tissue and muscle (and thus an increased blood supply, improving healing), they would have been slower than their skinnier legged cousins and had no competitive advantage.
- Comment on Fingies 13 hours ago:
Re: why didn’t horses evolve better leg healing, if you’re a proto horse and injure your leg you’re probably not living to heal it, because you can no longer run. So there is no evolutionary pressure to spread those genes through the population, even if a horse did randomly get born with genes that let it heal its legs better than other horses, because no selection mechanism would exist.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 16 hours ago:
Innocent Europeans would NEVER do a fascism without a wicked Other forcing them to do it!
- Comment on I read somewhere a while back that most or at least half of California wildfires are cause by faulty electrical company equipment. Is this true? And how come no one has ever reported it? 1 day ago:
Fire isn’t needed at any intensity at any time of year, every year. Fire adapted plants can be and are getting over-burned by fires that are getting more intense (less rain, more heat). This is exacerbated by non-native plants (especially grasses and eucalyptus) that outcompete the native plants and are then extra vulnerable to fire.
- Comment on I read somewhere a while back that most or at least half of California wildfires are cause by faulty electrical company equipment. Is this true? And how come no one has ever reported it? 1 day ago:
I’m not sure about that particular statistic (half of the total number of fires, regardless of size? Half of acres burned?), but utility lines definitely cause a lot of fires. This can be mitigated by burying lines, which IIRC is what San Diego does, but it’s expensive so companies don’t want to do it unless their arms are twisted.
- Comment on This has gotten out of hand and I demand satisfaction. 6 days ago:
Looks like a tiled counter to me. In southern California (and I’m sure other places but that’s where I first encountered it) in the 60s and 70s a lot of kitchens started being made with tiled counters. Think small bathroom wall tiles put on the counter surface rather than floor tiles. I don’t know why it caught on, because they’re uneven and impossible to keep clean. But a lot of old rentals/homes still have them if they haven’t remodeled since then.
- Comment on This has gotten out of hand and I demand satisfaction. 6 days ago:
No rice, no beans, beef with red sauce. wtf why isn’t my burrito with one ingredient huge??
- Comment on So wise. 1 week ago:
I tip because I’ve been reliant on tips before, and I know that expecting someone who is working for tips to single-handedly solve tipping culture is unreasonable. I don’t believe in solutions that punish the poorest person in the equation, especially for a luxury like dining out.
You can already eat at places that pay a real wage to servers if you don’t want to tip.
- Comment on So wise. 1 week ago:
I always just do 10% (easy because you move the decimal one place) and then either double that or add half of it to itself for a 15-20% tip.
- Comment on I need a job *blub* *blub* 🐟🐟 2 weeks ago:
I’m helping them evolve!
- Comment on I need a job *blub* *blub* 🐟🐟 2 weeks ago:
Aquarium rant: if you have a home aquarium slightly smaller in size than the reflecting pool’s 6.8 million gallons, plecos are a terrible choice for algae control. They get way too big and introduce way too much ammonia. Snails and neocardinia shrimp are a much better choice and can actually live off algae and crud on the bottom to a large extent.
- Comment on Troof 2 weeks ago:
Give him a perm did he looks exactly the way my friend’s mom looked in the 90s 😭 And she did give us alcohol under 21, lmao. It worked because she gave us the nastiest, cheapest premixed mudslide possible and it repelled us from alcohol for a few more years.
- Comment on Why can't this happen to me? 2 weeks ago:
Incredible, someone managed to create an image I wish was AI generated
- Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion 2 weeks ago:
A whole lot of people are about to have a precipitous drop in their apparent writing skills.
- Comment on Having a bad day? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the con, but the ones I’ve been to have all been fine, except in the headless lounges that are specifically set up to let sweaty people take their suits off and cool down. And that just smells like gym. They sell all kinds of scented sanitizing sprays for fursuits, nobody wants to be stuck in a smelly suit.
- Comment on The ole Morning Constitutional 2 weeks ago:
Possibly? I thought I had only talked about it with my husband, but maybe not
- Comment on The ole Morning Constitutional 2 weeks ago:
A while back I saw a local post about a guy with donkeys walking through town. There’s picture and a URL on the packs of one of his donkeys, I look it up, and he apparently just walks from southern to central California and back each year with his donkeys every spring and fall, and has been doing it for over a decade. He sleeps outside and eats mostly lentils and rice. It takes all sorts. Honestly, living under a bridge or outside with donkeys sounds preferable to the pictures posted by OP.
- Comment on The ole Morning Constitutional 2 weeks ago:
Normal is what you’re used to.
- Comment on My Arrakis 3 weeks ago:
Listen, there may be a drug at the gas station called spice, but do NOT smoke it!
- Comment on ngl kinda hoping people start arguing over this 3 weeks ago:
My husband and I had a cat for nearly a decade and she never so much as looked at the TP roll. Our current gremlin has sprinted at top speed into the bathroom because he heard me open the cabinet where we started hiding the TP when he wouldn’t leave it alone. He actually tried to grab it out of my hands, and I had to play tug of war with him! I’ve never encountered any other cat as hellbound on destroying TP, but lives for it. Shreds it like he’s plucking a bird.
- Comment on Top tip 3 weeks ago:
Why waste all that room in your freezer when you can just dehydrate it instead?
- Comment on Schools being too soft lately 3 weeks ago:
Physics
- Comment on Schools being too soft lately 3 weeks ago:
Truly what children don’t experience enough of: blame!
- Comment on Wowee!! 3 weeks ago:
They call him the 5 cent cat
- Comment on why are all social medias based around western values? 3 weeks ago:
Homophobia and transphobia are much more western values, lol. They were imposed on hundreds of cultures (often through the imperialist legal system) that previously tolerated gender and sexual diversity prior to European colonization. If you want to learn more, The Gender Binary is a Big Lie by Lee Wind is an accessible introduction to the breadth of cultural understandings of gender and sexuality.
- Comment on Aha! 3 weeks ago:
I love a Flapjack reference!
- Comment on Aha! 3 weeks ago:
They don’t do that if you floss daily, barring gum disease. Once you start it’s going to feel gross to not do it daily.
- Comment on Ada Lovelace 4 weeks ago:
The origins of computer programming are also intertwined with textiles, as the first punch card programs emerged as part of weaving in the early 1800s (Jacquard looms).
Also interesting: trans people in addition to cis women are historically associated with textile production in many cultures. Trans programmer socks = modern day trans weaver.
- Comment on Happy Killdozer Day 4 weeks ago:
The property had a rudimentary sewage storage solution in the form of a buried cement mixer left by the previous owners.[9] The cost to update the sewer system would be nearly double the $42,000 Heemeyer paid for the property.
City officials told Heemeyer that putting in a septic tank was a less expensive alternative, but he rejected both options and said that the government not paying for the sewage line hookup was “extortion by government fiat”. Despite these setbacks, he did not withdraw his annexation request and subsequently became part of the sewer district.[9]
By 1993, Heemeyer had abandoned plans to rent the property to a friend and instead opened a muffler repair shop on the grounds.[9] According to Heemeyer, his friend had lost interest in the property in around April 1992 because of oil spills and environmental issues.
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In 1997, the Docheff family planned to expand their business to include a concrete batch plant and were buying up the land around their current lot, hoping to lease the remaining 23 parcels to small manufacturers.[1] They were informed by the town planning commission that they needed a “Planned Development Overlay District” permit to construct the plant as part of their Mountain Park Concrete development.[1] The commission also suggested that the Docheff family ask if they could purchase Heemeyer’s plot to keep the plant away from the hotels and businesses on Route 40.[9] Heemeyer asked for $250,000 (equivalent to $501,399 in 2025) for his property, but later claimed he had had the lot reappraised and asked for an additional $125,000 (equivalent to $250,700 in 2025). The Docheffs managed to collect $350,000 (equivalent to $701,959 in 2025), but according to Susan Docheff, Heemeyer again upped his asking price, claiming he had the property appraised again at a higher value, this time asking for $450,000 (equivalent to $902,519 in 2025).[1][9] This negotiation happened before the rezoning proposal had a public hearing at town hall.[7] Heemeyer launched a public campaign against the planned concrete plant. His campaign was initially successful, with members of the public concerned about potential environmental impacts packing into hearings on the construction proposals. The Docheffs addressed these concerns by promising to install additional measures against dust and noise and presented miniatures of the plant to concerned citizens. Opposition to the proposal dwindled, and the plan was set to move forward again.[1][9] In November 2000, Heemeyer filed a lawsuit to block the project. By January 9, 2001, Heemeyer had lost most of his allies in opposition to the concrete plant, and city officials almost unanimously approved its construction.[1][14][9] This made the final approval by Granby’s zoning commission and trustees in April a formality.[9] Heemeyer tried to appeal the decision, claiming the construction blocked access to his shop.[9][15] He also complained to the Environmental Protection Agency; this resulted in the Docheff family having a professional noise analysis done.[1] In June 2001, Joe Docheff made Heemeyer an offer over the phone whereby if Heemeyer dropped the lawsuit, they would provide him an easement to connect a sewer line to the new concrete plant free of charge; Heemeyer simply hung up.[9] Around this time, the buried concrete truck barrel that served as Heemeyer’s sewage hole filled up. Heemeyer responded by pumping his sewage with a gasoline pump into the irrigation ditch that ran behind his property.[9] Heemeyer also attempted to illegally connect to a neighbor’s sewer line, but was caught and the incident reported to the sanitation district. At this point, the sewer district started enforcing the legal requirement to have a sewer hookup or a septic tank and fined Heemeyer $2,500 (equivalent to $4,546 in 2025) for it and other city code violations at his business in July 2001, nine years after he was required to have installed either
Dude sounds like an immense jackass and I will never understand the internet worship of him.
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 4 weeks ago:
Every tetrapod evolved from fish, including humans and pterosaurs.