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- Comment on shrimp is bugs 6 months ago:
Dried grasshopper does really taste like prawn crackers.
- Comment on Can't block admin? 10 months ago:
Sync filters a lot in client.
- Comment on This ad that says “Wake up! A beach house is not a dream.” 10 months ago:
Insanely vile.
- Comment on Adds new meaning to explosive... 11 months ago:
But indigestion is sort of the opposite of diarrhea?
- Comment on He thought it was a sausage on a stick.. 11 months ago:
But dandelion greens are actually edible. Reed has no edible parts.
- Comment on Bowl cut gang, rise up. 11 months ago:
I can’t unsee this is 🤣🤣
- Comment on Cool optical illusion 1 year ago:
This was a seriously good shitpost. Had me for a second.
- Comment on It do be like that 1 year ago:
Statistics would indicate that that is a plausible scenario.
In addition, a uniparental disomy can occur as well. Here, the X chromosome was duplicated in the egg cell. So the exact same X chromosome is inherited twice.This is an error in meiosis. This could occur in XXX (with the third X from the father’s side), XXY, or even XX. That latter one would be rare, for a uniparental disomy on X without a third sex chromosome would mean both egg and sperm cell had an error during meiosis.
You could also see a single X (Turner Syndrome) as a 100% dominant X-chromosome. But that may be semantics.
- Comment on It do be like that 1 year ago:
X-inactivation is a little bit more complicated than that. While the process of X-inactivation initiation is random, once a cell has settled on one chromosome, all its daughter cells will silence the same chromosome. The initial process happens in the early embryo, so large patches of the body have the same X chromosome silenced.
This pattern is visible in some animals. E.g. a tortoise cat’s pattern arises due to the hair color gene existing on the X chromosome. Consequently, male tortoise cats are rare (XXY, XXXY etc only)
- Comment on Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life 1 year ago:
What about not using any free services for this? Those are guaranteed to be scummy. I pay $2 a month for NextDNS.
- Comment on This wasn't meant to happen! 1 year ago:
I’ve found that “new customer” sometimes gets you a human quicker…
- Comment on 207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death 1 year ago:
Where are you from?
- Comment on Man behind viral dress to stand trial charged with trying to kill wife 1 year ago:
Pink?
- Comment on Man behind viral dress to stand trial charged with trying to kill wife 1 year ago:
Ellen was also quite infamous among her crew.
- Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad 1 year ago:
You’re not getting many answers yet regarding nitrogen.
As a preface: When it comes to climate and environmental concerns with respect to agriculture, the word “nitrogen” does usually not refer to the completely harmless atmospheric nitrogen (N2). Instead, it refers to various compounds that contain nitrogen.
Nitrogenous pollution from cattle comes in two shapes:
The first is methane (NH3). A single cow burps and farts out about 100kg of methane each year. Methane is a greenhouse gas that’s 28 times as potent as CO2. This means a single cow is responsible for as much as 2800kg equivalent in CO2 each year due to burps and farts alone. For reference, the CO2 per capita emissions globally are about 4 tons (4000kg) per year, for all sources combined. Cows, relatively speaking, therefore produce a huge amount of CO2 equivalent.
The second is all the nitrogenous compounds in their excrements. This acts as a fertilizer on soil and in the water. While that sounds good, it leads to various unwanted effects. One is that agricultural runoff causes algal blooms in water that then ends up killing a significant amount of marine life. Another is that nutrient-rich soils tend to seriously decrease plant species diversity. Many native and wild plants actually need nutrient-poor soils to thrive. Those plants will get outcompeted by a small group of fast-growing plants that do well in all the cow-poop-infested soil. These compounds also tend to travel far, via agricultural runoff or even via the air, so ecosystems far away from farms are also impacted.