LibertyLizard
@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Liquid Trees 9 hours ago:
True, but unfortunately, this species is way over-planted in many cities. I would not recommend them unless they happen to be uncommon in your local area. Urban forests need to be as diverse as possible to resist the constant barrage of pests and diseases being introduced by global trade.
In California we have a relatively new pest called shot-hole borers which are killing off many of the London planes, so we’re scrambling to plant other species that can resist them.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 9 hours ago:
Your potted tree isn’t a tree in the sense that I’m talking about. The environmental services trees provide are all based on size and are predominantly provided by larger trees.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 11 hours ago:
Trees don’t attract VC funding the way some dumb new invention does.
I guess this could be useful in places trees don’t fit but I think there are other simpler solutions.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 11 hours ago:
The amount of water required is trivial compared to most other water uses. Especially if correct species are selected.
- Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 5 days ago:
My hypothesis has always been that we find baby (and adult!) animals cute to incentivize us to care for them when they need care, because our ancestors benefited tremendously from their presence in our lives. I agree that it probably started as accidental overlap from parental instincts but I think the feeling is too strong and applies to too many distinct animals to be coincidental.
That said, this is just my pet theory and I have no evidence for it.
- Comment on Know when you are appreciated 1 week ago:
Xerces is dope as hell.
- Comment on mmmm proper mammilian 1 week ago:
I mean the obvious answer is to smell and then eat them. That’s what I do.
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 1 week ago:
This being’s air tastes of sweat and milk. Disgusting.
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 1 week ago:
Agreed. Even though I think voting is the right thing to do, forcing people to vote is an infringement on their freedom and I don’t think it’s justified.
- Comment on *No.* 1 week ago:
Most neighborhoods have HOAs nowadays. It can be hard to avoid.
- Comment on ‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended his censor -- [Long read] 1 week ago:
Love that is enforced by violence is meaningless.
- Comment on Did the top of my little tree die? 1 week ago:
I think that’s what it is, but I’m not too familiar with this species and its potential maladies. You could try cross posting to !treehuggers@slrpnk.net to see if another arborist sees it there but I don’t know if any on Lemmy unfortunately.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 1 week ago:
I guess I forgot to say it needs to fit in the package lol
- Comment on Did the top of my little tree die? 1 week ago:
Is this an eastern redcedar? If so, it should be cold hardy enough for Wisconsin I think.
To me the top doesn’t look dead, but I’m not sure what’s causing the color difference. Perhaps it’s just maturing? If it’s still soft and pliable I would assume it’s OK.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 1 week ago:
Could you create a device that would compress some substance to the extent it would reach this weight or is that impossible?
- Comment on This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards. 1 week ago:
Finally, my moment has come.
- Comment on Come here little guy 2 weeks ago:
Basically every field of science at this point.
- Comment on What would the USA look like if it had Referrendums/Initiatives on both the Federal and State level? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah… I still think referendums are good but fundamentally democracy can’t coexist comfortably with extreme wealth inequality. So it’s a good idea but it doesn’t solve the core issue.
- Comment on jiggle wiggle 3 weeks ago:
How come my melon doesn’t do this? Evolution giving me the short stick yet again.
- Comment on purpose 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I mean the ethics of how humans relate to wild mammals are complicated and confusing so I’m not even going to go there.
- Comment on purpose 3 weeks ago:
This has been a common sentiment but it hasn’t been proven in any substantial way to my knowledge. I personally doubt it’s accurate. That’s not to say the entire ecosystem would collapse but there would likely be consequences.
That said, the other commenter is correct that there are many introduced mosquito species that could probably be eradicated from their non-native range without major ecological harm. And the species that are the worst pests in human cities tend to be introduced, so eliminating them might significantly reduce the level of bites and disease transmission for people.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I was trying to avoid those details. I think it’s fair to summarize that as a system that detects the direction light is coming from.
- Comment on Fisk 4 weeks ago:
Now this is the kind of news the people need to hear!
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 4 weeks ago:
I think this speaks to a significant misunderstanding that most people hold of the way vision actually works.
Most people imagine that vision is a relatively simple process by which our eyes detect and transmit to us the nature of the world. Not so.
Eyes are complex and interesting organs in their own right but fundamentally what they do is relatively simple. They are able to detect and report to the brain certain qualities of the light that hits them. Primarily these are: intensity, direction, and proximity to three points on the frequency spectrum (what we perceive as red, green, and blue). But this data alone is not vision. Vision is a conscious experience our brains create by interpreting and processing this data into the visual field before us—basically, a full scale 3D model of the world in front of us, including the blended information on reflection and emission that color entails.
Quite amazing! Most of this takes place in the human brain, and not the eyes. From this perspective, it is not terribly surprising that an organism with more complex eyes but a much simpler brain might have worse vision than we do.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Wait how did this lead to 20 papers containing the term? Did all 20 have these two words line up this way? Or something else?
- Comment on It's not up for debate! 1 month ago:
Needs less head before crab.
- Comment on Consider the following... 1 month ago:
!nolawns@slrpnk.net
- Comment on dendrochronology 1 month ago:
They usually use a coring device. It doesn’t do significant damage to the tree.
- Comment on dendrochronology 1 month ago:
It’s the main accurate way, at least for living trees.
There are other methods but none really have a proven track record of accuracy the way tree-ring based methods do.
For well documented trees that coexisted with literate cultures, historical records can be used, though these records can sometimes be wrong. Some trees have ages from oral tradition too but these are difficult to verify.
- Comment on dendrochronology 1 month ago:
Also, if you didn’t count the rings then you don’t know how old the tree is. I don’t care how old your uncle thinks it is. You have no idea how often this comes up and how many completely implausible tree ages are just posted as fact in the internet.