Enkrod
@Enkrod@feddit.de
Webdeveloper from Germany, nerd, gamer, atheist, interested in nerd-culture, biology, history, physics, politics and space.
Progressive. Ally. SocDem. Euro-Federalist.
Political Compass: -7.0, -6.62
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 months ago:
Thank you for your service
- Comment on Not to mom shame... 4 months ago:
Yes! Did you know that they can’t hear their own mating calls?
- Comment on What I thought some abbreviations/emoticons meant vs what they actually meant 5 months ago:
UwU, OwO and OwU represent Cute Face
- Comment on Robert De Niro has award withdrawn after calling Donald Trump 'monster' outside trial 5 months ago:
He’s gonna sit between his two Oscars and his Golden Globe and cry about it.
- Comment on arthropods 6 months ago:
There are dinosaurs right outside my window right now. I think they might be nesting, one is collecting sticks while the other is hopping across the lawn to look for worms.
- Comment on arthropods 6 months ago:
There’s five million ants for every human, should they decide to fuck us up, they will.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 6 months ago:
How is horizontal gene transfer between microbes in any way relevant to a discussion about the ancestry of chickens that only reaches back to the dinosauria clade?
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 6 months ago:
Chicken is equally close to T. Rex as all other birds. They all go back to the same common bird-ancestor who was a relative of T. Rex.
T. rex is more closely related to birds than to all non-theropod dinosaurs.
T. rex also lived closer to us in time than to Stegosaurus.
Same reason why humans don’t actually descend from monkeys, both monkeys and humans descend instead from a common ancestor that no longer exists
But that ancestor was a monkey! We are monkey, you can’t evolve your way out of a clade.
This is why, IMO, Digimon could be a better representation of evolution than Pokémon, since one Digimon can evolve into many different forms, so that kitten could become a fridge, but also a dragon or a knight with cannons
But that is specifically not how evolution works. You can’t evolve your way out of a clade, everything a cat would evolve into, would also be a cat. Maybe a weird cat, maybe a whale-cat (like whales are still ungulates, even if they are really weird ones) but still a cat. You can’t evolve out of your ancestry.
- Comment on Me trying to insert a flash drive at night 7 months ago:
> Golf pal of dad go to Japan for business, > he has prostitute over, > goes at it like a wild rabbit > she keeps screaming "Ana chigai!! Ana chigai!!" > he thinks she mean big praise, great or wow > next day he go golf with japanese businessman > Japanese man get a hole in one! > dad pal scream "Ana chigai!" to praise him > Japanese man turn to him, looking confused > > "What you mean, wrong hole?"
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 7 months ago:
Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides
Such a weird mishmash of German, Latin and Greek
- Comment on This is at Jorvik Viking Center. 8 months ago:
That is extremely cool and I don’t doubt your expertise in the slightest. Was only commenting about that anoxic conditions alone wouldn’t necessarily preserve the bog mummies, but that the acidic conditions and tannins are likely more important.
- Comment on This is at Jorvik Viking Center. 8 months ago:
Well the human gut is anoxic too, so that shouldn’t be a problem for the gut-bacteria in that log and in the bog mummies. I think it way more likely that the sphagnan and the other tannins in peat-bog-water conserved this as well as the bog bodies.
- Comment on The later books are really something 8 months ago:
I’m here to provide the divided opinion: God Emperor of Dune is the best book in the series imho.
- Comment on The duality of particles 8 months ago:
Most particles are, researchers have shown that even macro-molecular objects like buckyballs behave like a wave in the double slit experiment.
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 1 year ago:
Money don’t buy happiness, but no money buys a lot of misery!
- Comment on Why would the immune deficiency foundation do this? 1 year ago:
There are lots of situations where it’s okay to sit on the fence. Centrism is only a problem when it’s pathologic.
- Comment on How long to grow a community? 1 year ago:
Can confirm
- Comment on Upvoting a factually incorrect comment because it sounds nice, and downvoting a factually correct comment because it sounds bad. 1 year ago:
Still. I live near Mannheim, out of the 8 people in my circle of close friends, 4 either outright do not own a car or share a car with their spouses, because their households can make do with one or less cars. They can absolutely make do with walking, bikes, tram, bus and train for everything in their daily lives. In many american cities of the same size, that would simply not be an option.