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- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 3 days ago:
Yeah like look organopónicos in Cuba. Thanks to the collapse of the import market that fuelled industrial agriculture and government support of local growers, a good chunk of food in the country now comes from ecology-sound urban agriculture.
- Comment on Carl? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on epidemiology 2 weeks ago:
Or any smallpox samples sitting in the back of an old lab, like the ones they found in 2014. Or the smallpox samples that the US and Russian governments keep
as WMDsfor research purposes. - Comment on salmon 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but that’s only when they’re on their way back to the sea. For Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest whose territories don’t directly border the sea (so mostly Interior and Columbia Plateau nations) the salmon run was traditionally a major source of staple food. The rivers used to run so thick with fish that people up and down the major rivers could gather enough salmon to live off for the next year.
- Comment on #justposeidonthings 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I feel like at that point ‘just’ invest in a submersible. Stay nice and comfy at atmospheric pressure in your iron lung
- Comment on Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine 3 weeks ago:
I really don’t understand their examples. Like I get self-recognition and memory but what makes play behaviour, curiosity, anxiety-like states, and problem-solving signs of consciousness? These are at the end of the day organisms responding to stimuli, something all organisms by definition do. Is pain response a sign of consciousness but something like phototaxis isn’t only because the former is ‘complex’ and the latter ‘simple’?
- Comment on isopods are friends 4 weeks ago:
Pill millipedes (looks like Glomeris marginata) vs isopods (some Armadillidium species as it can roll up into a ball). Incredible case of convergent evolution
- Comment on Vikings may have practiced body modification as "rite of initiation" 1 month ago:
I guess they kinda just accepted the sensitivity and higher chance of a broken tooth. It’s like how we know how wearing high heels all the time fucks up your joints but the social convention is still there and people still follow it.
And it might just be the discolouration but the filed areas are darker and more yellow than the non-filed areas, so I think we’re just looking at the (probably tertiary) dentin.