FoxyFerengi
@FoxyFerengi@startrek.website
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- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 1 week ago:
I only own one Nintendo game on my Switch. I’m not going to sit here and pretend most of my games run great on it though. Slay the Spire and Stardew run well. But I’ve had quite a few crashes with Civilization and some hangs with Hades or Hollow Knight too
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 1 week ago:
Bandcamp is what my bands like to use. They often have events (Bandcamp Fridays) where 100% of purchases go to the artists. Some bands also make decent money off merch sales from their own storefronts
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 1 week ago:
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 1 week ago:
Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy, and we are actively working with our industry partners to protect creators and defend their rights.
Lmao. They protect and defend artist rights so hard they they’ve refused to pay a fair compensation, and have taken it further by promoting AI artists over actual artists. This statement is almost comical after it was reported that they’ve showed a copy cats to replace King Glizard and the Lizard Wizard after they pulled their albums from Spotify
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 2 weeks ago:
I hate celery but love cilantro.
Weirdly, after I had covid cilantro tasted like perfume and I couldn’t stand it. I was very worried that it would forever be a ruined flavor, because it does definitely overpower food. Thankfully it’s gone back to normal lol
- Comment on If your username were a Scrabble word with no bonuses, what would it score? 3 weeks ago:
28
I should add more x’s to my name lol
- Comment on Bread mold 4 weeks ago:
I had an ex that did this well into his 20s,and convinced me to try it one night. I did not understand the appeal lol
- Comment on I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer. 4 weeks ago:
Be the change you want to see! Lemmy loves specific animal communities! Bats and superbowl come to mind
- Comment on oh no 4 weeks ago:
Are you the weirdo checking the undersides of fern leaves for sporangia? (/j that weirdo might be me)
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 5 weeks ago:
Not all articles that are peer-reviewed and given a doi are credible. Peer reviewers are directly contacted by the editor(s) of a journal, this can introduce bias. That journal, its current and past editor, and the sources of the opinion article have all been advised of bias.
I already had them tagged as “Richard Dawkins lover”, had to laugh when the article they posted had Dawkins as a source almost immediately.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 5 weeks ago:
This is from Scientific American in 2017
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 5 weeks ago:
That’s admirable that you want to be able to respond to arguments in a more thoughtful way, and I’m sorry people were assuming otherwise. I can’t really condense the entire semester of my developmental biology class into a comment, but I tried to give you terms to explore and learn more about.
I read the edit to your original comment and I think you’re on the right path!
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 5 weeks ago:
The term that might help you is “oogenesis”.
Essentially once cells have begun dividing following fertilization some are set apart as germ cells. These are the cells that eventually become gametes. The thing is, like I tried to mention in my last reply to that guy, it isn’t strictly chromosomes that determine what these cells become in humans. Lots of genetic transcription and translation factors, hormones and hormone receptors, ligands and so on. Sometimes those cells don’t even make it into the gonad, they die, and are absorbed by the embryo’s body.
This is why sex isn’t a binary, there is a spectrum of outcomes following gametogenesis, including a lack of gametes. Statistically it is most likely for a person who is born XX to have primary and secondary female sex characteristics. But that doesn’t mean people who fall outside of that aren’t also biologically women. If you define a woman as someone that is born with eggs, you deny womanhood to millions of people that would otherwise be considered a cis-woman by outdated standards.
That person stated one argument and then kept changing it, eventually arguing that we just weren’t understanding his words. Either he’s willfully ignorant and pushing a definition that is not taught in American universities, or he has an agenda. And the refusal to acknowledge the 30+ comments telling him he is wrong really suggests that there is an agenda.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 5 weeks ago:
This is how I’m going to refer to myself from now on. “My name is FoxyFerengi. I have no pronouns because my body is unorganized.”
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 5 weeks ago:
I provided several examples of chromosome combinations that result in people who produce no gametes. You’ve said in several comments that no one is born with a body plan that doesnt produce gametes, and that is incorrect. I’m a biology major, and I’m in a developmental biology class right now There are several points in development that can cause a failure to develop a sexual phenotype.
I don’t know why you’re saying it’s a hard line that biologists have drawn, when science is about being able to adjust our understanding of the world when we are presented with new information
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 5 weeks ago:
XO, XX, XY, XXY, XYY, XXX, XXXX, XXXY, XXYY, and others have been recorded in humans. In addition there is Swyer syndrome, Chappell syndrome, and mosaicism in which the gonadal phenotype doesn’t match the genotype. There are also events during fertilization which can cause an XX zygote to gain the SRY gene from the father. The SRY gene is what initiates male gonad development.
Sex is not binary just because there are two types of sex chromosomes. They can occur in multiple combinations and result in a spectrum of characteristics.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 1 month ago:
I think you mean Jainism? It isn’t Hindu.
They also have a very strict vegetarian diet, they won’t even eat root vegetables so burrowing insects aren’t disturbes
- Comment on 1 month ago:
He’s a convert himself, and she supported him in that conversion in the first place.
Remember when she was so sure they’d win the presidency that she quit her high paying job immediately before he was chosen as VP? I think she’s still all in on this, because I also think she has more conviction than he does
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 months ago:
I’m about to list my house for 20k more than I purchased it 3 years ago. When it goes on the market there will only be two other houses in the same price range (~100k range, with mine in the middle).
What she’s saying is so insanely out of touch. That’s a 70+ year old house and my elderly millennial ass could just afford it after years of saving
I won’t be recomping the improvements I made to the house, that 20k is basically going to the realtors lol
- Comment on It's true... 2 months ago:
I agree with you, I was just sharing what I knew of the process. My grandpa was rejected in a different state, but they were kind enough to cremate him for us.
- Comment on It's true... 2 months ago:
There are a few reasons that I know of: Heavy bodies are more difficult to move, fat bodies take longer to dissect, and large bodies don’t always fit on the (usually decades-old) tables.
I think that weight is a disqualification that’s been changing in recent years, because even in Europe bodies are starting to trend larger, but it’s still something to keep in mind if you live in like Mississippi and think the University of Mississippi will take your 350 pound grandpa when he passes on.
- Comment on It's true... 2 months ago:
I think it’s implying the opposite, that they abused their body so much during life that they no longer qualify to be donated. Weight is one of the major disqualifiers for whole-body donation.
The vast majority of bodies go to medical institutions for surgical training, with a smaller percent going to research
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 months ago:
The quote also says it was a professor at Columbia, which is one of the universities the administration has been bullying lol
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
I feel like Spotify’s recommendations have seriously gone downhill in the last two or three years. Most of the new music I actually like I’ve found in music comms on Lemmy
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 3 months ago:
I’m aware of that. I am not sure why you told me to watch that video when I was trying to figure out why they chose folinic acid supplements specifically. Because folic acid and folinic acid can really make people with MTHFR deficiency sick, and for some it also worsens their autism symptoms.
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 3 months ago:
My brain doesn’t handle videos very well, what’s the summary?
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 3 months ago:
I think this is based on poor understanding of genetics. A lot of neurodivergent people have mutations in a gene (MTHFR) that deals with processing folate. Taking folic acid if you have decreased ability to process it can actually cause health problems. I’m not sure what the difference is for folinic acid, but this just all sounds very pharma-bro and unscientific to me
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 3 months ago:
I loved when they got tired of putting the eye candy in those scenes and started throwing in random characters like Porthos.
- Comment on If your name is Theodore, you could end every conversation with "thanks for coming to my Ted talk" 3 months ago:
I changed my name a few years ago and totally missed out on meme potential 😭
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 3 months ago:
Dirt is really expensive if you’re unemployed. Some herbs and veg are quite happily grown kratky style, but that also comes with its own challenges
