KingGimpicus

@KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the elder gods⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc the closest modern day relative is some form of sea slug. How you go from spore to slug has got to be a wild journey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the elder gods⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Happened all the time. It just depends on the environment. Check out basically anything on the “Tully monster” if you want to know more.

  Tully monsters are actually even older than OPs fossil and we have no idea where they came from or where they went, from an evolutionary perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What about an opposite bridge where you cross under the river? Some sort of tubular subterranean structure. We could call them opposite bridges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A planet is a pen without fences. You just have to expand your perspective. You’ve obviously never interacted with a farmer in your life if you’ve never heard them brag about how many animals they have on the property. And those are just the ones they can count. Im sure some crazy farmer somewhere in India would be mad proud of how many rats he’s got running around. They’re holy in certain parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The pic says “of all the mammals on earth”. It’s exactly as i said with the pen, just scaled up to a 3d spherical planetary sized pen. The numbers I’m talking about don’t change.

  There are WAY more rats than cows. Period. They’re on every continent except Antarctica, and there might be some weird subterranean prehistoric voles huddled around a hydrothermal vent pool or some shit.

  OP just needs to add a qualifier to the graphic. Anything along the lines of “with respect to biomass” right at the start

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so you have 240 rats and one cow in a pen on a farm. How many mammals are in the pen?

  This survey would answer that the pen is 90% cow and 10% rat, therefore there are 9 times as many cows as there are rats.

  In reality land, where the rest of us live, would say that there are 241 mammals in the pen and only 1 of them is a cow.

  You see why I’m calling bullshit by the way this is worded?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OK so how many tons of cow are accounted for by whales?

  Or does the survey cherry pick land animals too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Source?

  Im gonna go out on a limb and say this is udder cowshit. Rats are mammals, as are raccoons, squirrels, and whole fucking masses of little basically unfarmable varmints. You’re telling me that there’s like 3 farm cows for every wild rat on earth?

  Horse. Shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree. Did not get sucked in like subnautica, which is weird because it’s basically a small reskin and new (but much smaller) map.

  It should have worked, but it very didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beef is overrated. Pork, poultry, and wild caught shrimp are where it’s at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitch@

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rib sammich

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You just need a union job. I just started mine and my first day I find out we’re getting a new contract with $1/hr raises yearly for the next five years, a new boot benefit of $250 a year, better per diem on travel, and better compensation while traveling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reasonable suspicion of a crime. You need to say the whole thing.

  The number of cops that thinks “I’ve got reasonable suspicion of you being suspicious.” Has always been too goddamn high. You need reasonable suspicion OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. Being suspicious isn’t a crime. Being black or Latino in a subway station isn’t a crime. Even stop and identify laws need to be based in reasonable suspicion of a crime because the 4th amendment demands it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve had over 100 years yo fix the system from the inside. If good cops ever existed, what have they done to stop shit like this from happening?

  Fuck them all. There are no good cops when savages like these ones are allowed to do what they do. Every last one of them may as well be kindling for the fires of the revolution that’s coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Red Eaglefeather. Obvs