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- Comment on MEN. 1 week ago:
Hm, I’d see the joking about men in this case as a way to blow off some steam caused by the frustration of how the people in our society with the most power and who are the most violent continuously refuse to change anything or make concessions. Men not going to therapy and working on their issues results in heightened patriarchal violence. And it is just utterly frustrating how many decades people have fought for systemic change just to see the vast majority of men blocking any change or even pushing back against it.
- Comment on MEN. 1 week ago:
I get that it’s hard, I was in the same boat multiple times. Everyone experiences the problems you list and I guess women and non-binary people actually have it worse because of on average greater financial instability and dependence on others.
But the issue is, for therapy to work you have to acknowledge you have a problem, be willing to reflect upon yourself and change some own misconceptions. I feel like cis men have great difficulty with that and therefore avoid therapy.
- Comment on 50 shades of green 2 weeks ago:
I’m trying to understand this figure now. So, on the right in grey is the Phytoplasma bacterium that is hitting the plant with its SAP proteins. What I don’t get, if this is a fifty shades of grey analogy, then the plant must be consenting and enjoying this. But the bacterium is a parasite damaging the plant and even apparently benefitting other parasites. This doesn’t make sense!!
- Comment on There's been a massacre! 2 weeks ago:
Just think how inefficient most of what we do is. Most of our modern society is based on indulgence or complex societal norms (very inefficient from an energy perspective!). It is frankly absurd to think we would do anything only based on its efficiency… Similarly, an intelligent alligator society may just eat their young out of fun or because of societal norms.
- Comment on Piss off! 3 weeks ago:
Lol didn’t even see that! :D
- Comment on On trees... 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, like monocots don’t have secondary growth so they have to use some tricks to get that large. Like palms first grow to a certain stem size on the ground (or below) and only then grow up. I wonder how lycopods grew that large considering they are not really ferns even… Oh and ferns also can grow to be trees!
- Comment on they come 3 weeks ago:
In some areas and times, cockchafers were served as food. A 19th-century recipe from France for cockchafer soup reads: “roast one pound of cockchafers without wings and legs in sizzling butter, then cook them in a chicken soup, add some veal liver and serve with chives on a toast”. A German newspaper from Fulda from the 1920s tells of students eating sugar-coated cockchafers. Cockchafer larvae can also be fried or cooked over open flames, although they require some preparation by soaking in vinegar in order to purge them of soil in their digestive tracts.[14] A cockchafer stew is referred to in W. G. Sebald’s novel The Emigrants.
- Comment on they come 3 weeks ago:
TIL calling beetles by the month they appear in is a mess. In Europe, may beetles are Melolontha, june beetles are Amphimallon (or Mimela), july beetles are Anomala (at least in German). Rhizotrogus is also in the mix, but didn’t get a month assigned.
But then in North America, there are different genera for each month. Phyllophaga in may, Cotinis and Polyphylla in june, none in july…
- Comment on Piss off! 3 weeks ago:
With one data point as sample size, it could have been a baby, a huge bodybuilder or anything. Same goes for the
humancow. All of this isn’t reliable data and we shouldn’t even discuss it here. - Comment on We're good, thanks. 3 weeks ago:
This reminds me of an unfinished crochet project of Anomalocaris I got lying around… If anyone is interested, here is the pattern I’m using: etsy.com/…/nur-muster-anomalocaris-burgess-shale
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Because no one should give Google any more money! Buying second hand/refurbished is the only way it makes sense for me to get a device by a large corporation like that.
I’ve had a couple of refurbished pixel phones and they’ve each worked well for years. The battery health was at about 95% when I bought them I think.
- Comment on Good to see someone caring about BiLions 1 month ago:
Aw sorry, didn’t get the irony in your original statement…
- Comment on Banananananananana 1 month ago:
The older, nicer version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYbWjJsLymE
The newer, more extreme version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=COOxP3_HFcM
- Comment on 🔪🔪🔪 1 month ago:
It’s shows a wasp and not a bee…
- Comment on Good to see someone caring about BiLions 1 month ago:
Well, if you look at any animal species, assume variations to occur. There are so many different sexes, genders and sexualities out in the animal kingdom, but our society’s cisheterosexual bias has conditioned us to believe that all animals are straight and cis…
As a reading suggestion you may look into Evolution’s Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden
- Comment on cilanto 🌿 3 months ago:
If you want to know more about this (because in reality it is a bit more complicated) MinuteFood explains it pretty well in this video.
- Comment on Dinosaurs Still Live 6 months ago:
For more info:
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 6 months ago:
This is the source, so no, this isn’t real :)
- Comment on STOP. IDING. PLANTS. 6 months ago:
Lol, good one!
- Comment on Sleepy Bees 6 months ago:
I quite often find bees sleeping in flowers in my garden. Especially inside Campanula flowers. Always so adorable to see them :)
- Comment on wrappers 6 months ago:
Cute!!
- Comment on MOREL DILEMMA 6 months ago:
You actually can eat the individuals that have not yet emerged from the ground. They look like eggs and are pretty weird in touch. But if you slice them really thin and fry them, they are delicious. (Disclaimer: I’m living in Germany and it might be different for the stinkhorns elsewhere.)
- Comment on the lifestyle 6 months ago:
What? Making a nice graph in excel? But yeah, ggplot2 does have a pretty steep learning curve. Once you learned it a bit it is really nice though. I love ggplot2 ❤️
- Comment on burden of knowledge 6 months ago:
In German, some people (especially men) use the phrase “I have pee in my eyes” for when they feel emotional or might want to cry. Maybe they are not emotional but instead are truly lobsters after all??
- Comment on Come to Biotech! 6 months ago:
Luckily Elizabeth Holmes isn’t in biotech anymore (because she is in prison)!
- Comment on Pants 7 months ago:
Maybe both? One leg goes this way and the other that way around…
- Comment on Caves 7 months ago:
Not sure where you live, but in central Europe (I live in Germany) you definitely have spiders, harvestmen, mites, millipedes, isopods, slugs, beetles, cockroaches (in my case cute little wood cockroaches), moths (their larvae at least). Maybe not directly inside your living room dancing on the table. Although there are some cockroaches that do run around everywhere in my home. But have a look around in your cellar, garage, any spaces that aren’t frequently heated or where you store food and you’ll find them.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I guess in some parts of the world it is already wednesday, isn’t it?
- Comment on My markup has my cat's contributions. 7 months ago:
Wow, this is really neat!! I tried getting into vim some years ago but never managed to get it working smoothly with latex like this. But this looks really great!
- Comment on Fruit Flies 7 months ago:
Oh yeah, that brings up memories. We had to do the same experiments in genetics lab, too. I’ll never forget the smell of fruit flies :/