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- Comment on same, honestly 13 hours ago:
Not only that, but probably a lot more animals are stressed out by them. They just reported on the bears because they studied their response. But we should generally come up with guidelines or rules when or if people are allowed to fly drones in nature.
- Comment on Critical Support 1 day ago:
Cute!!
- Comment on Edible Wood 2 days ago:
That’s an extremely fast-growing monocot though without the ability of secondary growth and therefore with a much lower lignin content.
- Comment on Edible Wood 2 days ago:
The next paragraph adds the explanation, why its wood is edible:
Although most wood is indigestible to humans due to the high lignin content, the yacaratiá tree is only around 10% cellulose while the rest is mostly water with very little lignin content. Unlike most plants, cells of this tree contain large spaces within their walls which store water.
It is in the Caricaceae (Papaya family) and apparently a pioneer species just like Papaya. No wonder it is mostly water and hardly any lignin!
- Comment on Treat 6 days ago:
So it’s making fun of the Lombards??
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
Yes and it is very important to constantly remind ourselves that all our abstractions and classifications are just that. Helpful tools for us to view and understand the world. People tend to forget that and over time see their categorization as essential and natural. For example, sex and gender are both socially constructed but people forget that and then create a whole set of rules around it to reinforce that categorization including social stigmatization and infant mutilation.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t generally true for eukaryotes either. In plants, hybridization is a huge thing and also polyploidy. So for some groups of plants we struggle to put them in neat boxes as well.
And zooming out to a larger view on taxonomy, plant taxonomy has seen some huge changes in the last decades with the various APG (angiosperm phylogeny group) publishings rearranging many if not most orders, families and genera of angiosperm plants.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
Even for anything else, it actually is. Taxonomy is our construct that we came up with as a society to classify life. We cannot ever be “right” about it, it can just be more or less useful for us to understand life.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
How is this the temperate zone?? You know how the internet works?
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 2 weeks ago:
You mean, we apply plant language to them so they are also like plants? They are closer related to us though…
- Comment on It's true... 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing, otherwise I wouldn’t even have thought of this. It’s so infuriating :(
- Comment on It's true... 3 weeks ago:
Severe obesity (body weight over 200 lbs.) or severe wasting
Wait what? I converted 200 lbs to kg and it should be equal 90 kg. This isn’t severely obese. I weigh much more and do stuff like bouldering.
Anyways, doesn’t even matter because it is important to also train on fat bodies. Because otherwise we face the same problems medicine has with ignoring female and black bodies. Most studies have just been on white, able-bodied male bodies. To actually treat all bodies with the best care, medical professionals should be trained on all types of bodies!
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 3 weeks ago:
Wait what? Clovers are a species of Trifolium in the Fabaceae (legume family), but sorrel refers to the leaves of Rumex species in the Polygonaceae. What are you referring to?
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 3 weeks ago:
Apiaceae are generally very hard to tell apart. Sure, the common hogweed is relatively easy to ID if you know the plant well enough. But there are sooo many species in this family that all have small white flowers and similar looking leaves…
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 3 weeks ago:
Natural cave systems don’t have as many animals in them either, because there are just not enough nutrients around for larger populations to establish. (Exceptions are to this are caves where birds or bats nest in large colonies and there you can find huge populations of other animals feeding on the feces for example.)
I don’t think the spiders necessarily feed on pillbugs though. At least I haven’t observed that yet. I’d think spiders would either feed on other spiders or on any flying insects getting in the garage.
Oh and something new I’ve learned from Wikipedia about pillbugs:
They have also been observed eating wood supports in houses, making them a house pest.
Maybe check for that if there are so many in your garage?
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 4 weeks ago:
Believe me, there are many other animals, you just don’t see them ;)
- Comment on Just hear me out 4 weeks ago:
Still an ugly plant imo…
- Comment on I'm so ready. 4 weeks ago:
I mean, who said you have to watch it on apple’s streaming service. The pirated stream is just to clicks away anyways…
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 4 weeks ago:
Adding to what the others have said: I think Hossenfelder is also an example of chasing YouTube popularity. And apparently many people are really into this anti-science, right-wing stuff. It probably also aligns somehow with her own values, but I’m pretty confident that this is beneficial to her streaming business.
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 4 weeks ago:
Your garage is basically like a natural cave and there are some species adapted to live in caves, such as various species of pillbugs, spiders, millipedes, … The isopod living in garages are mostly scavengers/detritivores, meaning they mainly eat dead or dying animals falling into your garage or other organic material they can find. They basically clean up for you.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 4 weeks ago:
Hm yes, I’m a very anxious person myself so that makes sense.
My theory for why I have to pee so often (not only lying down) is also that it was a strategy for me to cope with a very controlling household growing up where my needs were frequently dismissed or ignored.
- Comment on when hell freezes 4 weeks ago:
Yes, that’s why I said lifespan. That’s what the cited paper is about and it even goes to great lengths to exclude deaths by battles etc. But well, you seem to have made up your mind and not being open to expand your perspective. Annoying, but ultimately your problem. For me this discussion is over, bye.
- Comment on when hell freezes 4 weeks ago:
What you said about the nobility in medieval times interested me, so I looked into it:
In this paper they’ve looked at over 130,000 people in the European nobility between 800-1800 and found that there was an upwards trend in lifespan from around 50 to 60 years excluding violent deaths. So no, I don’t believe many people got 80 years old back then even though they had the best care of that time.
And what you say about our modern world regarding cancer rates etc is simply not something we’ve conclusively solved yet.
- Comment on when hell freezes 4 weeks ago:
Well, modern medicine builds on top of natural remedies, but it has standardized it and brought it to a whole new level. People get incredibly old and survive many diseases thought of as incurable a hundred years ago because of modern medicine. Just looking at the similar ingredients in some medicine and nature is not helpful but naive.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 4 weeks ago:
Doing meditation or other relaxing exercise on my back is usually not so relaxing because of it :/
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 4 weeks ago:
Same, if I lay on straight my back for just a minute my bladder will start to nag me to go to toilet and it doesn’t matter that I’ve just peed a couple of times in the last half an hour…
- Comment on when hell freezes 4 weeks ago:
Ugh, at first they obviously sound pretty cool, but I feel like they are all about the aesthetic of changing the world, but with no actual approach to do so.
We relate to them because they had to stand by with their cannabis in their bag while the old white doctors came and put leeches on the son—the king’s epileptic son—when they had the medicine for that… In the same way, we have to stand back with our medicine and watch chemo and radiation sometimes kill people without the benefit of restoration from healing plants.
Nope, telling people with cancer just to smoke pot in actually doing cancer treatment is really bad and causes unnecessary deaths. Also, you aren’t like actual healers back then who had so much more experience in what they did.
We make medicine on a full moon and basically it’s more feminine for us to do it by moon cycle. Each product that we make comes with a sticker on the bottom to show what moon cycle we made it in. It’s a way of us coming together with the plant and Mother Nature and having that meditative time—being with the plant and making the medicine under the full moon. It just does something to us.
Like I said, it’s all about the aesthetic, not much else…
Big Pharma has caused a lot of heartache, and a lot of deaths, and a lot of unnecessary treatments where people have exacerbated their incomes and their financial ways of living—especially the poor, the marginalized, the people that can’t have access to this plant
Big pharma sure is evil, but instead of just blindly trusting in one plant to cure all and throwing all of medicine’s knowledge out we could also fight for systemic change and free medicine from the grasp of capitalism.
- Comment on when hell freezes 4 weeks ago:
Depends to what kind of church you go to. There are really nice old churches in Europe and even when they have a mass it is pretty relaxing, because European church service is much more boring than it is in most churches in the US I’d think. Basically just a person speaking in a monotone voice for an hour and sometimes everyone sings slow, monotone songs.
- Comment on Are you feeling lucky? 5 weeks ago:
Damn that’s good!
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Just to be clear:
1/4 of all mammal species are bat species.
But only a tiny fraction of all mammals are bats.
Or this might be a giant conspiracy and there are trillions of bats living in underground cave systems and only come out when no one is watching!