dantheclamman
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1·5 days agoThey’ve been bought out and gutted a couple times over. It’s very sad
1·5 days agoWelcome!
They needed a safe space for their ideas. Less scary stuff like pronouns that make their brains hurt
Arose from people misinterpreting unguligrade/digitigrade animals as having no knees, then people pointed out they do, so some guy was like but what if they didn’t?? Dunno where the lips came from, maybe just a parallel of not being able to eat normally to go along with not being able to walk normally
See also the cinereous (ashy) tit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinereous_tit
According to my history:
Depths of Wikipedia > Cow Tipping > Achlis > Hugag
She is deep in the depths. Finds amazing stuff! I am often tempted to re-post what she finds here, but it feels like cheating :D
I get what you’re saying, but he’s spent years investigating this subject, so it feels fair for him to be given some credit for it. No requirement that we name things after the literal person who discovered it, particularly because that’s often impossible to prove.
Even in CA, we had a Texan middle school teacher who drilled into our heads like a mantra that the Civil War was about disagreements over States’ rights/tariffs/etc.
we must go deeper
2·18 days agoNot really a YouTuber but I’ve always been curious what happened about a decade ago with Chris Ziegler from The Verge, who was an editor but then accepted a job at Apple on the side, and was then fired by both companies. He then disappeared entirely from the record and everyone got real quiet about it.
A tragedy is an event of great loss, usually of human life. Such an event is said to be tragic. Traditionally, the event would require “some element of moral failure, some flaw in character, or some extraordinary combination of elements” to be tragic.
To me this is tragic even in the Greek sense
A few of the many adaptations:
I feel like I agree that this often happens, and kind of aligns with how an ecosystem in stasis might gravitate towards some member species being dominant. But when a disturbance kicks in that structure is often overthrown, increasing diversity. So we need a good healthy disturbance to help pull these people off their pedestal!
Yes because much of these original art are in the public domain, they’ve spread everywhere! Really helped the idea to stick https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/
Related: the Valsava device, included when you can’t reach your nose! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valsalva_device
GOP representatives should be strapped down and forced to watch this Clockwork Orange style
Learned about this from The Holdovers
Using iNaturalist has taught me about the diversity of plants. You can pretty much instantly learn about if an environment is disturbed or not just looking at the plants around on the ground.
messily