Tlaloc_Temporal @ Tlaloc_Temporal @lemmy.ca

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Seems like Cromebook mode to me. There's a niche of super light interchangeable tablets or notebooks I could see that working on, but nothing MS makes is light except the theme.

"You like pets? Name every pet!"

"Eukaryota"

I thought I had read something about this, but I can't find a source, so take this with some salt.

Even big cats chitter, and while sometimes there's a social aspect where other cats are alerted to the hunt, not all big cats hunt in groups. So I think they chitter to warm their jaws up. Like streatching before exercising, or the jitters you get from adrenaline, the rapid movements ensure they can bite at maximum strength quickly, and without pulling a muscle.

Crackly blue is water? I'd even think ice before water.

Technically, this is processed cake. Yellow cake that is.

That's amazing, I love it.

As a Canadian, I share your confusion. I think that phrase was just a common descriptor of mitochondria in US textbooks, or a catchy line in a popular US biology video.

It's just strange enough to make a big impression on bored students, so I'm not surprised it's been memed so hard.

This isn't learned behaviour though. The kites tried eating the invasive snails immediately, but they were too large to be cracked by their beaks, being two to five times larger.

The change to eating the larger non-native snails was facilitated by larger beaks seen in the years after the invasion.

It seems like the local applesnail had a crash due to drought in the early 2000's (partly caused by the draining of wetlands for development), and the invasive island applesnail was first seen in 2004. There are even more species of invasive snail now, but the opportunity likely arose because of a population crash.

The fittest in this case are the kits that can eat the snails they find, not by being less picky, but by having larger beaks.

Evolution is just the change in allele frequency of a population over generations. This includes 90% of the population dying before they figure out new food.

Polio would be really bad. I shudder to think about scarlet fever.

Cats were originally used for their curiosity, but training hamsters and eventually parakeets led to much smaller machines.

Capital gains tax or Land Value Tax would be more interesting.

By that argument, most of these should be black.

Selecting one wavelength are discarding all the others, and sometimes shifting that wavelength to a more convenient hue is great for science, but feels like cheating when looking for a specific colour.

It's like looking for pictures of red cars, and getting a car that's 90% rust, a picture taken in a forest fire, and a picture taken through red-tinted glass.

Hey! I'm using one of those devices!

Or just that it needs to focus on from of itself like filter crabs, or that it needs to see through things like kelp forests or hole enterances.

Given it's size and the extreme binocular vision, it's unlikely to have any ambush predators.

I looked it up, it has bony plates all over it's body and likely a lateral line, so seeing predators directly may have been less necessary. It was also a suction feeder, so likely an active predator of much smaller things. It may have needed good forward vision because it's maneuverability was poor.

Ironically, Stockholm syndrome is named after an event where hostages in a bank robbery were treated with contempt from the police and government. They spent six days having the police point guns at them and the prime minister telling them to be content with dying. The robbers treated them rather well, especially in comparison to the authorities.

Capitalism makes for a much worse captor. I think it has more in common with a cult, constantly spinning a narrative of how it makes your life better and without it you'll live a wretched life. How people outside of it are evil savages, and how they're coming for your peace and quiet. How life under capitalism is the best you can do, even if it isn't perfect.

I'd argue that we can't do a resurrection because that's really complex, not because we don't know how.

I'll also point out that there are people alive today who were declared medically dead that live normal lives because we made their heart beat again.

More wheels is also good on low traction surfaces, or to reduce ground pressure. An extra axel can also reduce the chance of beaching on rough terrain.

Well, not quite. Rust eats into iron because oxidised iron is larger and much more brittle than unoxidised iron, physically ripping itself out of place.

Many oxides arent that much larger than their base metals and form a nice patina protecting the metal underneath, like in aluminium.

Other oxides destroy the structural integrity of the metal and eat into it, forming corrosion. Rust is just corrosion specific to iron.