TropicalDingdong @ TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world

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Inferometrics are kind of nuts.

Without even reading the paper, I'll bet they are basing this on the work Katie Bouman did with her developments for black hole imaging.

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Trump:

Somewhat, but keep in mind, its a half decade of study to develop the understanding. Also, trying to create parallels between how plants do sex and how animals do sex, thats going to throw you off. Plants do sex in a fundamentally different way than how animals do sex.

The basic trajectory in the evolution of land plants has between towards additional layers around the gametophytic generation, and additional investment in that generation. Animals, like us, have a unicellular gametic generation (sperm and eggs). Plants, well, its complicated.. Basically, when plants first came onto land, the haploid, gametic generation was the "big obvious plant" thing, but that switched at a certain point. So its just not possible to map plant evolution onto animal evolution.

Early land plants invested very very little into the next generation. It was all spores, single cells, which then had to establish themselves without any support from the parent generation. But the haploid generation was the dominant plant part. These plants are still with us today in the form of mosses and liverworts.

In liverworts and mosses, its still the N generation that is the dominant plant part, and the 2N generation is totally dependent on the N generation. This all got flipped on its head when plants developed vascularization, and the 2N generation became the dominant plant part.

    
PLANT EVOLUTIONARY TIMELINE FOR SEED COMPONENTS

| MYA   | Evolutionary Step                 | Seed Component         | Definition                                                      | Dominant Plant Body |
|-------|----------------------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------|
| ~470  | Earliest land plants              | —                      | Non-vascular; liverwort-like                                     | N (haploid)          |
| ~430  | Vascular tissue appears           | —                      | Enables upright growth, fluid transport                          | 2N (diploid)         |
| ~420  | Sporangia                         | Megasporangium begins  | Spore-producing structures (seen in Rhyniophytes, Lycophytes)    | 2N                   |
| ~410  | Heterospory                       | Functional megaspore   | Plants make large (mega) and small (micro) spores                | 2N                   |
| ~385  | Runcaria                          | Integument precursor   | Fossil shows integumented megasporangium, no fertilization yet   | 2N                   |
| ~365  | Seed ferns (Pteridosperms)       | Ovule (true seed)      | Integumented, indehiscent megasporangium with 1 megaspore        | 2N                   |
| ~360  | Early gymnosperms                | Full seed              | Retained embryo + full protective tissue                         | 2N                   |
| ~320  | Gymnosperm radiation             | —                      | Conifers, cycads diversify                                       | 2N                   |
| ~140  | Angiosperms (flowering plants)   | —                      | Double fertilization, fruit, enclosed ovules                     | 2N                   |


  

A seed is an integumented indehiscent megasporangium with one functional megaspore.

It doesn't have an ambiguous definition, and we know, without any uncertainty, that it evolved precisely once.

You can convince people to take action,

I think thats something different. What I'm speaking to is that if you haven't decided your "side" in the year of our lord, Anno Domini two thousand twenty four, you aren't paying attention.

The battle lines are basically "drawn" and there isn't really substantial movement from one side to the other. Its all about driving your side to show up, but that activation is a totally and completely separation thing than which side you identify with.

You out there?

GET IN THE ECHOCHAMBER BEFORE THE HATCH CLOSES!!!

What already fascist-leaning member of the military will be swayed by labeling Noem a hypocrite? We have a felon in the White House. The lines are drawn and the sides have been picked.

I think this same argument can be extended to the left leaning/ Democrat-ish. There are no minds yet to be changed. If you haven't had your mind changed, you aren't going to.

Integumented indehiscent mega sporangium with one functional megaspore?

Once.

But once is all you need.

Fighting back is the only thing that works. Look at 2020. Fighting back effectively kept the number of Trump W's in that time in the single digits.

The absolute cowardice and cuckoldry the Democrats have shown isn't a path to stopping fascism. Time to dust off your gear from 2019 folks.

please do not stop spamming reposts

Man I really don't want to root for Newsom.

Because its the only interaction I can think of that they might have access to. And I know some websites do this. I'm opening them in private windows because I specifically don't want them to get into my feed, and the only interaction I'm having is to move my cursor over them and then to right click.

So I'm as hardened as I think I can get on Firefox.

My real suspicion is that its tracking cursor positions. I've been trying to figure out an experimental design I could use to confirm this.

DNC leadership seeing a -10% net favorability rating:

Okay but so how is activity I'm doing in private mode relating back to non-private mode? Are they tracking mouse activity? Is this browser finger printing? How would I be able to figure that out?

Also like, why are you getting your fingers in brine/ syrup that is going to stay in the jar? Thats gross.

Also, holup.

Are you just straight mackin' Maraschino cherries?