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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
So I would like someone to maybe try to confirm this, but I've been rightclicking and then opening in private browser if there is something I want to check out but don't want to dominate my feed.
However, I've been finding that I still am sometimes getting these things presented to me as if I care. I am beginning to suspect that YT is either a) tracking mouse coordinates and clicks, and using these or b) some kind of ip/ browser based finger printing that gets around private/ incognito browsing.
I'm on firefox, and running pop_os, so if any one else could weigh in anecdotally, I'm very interested.
I'm just constantly exhausted by having to reign this fantastical thinking in. Years of having to push back against this adolescent and mediocre drivel.
And we've made great progress. The narrative has truly shifted and people really have moved on their understanding that the Democrats and the manner in which they conduct themselves are fundamental to why fascism continues to accelerate. Not all of them, but its way better than where we were a year ago.
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 |