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Reddit. Reddit is why I went and looked into koalas.
The three animal copy pastas, sunfish, koalas, and pandas just pissed me off because people started parroting the shit irl. They're all funny enough when everyone knows they're jokes based on bullshit, but people are stupid.
So, I went looking for more information. For the sunfish and pandas, there were already better anti-pastas available that came up after quick searches.
Not for koalas. I did find some later, after I made the initial comment, but when I first wrote up the parts I did, I couldn't find any. I later edited in links to the better counters when I discovered them.
But, for real, once I started hearing people wanting to charter a boat to go and find sunfish to throw rocks at, I started fuming. Same with the people that started opposing conservation efforts to pandas and koalas because of the bullshit in the copy pastas. Treating some text meme like educational material is just too damn much.
So, for years on reddit, I'd throw down the anti-pastas when they came up. Here on lemmy, I thought they had failed to follow people, but the last few months I've started seeing references to them again. I'm glad I didn't delete the files for them.
Koalas
a small overview about the chlamydia
and it isn't even something they causedit was from invasive species.
The reason koalas eat only eucalyptus isn't stupidity. It's niche evolution. They live in a place with high competition for resources. Having specialized digestive tracts and gut flora allows them to have a food source that isn't under competition. this is a benefit, not a failure. They literally eat something that is poisonous to pretty much every other species. That is an incredible evolutionary adaptation.
Their joeys eating pap is not exclusive to koalas either. It's not only found across the world, the exposure to the gut flora of the parent happens with most mammals, if in a less direct manner. You can even find a ton of information about what happens when human gut flora becomes unbalanced, and it isn't very pretty. It's just worse for koalas.
Not every species is a generalist, and we don't want them to be.
a note on why koalas bellow so much
As with most behaviors in other species, attributing human judgement and definitions tends to be misleading. While koalas are pretty unique in the lack of mating rituals, they're not doing it for human reasons. Nor are attempts to copulate outside of season as common as the pasta makes it seem. Besides, that's something humans actually do share with them besides the presence of fingerprints. It also isn't so rare in animals as to be remarkable. Copulation behaviors are used outside of mating by plenty of species for social reasons. It isn't in koalas, but since it does increase the chances of mating, it isn't a bad adaptation.
And the extra cerebro-spinal fluid isn't a special ed helmet, it's another adaptation found in other tree dwelling species. Why would an arboreal species having adaptations to mitigate risk from falls be a negative?
Yeah, I get it, the pasta is meant for entertainment, but it also spreads half truths, outright incorrect or outdated information, and skips over facts for the entertainment value. Then people read it and spout it out later as fact.
It's just a crappy copy pasta, not anything meant to be taken as truth, but people are more dumb than koalas.
This pasta in particular isn't the worst (the sunfish one takes the prize for being the most full of bull). Nor is it a bad thing to enjoy as entertainment. But for crying out loud people, don't take random, unsourced copy pasta as an educational tool.
Can't everyone?
Edit: everyone that can see things in their head in the first place
There's published stuff for after 20. We didn't use any of it, because the campaign was winding down. It all came to a nice ending, so wrapping up was more a matter of mutual storytelling than any dice rolls or challenges.
I ran a campaign that lasted several years and everyone went to 20. Technically past 20, though we never did any of the epic stuff.
It was 3.5 though
Not much tbh.
My mom is probably the dumbest story.
See, she was a hippie back when that meant something. But after she married and settled down, she didn't smoke weed for a long time.
I got old enough to know some people, despite not being able to smoke it myself, and she wanted some to kinda relive the old days post-divorce. So I got her a quarter.
Welllll, she decided to roll herself up a fat fucking joint. Nice, right! We're talking a joint of the best hydro in three counties. She then proceeded to smoke the entire fucking thing. It was as thick as a pencil.
She's giggling, and then laughing at everything.
And then it really hits. She crawls to her bed saying "I don't know what to do-hoo-hoo-hoo" because she is so fucking greened out that the whole world is spinning every time she breathes and her rocking chair moves because of it.
She's laying on the bed eventually, and has to keep one foot on the floor because if she doesn't, the world is going to speed up and fly away. So she keeps hitting the brakes with that foot.
There's about an hour of that, mixed in with moans and me trying to keep her calm because every time she makes the mistake of moving, she panics. She didn't want to fly away into space.
I actually called the guy I got it from and asked if he put something in that shit. I'd been around stoners and had never seen anything like that. He asked some questions and eventually started laughing himself because nobody smokes that much of weed that potent and doesn't get their face melted. He explained that one toke would have been plenty, even for regular smokers.
But, yeah, it took her about five hours to get back to the point she could just pass out and sleep for twelve hours.
How the fuck was I supposed to know it was some kind of crazy shit, or that she would react like that?
Now, when she's being twatish, I just ask her if she wants to fly off into space, and she gets all pissed off and splutters
Tbh, if I could log in to my piefed account on my preferred app, I'd use it actively instead of only when I'm on my laptop and need a break from what I'm actually doing.
I just don't like the browser experience of lemmy or piefed. Not even with the tweaked UIs out there.
But, there were sex scenes.
I get the movie, and I don't hate it. But it's kinda meh to me. If it's on, I'm not going out of my way to ask that it be cut off, but I won't watch it on my own either.
I'm fine with the prequels, and I'm old enough to have seen a New Hope before it was called a New Hope. In the theaters even, though I didn't actually see it there. I don't think the prequels are as good as the originals overall, but I enjoy watching them every few years.
But you're right, the prequels are almost always split on generational lines. Most of us old farts don't like them.
Well, as a movie, it's a good movie. Great directing, incredible acting (for the era), with a dynamic and well paced story. It holds up in technical terms despite the shifts in style and performance that have happened over the years.
If you hum really hard during the racist parts, you could still call it one of the greats. And it isn't like it's "birth of a nation" bad in that regard. There's way worse movies out there from the era, and the era before that was horrible on average.
The standard of proof to prosecute a hate crime is higher than that of assault and battery.
It isn't impossible to have a hate crime tagged onto a fight, but if there's no supporting evidence, chances are lower, and if there's evidence the fight was about something else, lower still.
Like, if you're yelling at the asshole about spilling your beer, and then it turns into a fight, you'd have to fuck up to have the hate charge added on. If you had a history of bigotry to whatever class that person is, or something along those lines.
I'm not saying you couldn't run into a prosecutor with an axe to grind or whatever, but it is less common
Nazis are not a protected class yet.
Oh, fuck, the Taliban bit got me. That was hilarious. I'm having trouble typing from laughing.
Well, he was paralysed, so he didn't feel any of it. One of the rare upsides of paralysis.
Some patients though, me geeking out over what was going on helped. They'd be scared and hurting, and then some guy comes in and is just chatting casually and talking about what's going on, giving a play by play, and is happy to be there, it makes it harder to dread what's happening. If I'm not upset and worried, it must not be that bad.
I definitely had to learn what not to say though
Isn't it cool? Evolution takes life into the most complex and amazing places