Ancient DNA is pretty degraded, so it's hard to get an exact number. It's estimated they diverged more than 5 million years ago, so it's probably hundreds or thousands of different genes.
Scientists rewrote 14 key genes in gray wolf EPC cells to express 20 dire wolf traits meaning that "no ancient dire wolf DNA was actually spliced into the gray wolf's genome."
They're not browsers, but if you want lemmy in the terminal there's Neon Modem Overdrive, which also handles Discourse forums and some other sites. For emacs there's lem.el.
Fascist ideas don't spread because they make good points. They spread because they get repeated so much. People who don't know any better believe it because they've heard it so many times, or from someone they trust. Federating with fascists gives them more people to spread their ideas to.
Talking to conservatives can definitely help, but it really depends on the context. Just having people who they disagree with in their lives can can be helpful. If you're someone they trust you might get them to work through some things. Or if you know a topic really well and know what talking points they're likely to bring up. But it's nearly impossible to get though to people who already hate you.
Everyone is at a different place with what they want to handle. Some people just want a small friendly community where they have a chance to relax. Others want a more open communities that only keep out the worst. And some are okay with putting up with harassment to reach more people. But generally we shouldn't force others to put up with that harassment along with us.
I generally prefer to federate with as many communities as possible, but federating with fascists is a terrible idea. You're just making people in your community vulnerable to harassment.
People are self organizing onto these instances, and if they don't like their current one it's not hard to move. Most people won't move to one that allows nazis in.
There's also clauses about revoking your license if you try to sue them, and how you need to still include the system to pay them in your modified version.
I just want to add that it's not just the idea of gender being immutable, it's identity as a whole. So much of society is built around stuff like legal names. They use them to track and control people. And then trans people are out there deciding to change them just because we want to, or using prefered names that don't match our legal names. The idea that people can just decide who they want to be is threatening to them.
I haven't seen anything quite like that yet, but for federated music there's bandwagon.fm which is more of a bandcamp equivalent. There's a lot of fediverse projects, so it wouldn't suprise me if there's something out there.
Plenty of people still know or use the other meanings, and it's still based on common stereotypes. Reclaiming slurs only really works when it's done by the targeted group, and when the word is being used with positive connotations.
A lot of people like to think that everything will work out okay. It's easier to think everything will be fine than to focus on the terrible things that are happening.
Then on the other side you have people that know things are bad, but give up because they don't know how to fix things.
I think eventually we'll make it through this, but you can't just be passively hopeful.
Things are bad and will get worse. But tons of people are actively working together to prevent as much damage as possible, supporting each other, and working towards a better world. As things get worse, more people will try to find ways to help each other.
We need spiteful hope and stubborn optimism. There are always ways to make things better, no matter how bad they get.
They separated pretty far back, so they're about equally related to jackals, dogs, wild dogs, various wolf species, and coyotes.