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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name. Cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name "thagomizer" in 1982 as a joke in his comic strip The Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term sometimes used within scientific circles, research, and education.

I love everything about this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

A game theory.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Not peki for sure; it's mostly a cerrado fruit. It does grow in nearby biomes but OP's plant is simply too far from that (Southeast Ecuador).

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Reverse evolution" is simply normal evolution: mutation, selection, inheritance, in some order. It doesn't "march" in one or another direction, that's simply how we interpret it.

And, if I'm parsing the paper right, the mutation itself wasn't even reverted. It's just that additional mutations made the relevant enzyme behave more like it used to. Like twisting a wire twice, you know?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did use the first LMDE for some time, and I loved it, it's a great distro. I don't recall why I went for the Ubuntu-based Mint later on, I think it was the PPAs?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

From what I remember*, there was always some rough corner. Such as the wi-fi, or the graphics card. Sure, Stable was rock solid, but you always needed something from Testing; and Testing in general was overall less stable than Ubuntu or Mint.

*This was years ago, so it might be inaccurate as of 2025.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Mint is Ubuntu minus everything that makes Ubuntu annoying. That's why I like it.

I considered to go back to Debian but... eh, I'm too old and impatient for that. Nowadays I mostly want things that work out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Pretty much - they're lying it would introduce huge production costs, because most people who'd repeat this argument wouldn't know they're being lied to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So genocide white-washing, pro-authoritarianism degenerates who routinely support regimes [...] are worse than neoliberals?

Neoliberalism does both, to a bigger degree, and more. And it has the power to enforce them.

So, yes, neoliberals are a bigger problem than a bunch of brainrot muppets babbling "smh literally 1984 mayocide when CRIRICAL SUPPORRT TO COMRADE CHRUMP lol lmao haha". Elephant shit vs. cat shit - both are shit, but different levels of shit.

that are in no way leftist // Other than online roleplay, how are they even leftist?

I'm not playing this "let's masturbate over definitions" game for the sake of your dumb red herring. If someone is a communist or an anarchist, I'm calling them leftist. (Except ancaps for obvious reasons.)

Relevant to note that, if I had my own instance, I'd probably defederate Hexbear; their tendency to raid threads as a group is disruptive. I'm mostly ~~relying~~ relaying what I've seen db0 saying, about his reasons to not defederate them from his instance.

You need learn a bit more about the world (outside of the internet).

Why don't you follow the advice you're vomiting? Do it.

Then even you will probably learn that "A is bad and B is bad" is NOT the same as "A is as bad as B".

Now shoo. Not wasting my time further with you. *yawn*

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I got the demo, expecting something like "Stardew Valley meets Factorio", and so far, it's... okay, I guess?

Still early access so it has plenty issues; for example it's unclear what gatherers do with the crops (if I'm nearby they pop up in my inventory, otherwise I guess they teleport to the storehouse?), and I keep losing track of my cursor because the game focuses on what's close to the player avatar. But it might be a cool game in the future, dunno.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

My guess is that the taste of non-avian dinos would vary quite a bit:

  • large herbivores would probably taste similar to beef, venison and cheval, except really gamey. Because it's what people who ate ostrich say about its meat, it isn't chicken-like at all.
  • smaller ones could perhaps taste like birds? Specially if omnivorous.
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Then as you want to wash your hand...

A tabby resting comfortably inside a bathroom sink, looking at the viewer.

(She used to love sleeping there. )

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