science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.
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science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.
scientists on this post: yuuuup đ
people who aren't scientists: um actually âď¸

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He's on a quest
Thatâs just Odin.
Sometimes he is just not subtle.
My math teacher sent this to the math group chat (read d/m/y)
fucking superb
u know that thing where an animals grow in a far off place and some idiot introduces him to a new habitat and it turns out its characteristics that help them in their own sometimes are too helpful in the new one and they become like an invasive species yeah thats the word i was missing anyway back to my point i think i saw a human version of that just now i was driving in tonights snow storm and i saw a man wearing a big ass cowboy hat to keep the snow off him and a bandit red bandana to keep it off his face and a big ass pancho to keep him warm and nice ass cowboy boots to keep his calves dry and he was prancing along while everyone on the road looked miserable and frozen solid and idk i guess the point im trying to make here is i feel like cowboys would have taken over russia if given the chance or something
As an Evolutionary Biologist, this is a roller-coaster from start to finish.
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this is sort of how i pictured this line when i first read it, and now i realize this is exactly how Crow would describe his experience; riddled with inconsistency and exaggeration. (Az is not buying it hahah)
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honestly pointing out that wellerman is a work song about having a shit job with a shit employer and that it isnât some kind of endorsement of the slave trade is valid and all but like
are we not going to talk about how ridiculous the idea of âcancellingâ a song from the 19th century for having problematic themes is
broke: you should stop singing or listening to the wellerman because itâs about the slave trade and suppression of native maori woke: wellerman is literally about working in indentured servitude for an oppressive company and isnât a fucking endoresement of that do you even understand what work songs are, like, as a genre jesus give me strength bespoke: debating the moral purity of a song from the 19th century is fucking stupid
@karmenofchaos @banjedo I thought they were KIDDING about the discourse about Wellerman
they are not!
yes, the company wellerman was oppressing maori people, but in a lot of ways itâs like how amazon is now. the people that work there have no choice but to work there, and they themselves canât do anything about the fact that itâs oppressing another group because they need money to live, because thatâs how capitalistic monopolies work.
you are correct! it is also important to note roughly 1/3 of the shore whalers involved here were themselves native maori and would have joined in with singing âsoon mr. fuckface will come back and give me the tea he pays me in lieu of actual money. hopefully someday i can stop cutting out whale tongues and fuckinâ LEAVE! if weâre really lucky heâll get killed by a whale!â no part of this song is remotely positive towards the weller brothers, let alone âglorifying violence against maoriâ or whatever the fuck. but the point remains that trying to cancel a song from the 1800s for referencing problematic themes is really really stupid because itâs acting like a) a colonialist-era work song referencing the colonialist system in which they worked is somehow news and b) that it would be at all reasonable to expect otherwise. âthereâs stuff about the 1800s in my song from the 1800s!â oh word? on god?
If anyone does feel inspired to learn the historical background of the Wellerâs whaling station at Ĺtakou, and what life was like, here is a thesis about that very thing
I love how perfectly you have nailed this summary: âsoon mr. fuckface will come back and give me the tea he pays me in lieu of actual money. hopefully someday i can stop cutting out whale tongues and fuckinâ LEAVE! if weâre really lucky heâll get killed by a whale!â
Work songs are fun. They are also the chirpy malicious-compliance way of making rightful grievances about your inhumane job while the managers donât bother to listen to the words.
âthereâs stuff about the 1800s in my song from the 1800s!â oh word?
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Heâs gone walkaboutâŚ.
Look can cephalapods pick a later time to start evolving into land animals, weâve got enough going on right now.
Get the fuck back in the water, grandpa
Itâs the apocalypse they have to start now for splatoon
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Fun fact! Water actually turns âblood redâ when it is contaminated by sulfur creating sulfuric acid. And scientists have discovered that around the time of the plagues a volcano went off that disturbed Egyptâs environment. So the plagues are scientifically proven. The other parts of the plagues are explained by the sulfuric acid river making the animals leave the river and escaping into the human population.
WHY DIDNT ANYONE TELL ME THE PLAGUES WERE PROVEN
if anyone wants a full list heres how they happened:
basically they all stem from a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of santorini off the coast of greece. the ash then floated over to egypt which kickstarted the plagues
1) blood: the ash carried the mineral cinnabar, which has the capability of turning water red
2) frogs: the ash also had many toxic and acidic substances so naturally, all the frogs are gonna flee the river
3) lice: given what was going on insects would have burrowed into dead animals/peoples skin and laid eggs, which then hatched
4) beasts: everything is getting poisoned from the ash and toxins, causing animals to freak the fuck out/die
5) pestilence: toxins again
6) boils: the ash would have caused storms that carried acid rain which when it fell, would irritate peoples skin causing boils
7) hail: the storm again
8) locusts: again with the insects and the amount of dead bodies and such which attract more insects. a lotta insects basically.
9) darkness: the ash covered the sky, blocking out the sun
10) slaying of the first born: given that childrenâs bodies were found in higher numbers than others, some archeologists think they may have been sacrificed to stop all the destruction, but they arenât 100% sure about that. this is just me but I would say another possibility is that babies/kids are a lot more susceptible to toxins and shit, so while an adult may have been fine or gotten a bit sick, it might have been very dangerous/deadly for kids or babies
the volcano would also attest for the parting of the sea weirdly enough. the red sea was in fact the âreedâ sea, and was very shallow, probably waist deep or so. given the amount of shit dumped into the ocean from the volcano, this wouldve caused a tsunami to head towards egypt. the water would get sucked out from the reed sea right before the tsunami hit, letting people pass it easily, then the actual tsunami would hit, fuckin up anyone who tried to follow.
another theory is that the red water was caused by algae, which would cause the frogs and stuff to jump out as well. the algae also carried substances toxic to animals so if they ingested any theyâd get sick and die, so more insects. in this theory there was a sand storm coincidentally that caused the rest
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The volcano wasnât ON Santorini - it WAS Santorini, then called Thera. It completely blew away the Minoan settlements on the island and was one of the largest eruptions in human history.Â
The tsunamis from the Theran eruption devastated Crete, weakening the then-powerful Minoan civilization, leaving them open to being invaded by the Mycenaeans.
The volcanic winter it created devastated crops in China leading to the fall of the Xia Dynasty.Â
The abrupt and catastrophic loss of the people of Thera may have also inspired the myths about Atlantis.
this is blowing my fucking mind
I love that if you really boil all this information down, what you get is something approximating âthe sinking of Atlantis caused the 10 Biblical plagues of Egyptâ which is, like, one of the greatest mythological mash-ups I have ever heard of.

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Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.
i wonder what they are dreaming about
Changing colors duh
Whatâs really cool about this is that cephalopod (octopus, squid, etc.) intelligence evolved completely separately from intelligence in tetrapods (which includes primates, dolphins, crows⌠basically any other intelligent animals you can think of). Cephalopods are very, very far away from us on the tree of life. For context, you and a starfish are more closely related than you and an octopus. The last common ancestor of humans and cephalopods was the so-called Urbilaterian, the hypothetical first animal with a left-right symmetric body. This animal almost certainly had, at most, an extremely simple nervous system, without anything resembling a brain.
All this is to say that the fact that this octopus appears to be dreaming means one of two things. Either
a) dreaming is a very, very old thing indeed, going directly back to the Urbilaterian. This would mean that almost every animal, from insects to starfish to sea slugs to newts, is likely to have the ability to dream in some capacity or another (unless they have specifically lost it by evolutionary simplification).
or
b) dreaming evolved entirely independently in cephalopods when they developed greater intelligence. This would suggest, at least, that thereâs something very fundamental about dreaming related to intelligence itself, which causes it to emerge independently when sufficient intelligence arises.
Needless to say, either of these outcomes would be really very cool.
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