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When ants die, a few days later they emit oleic acid, which tells the living ants to dispose of their corpse.
A myrmecologist named Ed Wilson discovered this and dropped the chemical on a living ant. It was immediately carried off, despite the fact that it was still moving, and clearly not dead.
āIāM GETTING BETTERā
Bring out your dead. Eh, close enough.
IM NOT YET DEAD SIR
You left out the part where the ant, believing HERSELF to be dead, stayed in self imposed exile in the ant graveyard until the acid wore off and she realized she was not supposed to be in the ant graveyard.
@finite-experience, this seems like the sort of thing youād like to see
Ant 1: To the ant graveyard with you
Ant 2: But Iām not dead
Ant 1: You smell dead
Ant 2: Fair enough
Ant 1: āI thought you were dead.ā
Ant 2, after acid wears off: āI got better.ā
Ant 2, returning to the colony: i lived bitch
This is the comfort and reassurance Spider-Man, reblog for endless amounts of tea and a reaffirming thumbs up
domestication syndrome is one of the coolest findings from recent genetics
Yes!
Basically scientists have found that if you start selecting for people-friendly animals, you see a bunch of hypothetically unrelated traits start showing up in all sorts of mammal species: floppy ears, piebald/patterned coats, etc.
This is true for everything from cows to dogs to rats! One of the coolest long term studies on this has been the Russian fox experiments.
So essentially the science goes like this:
You have two copies of every genes, one from each parent.
We tend to simplify genetics, and say that for every single gene you have it is random,l coin flip which copy you pass on to you offspring. We also tend think of genes as a 1:1 ratio of genesā>traits.
But! This is not quite the case.
Genes have a specific physical location and order relative to each other on your chromosomes, and the chance of genes being inherited together goes up the closer together they are located. This means random, unrelated traits can wind up being more commonly inherited together in specific patterns just because those genes are located close together, and you donāt get that completely random reshuffling of two parentās traits. Some of them tend to stay āstuckā together.
This is called linkage, and itās why you often see red hair, pale skin, and freckles together, for example.
The second factor that plays into this is that a lot of times 1 gene affects several different traits (or several different genes affect 1 trait). This means that sometimes you really *canāt* untangle two traits because they have a similar cause. For example, say genes for increased aggression are responsible both for making a spider a better hunter (pro) and making a spider more likely to eat its offspring (con). Because the same gene is the cause of both things, natural selection canāt really untangle them.
Circling back to the redhead/freckles/pale skin example, these traits are affected by a number of different genes, but also one gene in particular: MCR1, a gene that changes how your body responds to hormones promoting melanin production. Again, one gene related to pigment production can affect a BUNCH of different traits. (And also skin cancer risk. Fun!)
Domestication Syndrome in mammals turns out to be due to both linkage and genes affect by multiple traits!
See, when we domestic animals we want them to be friendlier/less aggressive, which normally translates to less FEARFUL.
And it turns out that the same genes involved in adrenal responses and other stress reactions are also involved in melanin, cartilage, and bone production. So when we domesticate animals we get these recurring changes in pigmentation (white patches, piebald costs), floppy ears (cartilage), shorter muzzles and other changes in physical stature (bone growth), etc.
We also wind up selecting for a lot of neotenic genes in generalā that is, retention of childhood traits into adulthood. Thatās because baby animals tend to have lots of friendly/trusting/biddable/curious traits we are looking for.
And honestly, who can say no to a face like this?
ps, since it was mentioned:
the same genes involved in domestication probably help animals form social groups in general. if you need to get along with and trust strangers you need a decrease in the panic/aggression genes.
cats, for example, probably domesticated themselves when they started living close to each other and to humans to feed off of pests in grain silos.
and yeah, some some recent theories suggest humans may have ādomesticatedā themselves:
so basically youāre saying that when we breed animals to be friends, they become friend-shaped.
purely by accident.Ā
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every year around christmas me and my grandma play this fun family game called āmaybe you want to put jesus in your room instead, sweetie? :)ā. now, itās important to note that the jesus referred to in our game is not actually the real jesus christ, but instead a wooden figure i made in 2011 that has an uncanny resemblance to the lord and savior himself
so what happens is that i place jesus in our living room, and my grandma smiles and asks me if i donāt want to decorate my room with him instead. i ask her in return if she thinks my jesus figure is ugly (which he is), but she reassures me that this is not the case. however, a couple of days later jesus mysteriously disappears from our living room, and appear in my room instead
now, the real jesus christ might have been able to perform a miracle like this, but please remember that the jesus in our story is only a figure made out of wood. he can not move on his own, so i think we can safely say that my grandma is the prime suspect here
the first year i would often confront my grandma about this, but she would always make up an excuse and never straight up tell me she moved him because heās so ugly itās an embarrassment to the family
eventually i grew tired of her lies, so now we only move jesus around in silence. one second heās in the living room, the next heās back in my room. in a way i think this adds an extra element of excitement to the holiday season, because you never know for sure when jesus is going to be moved again
and so it begins..
i was not fucking ready for this photograph
⦠this photo makes the whole thing so much better and I cannot stop laughing help I need oxygen

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equal. pay.
Equal pay wouldnt do at this point... I say we swap the men's and women's soccer team budget, pay, facilities and merchandising agreements!
Honestly, in my work as a therapist, Iām seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still donāt have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist ācreate your own Purposeā tempered with āwhen the planeās going down, put your own oxygen mask on firstā, but⦠yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.
This is one of those areas where like on the one hand as a chronic moderate-severe depressive this shit hits me hard and on the other Iām watching people technically more mentally healthy than me struggle with the vast pointless mess of existence for the first time and itās a trip.
Some tips from the inside, in case they help:
- life has always been pointless. Or rather, we have always been unable to control the relative point-fulness of life. The factors involved in opening the possibilities of who can have a large scale impact where are so insanely complex that they can at best only be pieced together imperfectly in retrospect
- the only thing that has changed is your awareness of this fact. No, seriously. The sun will eventually swallow the planet; at any moment without our knowledge or control the sun could flare in weird ways that will kill us all; etc. There was geopolitical and socioeconomic fuckery as bad or worse going on before: you just didnāt see it. Promise.
- you do what you can with what you have. You do whatās in front of you. Humanity has survived all of this before; it may survive it again. It may not. You can only do what you can: take what lessons exist from the past and apply them.
- sometimes it is just that bad and they are totally out to get you. The question is, what do you do about it?
- almost without exception in human history the answer has been ābuild community; support the one you have; reach out to connect MORE and to make the world more kind and less hateful than before.ā
- recognize youāre trying to tackle god-level problems with a brain originally meant for keeping small proto-fish from being eaten. Treat that part of your brain like a very anxious toddler or rescue pitbull. Give it small measurable victories and successes even if you have to make them up. Make sure itās fed and watered and has enough rest. Medicate it if you have to - thereās nothing wrong with that. The opposite, in fact.
We are hairless plains apes living in a thin skin of atmosphere between spinning liquid superheated death and the void of absolute cold, sustained by the radiation of a supermassive explosion that will kill us at the slightest excuse. We have always been unlikely and implausible and probably doomed which means every moment we are able to live, thrive and help others do so is an incredible victory. Donāt quit now. ā¤ļø
Holy fuck I needed this
Kindle the Light, Shelter the Light, Protect the Light, Be the Light.
We can none of us save the world alone, we can only save each other: by thus is the world saved.Ā Everyone helps someone.
Fix what is within your reach. Somedays, all you will accomplish is converting oxygen to carbon dioxide, and thereās a plant somewhere nearby that appreciates your efforts.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
ORGANIZE
As a certified barista of the depresso espresso let me give tell you:
The only thing that matters is helping other people.
The stars are gonna burn out, weāre all gonna die someday. You canāt stop it.
You can make the person sitting next to you have a better day.
You can help a child with their homework.
You can give a jacket to someone who didnāt have one.
The universe is cold. In fact the universe may be slowly freezing.
And itās an act of tremendous defiance and solidarity to reach out your hand and share warmth with someone who needs it.
Take light into dark spaces.
Be too fond of the stars to be fearful of the night.
I answer for no one.
A helpful guide to some common birds here in the western US
Here are a few more, for your birding needs:
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Thank you for your contribution to the birding community
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@elodieunderglass Important birds!
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How much for this stick I can shake at God?
10 bucks
can i get these three backscratchers with a bundle discount
15% discount for 3 or more
How bout this book? I think itās look cool with a cosplay Iām planning
40 bucks but never attempt to read or open it
How much is the doll?
Oh that? Just take it. Take it far far away and do not allow it to return
How about this?
$29.99. Just be careful not to leave the candles burning at night, the gremlin comes alive and likes to wander around and go through your stuff
Hey this chair looks cool, how much?
the chair chooses its owner. sit down and see if it likes you
How bout this
Excuse me thatās my great-uncle, he is family
What about this?
thatās not a sale item, thatās my dang lunch
How much is this neat tea set?
OH GODS YOUāVE SET THEM LOOSE

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A few years back, I was a waitress at a breakfast diner. On the menus there are pictures of omelettes. The omelettes pictured are yellow.
Itās 11 at night, I get the last table before closing, and itās a girl my age. She asks for tea and an egg white omelette. So I bring over her egg white omelette, and she starts screaming. Why? Because itās not yellow like in the picture on the menu, itās white, so something must be wrong. I explained that the yolk is what makes omelettes yellow, and she didnāt want egg yolks. Sheās still mad, and yells again. And then realizes she could eat while sheās yelling, so she does, and I get to watch her chew with her mouth open while she rants about eggs. Iām exhausted and dying inside. She finally stops. I ask if she wants a refill of tea, and she says yes. Sheās quiet for the rest of her meal, for which I am very grateful.
After she paid and left, I collected her receipt. On it, she wrote in all caps āI DONāT UNDERSTAND HOW EGGS WORK BUT IT WAS YUMMY.ā She left a $20 bill on the table as a tip.Ā She also left some pills in a bag that my manager sent to the police, which were identified as some sort of amphetamine.Ā
Donāt do drugs kids, youāll forget how eggs work.
your boss canāt garnish your tips like that
you know what iāve never seen. one of those really big trees. like the massive ones in california. i feel like if i saw one iād start crying immediately
trust me when i say i would be going absolutely apeshit if i was this kid
tell me this doesnāt fill you with some latent animal urge to scuttle your way to the canopy and check for predators
We went there last summer.
The scale of these trees justā¦breaks your brain. Cameras cannot convey what it is like to stand at the base of one of these things. Each tree is the biggest fucking tree youāve ever seen and theres justā¦.an entire forest of the fucking things. Hundreds of years old, hundreds of feet high.
gonna go stand in a creek do you guys need anything
god finally a reasonable request
For reference, my players are attempting a casino heist in a scifi setting.
Player 1: can I attempt to hack the slot machines?
Player 2: Did you just say SLUT machines?
Player 1: What? No, thatās not a thing!
Me (dm): I mean, this is the distant future. Pleasure bots are probably a thing. Only now they are definitely called slut machines.

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hereās my hot take
you forgot someone.
orange juice is the superior beverage bc it makes ur tongue feel like u ate a bunch of ants which reminds me of my childhood when I would put ants in my mouth and eat em except this time it tastes good too
Hey op I think youāre probably allergic to citrus?
is. this not what oj is supposed to make ur tongue feel like