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Ampersands are by far the best. People were like āhey, it takes a long time to write āetā so maybe letās shorten itā.
But thatās not even the best thing. Look at all of these. Look at how many different ways there are to represent the idea of āandā.
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I genuinely believe that the new SW trilogy wouldnāt have flopped out into irrelevance like it did if they hadnāt dumped Finn on the side of the freeway like a new pet rabbit the week after easter
Anyway in my heart Finn became a Jedi alongside Rey and inspired a Stormtrooper insurrection and Kyle Ron went back to his mom like he should have day fucking one and that angry redhead dude blew up with the star destroyer and Poe got to make it happen and at the end Rey doesnāt give a shit who her bitch ass non-palpatine parents might have been because she gets her new family like she needed and palpatine stays dead at the bottom of his musty hole like he should have and Finn and Poe give each other approximately 130% the amount of lingering meaningful looks and then one of their run-together-to-reunite moments results in a heat-of-the-moment make out like it should have and Luke and Leia meet in person a minimum of once so she can sibling slap him at least once for being a useless dramatic old hermit for a billion years and tell him to get the Chanel boots back on and stop being a sad hobo and then for no reason at all there is an ewok style moon of Endor forest party at the end like God intended
I need a turbo-Nerd to tell me why they dumped Finn like hot garbage.
"Racism"
I don't know how I'm ever expected to be normal again after watching this. this video is already lodging itself deep within my vocabulary as I type
stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household
i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.
What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?
It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.
My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict š
I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bushās war on Iraq, so I think that.
Princess Diana dying in a car accident. Then probably coming home from school and watching 9/11 happen on live TV.
The first big news story I remember is the shuttle Challenger explosion. I was 5, my brother would have been 3. My mom always put the space shuttle launches on the tv because we both loved space flight. Our uncle even worked on the shuttle program. To watch that tragedy in real time, and to feel the same confusion as the newscastersā¦ it was a major collective trauma felt by the US and even beyond.
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When people argue that food from Chinese and Mexican restaurants in the US are not 'real' representations of that culture's cuisine ignore the historical reality that these dishes were developed by diasporic communities striving to recreate the flavors of home with available resources. Such criticism frames adaptation as a loss of authenticity, rather than recognizing it as a sincere and evolving expression of culture by people separated from their homeland.
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One of the best letters Iāve ever seen just popped up on my Facebook memories. Still makes me laugh.
As today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, itās a great time to revisit Dinah from Devonās memory of this historic event. And yes, still makes me laugh.
Today is the 54th anniversary of the moon landing, but Dinahās diary entry is still absolutely magnificent.
57th anniversary of the moon landing and the best diary entry in the history of diary entries. Sit down Samuel Pepys, itās over. UGH.
Why this got me boppin at my desk tho lol
i saw this video and had to draw her check out afrococoapuffs, sheās amazing!
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a couple months ago someone sent me an ask asking if Iād ever heard of Boquila trifoliolata and I was like āno way. this canāt be realā and i looked it up and it was and I forgot about it until just now when my supervisor and I got sidetracked and I looked it up again to prove to her that itās real and found out that not only does this plant vaguely mimic the leaves of whatever plant itās vining on, it does it when it climbs on fake plants too so any theories about how it does it that include gene transfer or chemicals or touching it in any way are just out the window and those were like, the only theories the original researchers had about how it might be doing it. so anyway I am screaming and crying and whatnot
The more you read the better this gets ā from Krulwich, Nat Geo 2016:
Boquila feels more like a cuttlefish or an octopus; it can morph into at least eight basic shapes. When it glides up a bush or tree that itās never encountered before, it can still mimic whatās near. And thatās the wildest part: It doesnāt have to touch what it copies. It only has to be nearby. Most mimicry in the animal kingdom involves physical contact. But this plant can hangāliterally hangāalongside a host tree, with empty space between it and its model, and, with no eyes, nose, mouth, or brain, it can āseeā its neighbor and copy what it has āseen.ā
(Artifical plant modeling & c. discussed in White & Yamashita, Plant Signaling & Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2021.1977530)
Donāt like this at all! Thank you!!
One theory from that above White & Yamashita paper is that Boquila does this using plant ocelliāa very basic type of eye! If youāre interested in a brief infodump about ocelli: Many animals have ocelli, like jellyfish and insects. Hereās a picture of a wasp headāyou can see its two main eyes to the side, and those three dots in the middle are ocelli.
(Photo cred: Assafn, Wikipedia)
These ocelli donāt form sharp images, but instead probably detect light and shadow for sleep patterns, directionality, flight stability, etc.
Some reptiles and amphibians also have a light-sensitive third eye called a parietal or pineal eye! Itās similarly right on top of their heads. Again, theyāre not forming complex images, but instead use general light information to regulate other things. Itās also why even tame reptiles may bolt if you reach at them from directly overhead, out of range of their normal eyesāthat third eye sees an incoming shadow and goes HAWK, RUN.
So with that in mind, plant ocelliā¦Basically they think the upper epidermal cells have evolved to have a particular convex dome shape that focuses light. I donāt know what proportion of cells are ocelli, if itās just some or all, but basically the leaf itself IS the āeyeā.
Plant ocelli were first proposed over a century ago but they havenāt been well studied since then. Cyanobacteria (a photosynthetic bacteria) focus light. Arabidopsis thaliana has been documented to recognize other Arabidopsis plantsā¦basically when competing for resources, if the Arabidopsis recognizes itās competing with other Arabidopsis plants, theyāll cooperate and move leaves so that they donāt shade each other, ensuring each plant has access to nutrients. But if the competing plant isnāt Arabidopsis, screw āem, theyāll shade it. Crepy & Casal narrowed this down to a light-based response, not just chemical identification, so itās possible Arabidopsis is visually identifying friend from foe. At any rate, thatās about the extent of plant ocelli research that I was able to find. So this Boquila thing is cool and weird.
What we donāt yet know is how precisely Boquila is seeing the world. Boquila is clearly getting some level of resolution in order to be able to copy shape, size, AND color. Unlike an insectās 2-3 ocelli, it has tons, so even crude data over a lot of inputs might lead to a pretty good picture. The paper also says the mimicry gets more accurate over time, so there appears to be some learning involved. I would also love to know if it has some equivalent of depth perception! If the target plant is near vs. far, does Boquila produce the same appropriately sized mimic leaf? Does it adjust? Theyāre going to keep studying it so hopefully we have some answers in a few years!
Anyway hereās a picture of the variation of Boquila mimic leaves.
(Photo cred: Gianoli figure)
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On the one hand, this is fascinating, on the other hand āsome plants can see youā is a terrifying thought, thank you for this
stop using chatgpt!!!! take a bronze pin and carve your questions onto an ox scapula, then toss it into the fire!!!! use the cracks to divine the gods answer!!!!
citations still have to be APA 7th edition though. if you plagiarise, the gods will flood the yellow river again. and you'll lose your academic standing.
(The Gods, personal communication, July 18, 2024)
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You have became this medieval role, how do you feel about it
you are in the medieval era and you have this role!
How do you feel?
great!! I love this
good!
It's okay
So bad. I hate this
This is similar to my real job!
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#jeweler #at least I am gonna be rich
not to be dramatic but i need a nap, a hug, 20k in cash, and to disappear for 3 months
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Sagittarius A* photo
As of 3 July, 2026, this famous "first photo of a black hole" has been available to the public for longer than the Confederacy lasted.
"White people have no culture" is such a fascinating insult to me because it kind of implies that the person making the insult is so enmeshed in white (american) culture that they have become completely unable to recognize it as something other communities do not do, forest for the trees-style; and has never bothered to expand that perspective.
