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A wizened old man returns to his family's hut after many days away. He slowly unwraps his furs and settles himself down on his favorite stool, motioning his children over to him. "I have found great treasure," he tells them and carefully sets down three banana runts before their awestruck eyes. "These are our only memories of the before times"
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Well I have to agree with her on this one. https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1285239347248336897
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Considering the psychological influence the moon had over humanity for forever (Lunacy) picking a fight with it right when you've got the jackboot stamping on your face is stupid.
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Jul 21, 2020 03:21
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Hey, Who is coming at mah boi, the FREAKING MOON? The Moon is legit. I better not see ANYONE throwing Shade on *points upwards* THAT MOON  I like the Moon
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Johnny Aztec posted:Hey, Who is coming at mah boi, the FREAKING MOON? I've got bad news for you about the frequency of lunar eclipses.
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Jul 21, 2020 04:35
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Elviscat posted:Current fungal bananapocalypse Of course in 2020.
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Jul 21, 2020 05:25
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Of course in 2020. It’s been spreading for over thirty years. It’s getting worse, but it’s a slow burn.
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Platystemon posted:It’s been spreading for over thirty years. Panama Disease all but wiped out the Gros Michael cultivar 60 odd years ago, but the Cavendish cultivar (modern regular banana) was developed, and everything's been good until last year (ish) when a strain of PD (TR4) surfaced in SE Asia, the fight now is to protect American plantations, but the disease has arrived on American shores, and based on the last go-round the Cavendish is screwed, barring a new cultivar being found or a vaccine being developed. E: Oh poo poo, discovered the year I was born, looks like containment efforts were pretty effective until recently. Elviscat has a new favorite as of 05:56 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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Jul 21, 2020 05:51
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Didn’t we already mostly lose one major banana cultivar, the one that artificial banana flavor is based on?
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Gros Michel, there's only a few plantations of them left. It's a really fascinating read, basically bananas suck to eat, except for a very few triploid cultivars, so they're all clones of each other and a fungus can just sweep through and murder all of them, same fungus lives in the ground for about ever, so you can't even re-plant destroyed plantations.
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Gros Michel isn’t like, gone, gone. They’re decently available in local markets in the tropics, especially in Southeast Asia. I myself have some healthy plants, and they’re isolated from others of their kind, so they can remain that way for a long time. Right now the bean counters at the big fruit multinationals think that fungal control is more profitable than transitioning to resistant cultivars, reworking their processes to accommodate them, and getting the public in the developed world to accept them. On some plantations, a quarter of all expenses go toward controlling a different fungus, black sigatoka. David McLaughlin, Chiquita’s senior director for environmental affairs said in 2003, “We supported a breeding program for forty years, but it wasn’t able to develop an alternative to Cavendish. It was very expensive and we got nothing back.” concluding “We concentrate on research into fungicides now.” To be clear, there are over two thousand named varieties of edible bananas, it’s just that none of them are “exactly like Cavendish, but resistant to Panama Disease”. There’s also not a great deal of genetic diversity within groups, so while there are thousand of cultivars, many of them are susceptible to the same common diseases. In the extreme case, there are close to a hundred cultivars of East African Highland Bananas, all descended from a single clonal ancestor brought to the region about two millennia ago. The fruit companies have left the banana breeding to national governments, mostly in the global south, which can ill afford it but who have to try because bananas aren’t an exotic treat to them. They’re the staff of life. Plants don’t fight infection the same way animals do, so there are no vaccines, but sometimes there are promising breakthroughs against certain pathogens. Containing pathogens is great. I highly recommend it. There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle. Sometimes things can adapt. Growing grapes is possible in Europe because, and only because, they’re grafted onto the roots of North American grapes, which are resistant to the North American grape phylloxera. Sometimes they can’t. America’s forests will never be as they were before chestnut blight, Dutch elm disease, and the emerald ash borer. The trees are gone, others have taken their place, and the world is poorer for it.
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Yeah wild bananas are not good eating. This is always fun to show to those people who say bananas are proof of intelligent design. I mean, they are, it's just humanity's design.
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Wild avocado: Teosinte, the ancestor of maize (or, in American metonymy, “corn”, shortened from “Indian corn”):  These are intentional selections. A more interesting mechanism is Vavilovian mimicry. Rye and oats were once weeds in fields of wheat. Wherever farmers found them, they removed them, plants and seeds. Rye/oats that looked and acted more like wheat were more likely to escape notice and removal. In becoming difficult to distinguish from wheat, they evolved traits like big kernels that made them good crops in their own right.
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Platystemon posted:Wild avocado: That's really interesting, but now you've condemned me to a Wikipedia deep dive.
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Jul 21, 2020 10:31
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What was the unevolved form of Wikipedia in the wild?
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By popular demand posted:What was the unevolved form of Wikipedia in the wild? A card catalog where someone kept sneaking photos of their dick between the cards
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By popular demand posted:What was the unevolved form of Wikipedia in the wild? Bomis quote:Wales edited Wikipedia in 2005 to remove the characterizations of Bomis as providing softcore pornography,[29][38] which attracted media attention;[24][39][40] Wales expressed regret for his actions.[29][38] The Atlantic gave Bomis the nickname "Playboy of the Internet",[41] and the term caught on in other media outlets.[32][42][43] Scholars have described Bomis as a provider of softcore pornography.[30][44]
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What’s bomis?
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Nottherealaborn posted:What’s bomis? About 14 Euro/hour.
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Nottherealaborn posted:What’s bomis? Bomis nuts.
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Dewgy posted:Didn’t we already mostly lose one major banana cultivar, the one that artificial banana flavor is based on? Gros Michel tend to have a bit more of it than Cavendish. But if you say it's based on it you could equally say it's also based on honey bee pheromones. Banana Runts are bee dicks, more or less.
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Don't UK candies use that same ester as pear flavor?
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zedprime posted:It's not that banana flavoring is based on it. Banana flavor is a dead simple ester. You'll probably synth it in college organic lab. It was a lower effort find than nearly any other synthetic flavor. One of my favorite organic chem lab experiments, yes
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I don't even know what an ester is but I'll find a way to contribute to this discussion  I did not like banana candies as a child, and still don't. I have no problems with bananas themselves.
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While I hate to give TMZ the clicks, Man Allegedly Steals 3-Foot, 40-lb Sex Toy from Las Vegas Adult Store needs to be in this thread. Here's the surveillance footage on their YouTube channel. Needless to say, the video and thumbnail in the above article contain images of a 3-foot, 40-lb sex toy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZW4aORgYw
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Christ, what an rear end in a top hat.
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Kirk Johnson, NO! You coulda opened up a Patreon and an ONlyfans and raked in the cash! You don't need to steal! 
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https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1285658457102848001
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Amber Heard Tells British Court She Never Pooped In Johnny Depp's Bed
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Are we absolutely certain that that neither Amber Heard nor Johnny Depp never poster on these forums? They seem like the FYAD 1.0 type.
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He clearly frequented the piracy forums.
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 https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1312466/adolf-hitler-world-war-2-cia-report-psychology-masochist-sex-life-nazi-fetish-spt 
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I hope this will cause a schism among modern Hitler fans between those who dismiss this as fake news and those who embrace it.
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By popular demand posted:Are we absolutely certain that that neither Amber Heard nor Johnny Depp never poster on these forums? Lowtax was Johnny Depp all along
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rodbeard posted:Amber Heard Tells British Court She Never Pooped In Johnny Depp's Bed No wonder the marriage couldn't be saved.
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rodbeard posted:Amber Heard Tells British Court She Never Pooped In Johnny Depp's Bed Test Result: It Was Inconclusive
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Cartoon Man posted:
"The Poo Report Is Real" doesn't quite have the same ring to it...
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Hopefully the courts can get to the bottom of these fecal matters.
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