zcrow posted:

cock hero flux posted:

i'm not saying that we should kill all the pandas and koalas, but I am saying that there are not many species out there that are as committed to becoming extinct and maybe it's for the best if we just let it happen instead of making a herculean effort to sustain the existence of a species that has forgotten how to both eat and gently caress

Platystemon posted:

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.

CharlestheHammer posted:

To be fair fact checking in the west has also become a joke where it’s now functionally no different than an opinion piece

Phlegmish posted:

Ah sounds like they're having an easier time of it than Western Australia this year

e: the latter probably have hyper-aggressive birds (that are on fire) flying around while dropping huge venomous spiders on them

Assistant Manager Devil posted:

Jyzantine, c'mon

Dewgy posted:

Yeah, a potatoe.

trapped mouse posted:

Pope Hilarius II posted:

Didn't Neanderthals have red hair, by the way?

The MSJ posted:

Is it people? Does the butter contain people now? Wait, hard truth? Oh my god, the butter is semen?!

Captain Hygiene posted:

An exotic-looking orange bird turned out to be a seagull covered in curry

CharlestheHammer posted:

Clockwork Orange didn’t make up words, they just used local slang.

CharlestheHammer posted:

So real slang yes

CharlestheHammer posted:

Means he did not make it up.

CharlestheHammer posted:

The original point was they were words he made up. Which they weren’t they were all real slang people used.

CharlestheHammer posted:

Fair enough. But there were plenty of real words so just because they sounded weird doesn’t make them made up

Captain DIEgiene posted:

Actually that's maybe the US healthcare system's one success

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

In case anyone missed the relevant part, Bezos isn't paying for the dismantle. That's on the taxpayers. For the benefit of "job creation" aka Benzos high sees fleet cruiser.

quote:

“It’s the only route to the sea,” a spokesperson for the mayor of Rotterdam told AFP, adding that the Amazon owner would foot the bill for the operation.

gleebster posted:

Known to whom? I think a quick series of people-in-the-street interviews would explode any notion that this is a widely-known number.

Cartoon Man posted:

Didn’t Elon hire a CEO and step away?

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

His campaign manager is Dennis Kucinich? There’s a guy I haven’t heard of in a long time.

Platystemon posted:

https://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/1650nesilim.asp

199

quote:

199. If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest. If an ox spring upon a man for intercourse, the ox shall die but the man shall not die. One sheep shall be fetched as a substitute for the man, and they shall kill it. If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment. If any man have intercourse with a foreign woman and pick up this one, now that one, there is no punishment.

Antigravitas posted:

You are required to keep your guns in a gun safe in Germany and I think that's a very sensible requirement.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/thephillyvoice/status/664554773950132224

Freemason Rush Week posted:

For those who are curious like I was, both "doubt avoidance" and "disliking bias" are cognitive biases made up by some rich prick who knows absolutely nothing about psychology.

zedprime posted:

Are you sure you're not avoiding doubt by making an ill decision to dislike bias?

Dachshundofdoom posted:

Twerk will set you free

Baron von Eevl posted:

They sold their weapons business nearly 30 years ago.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Anne Hathamouth eat the leggs!

rodbeard posted:

You're telling me the substantiation of Christ is trans?

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/ohnohedidnt24/status/1778639705958986006

FreudianSlippers posted:

In Mormonism God lives in outer space near the star and/planet Kolob.

In death all good Mormon men will become Gods of their own planets because even God was once a mortal on some far off planet but ascended to Godhood to create our world.


Which is to say that in Mormonism God is an alien and the goal of all Mormons is to become Gods on alien worlds.

Paper Tiger posted:

Zebras aren't spotted, they're striped!

The General posted:

I don't see the difference between 100 tabs, and 1000 bookmarks. You're still wading through a sea of poo poo looking for whatever it is you're looking for.