deranger

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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 9 points 23 hours ago

These round hay bales are actually illegal.

The cows can’t get a square meal.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 23 hours ago

Cow and rabbit eggs aren’t fictional, they’re just really small and don’t have hard shells.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Definitely don’t think about the overpopulation of deer, the spread of CWD, the fact that deer are commonly found in corn fields, the US loves corn, and the plants can take up prions from the soil.

That interspecies barrier seems like it’s the only thing between us and a huge disaster.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wasting-disease/plants-can-take-cwd-causing-prions-soil-lab-what-happens-if-they-are-eaten

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They respond because they have to do things like inject the genetic material into the organism once it latches on to whatever on the cell surface. That doesn’t occur in the host, it occurs in the virus.

It’s been a while since I took virology, but I feel pretty confident that something occurs in the virus due to an external stimulus.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 63 points 2 days ago (16 children)

One of the theories how organisms switched from RNA to DNA is due to viruses. Viruses have a pretty wild range of their genetic diversity. Single strand DNA, double strand DNA, positive sense single strand RNA, negative sense single strand RNA, double strand RNA. We’ve also probably got viruses as a permanent part of our genome from some ancestor species.

I think they’re pretty cool. Also, they do respond to outside stimuli, otherwise they’d be completely inert.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Just learn the math, it’s quite easy. IIRC you just add the reciprocals of the resistors then take the reciprocal of the answer.

1/Req = 1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3 ….

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you were able to answer that question, I think you would solve one of the eternal mysteries of humanity. We seem unable to escape the patterns that we keep repeating millennia after millennia.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Did they put the blocks into place with their economic activity?

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The difference is the pyramids exist

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

almost all of the humans that have ever existed ... exist right now

This is wildly untrue. The recent estimation of how many humans have existed is around 100 billion. Half of the total population of humans ever to exist was before the year 0, with the other half since then.

 
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Whenever I try to Select Text, it only pops up a few millimeters at the bottom of the screen. I can pull it up a few more and copy the whole text and work with that, but this isn’t how it used to function. I can no longer see the text and select snippets from there to copy.

Voyager 2.29.1, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 18.4

 

1975 Dodge Tradesman 300

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Cruisin' for Burgers (sh.itjust.works)
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1977 Ford Cruising Van

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Morning Fungi [OC] (sh.itjust.works)
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[OC] Sunset (sh.itjust.works)
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