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llewelly

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I tried to write an introduction and it was so empty it collapsed inward on itself

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futurebird, to random
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There is an ant colony that lives in the cracks of the asphalt in 2nd ave. In the center of the street. I don’t know if I should call them absolute legends or idiots. They use the cracks as highways like sidewalks ants. It’s a big colony although I can never get a good look at them without getting hocked at.

Perhaps I am the legendary idiot in this story.

llewelly,
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@futurebird
♬ ant house ♬
♬ in the middle of the street ♬

timhutton, to random
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Do all animal's mouths open horizontally?

llewelly,
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@timhutton @simon @futurebird
I think fusion of both sides of the mandibles is the norm in tetrapods generally, but there are a number of notable exceptions, particularly baleen whales, and snakes, which for somewhat different reasons have a highly stretchy muscle there, which allows the two sides to spread very far apart, and yet be able to pull them back together when needed. Then there's Ornithischians and their predentary bone, but I've run out of room.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Best movement of “The Planets” by Holst?

llewelly,
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@futurebird
I voted Uranus, but thanks to star wars, mars always wins, 'cause that's the one everyone knows and associates with their favorite films.

llewelly,
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@futurebird @noplasticshower
I mean, there are differences, but you need to have some familiarity with both pieces to recognize them. That's not to say the differences are insignificant; Williams' changes better suit the theme of the empire.

futurebird, to random
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What is the best explanation you’ve heard for 1 not being a prime number? For me it’s “because it breaks everything in my programs since the loops won’t terminate” but that’s obtuse. “Because the God of math decrees it so!” is compelling, but shallow.

“it can only be divided by 1 distinct number” is contrived.

1 “feels” prime— it has the fewest factors. (Primeness being about NOT having factors) ruling it out for having too few? eh.

“it’s the zero of multiplication” is better… thoughts?

llewelly,
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@futurebird
if you define prime so that 1 is prime, you get a number system which is equally valid, but so full of anger at having been long snubbed by mathematicians, it plots to overthrow the normal order.

futurebird, to random
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Sam Alito is so much worse than I ever suspected. Watching him speak, reading his writing you encounter a man who clearly thinks he's smarter than everyone.

For various reasons, we do not often encounter smug academically styled conservatives. But, he's the genuine article. He sincerely believes himself a brave iconoclast who will be seen as a hero someday.

His self-flattery could be a weakness. He is very wrong about how history will remember him.

llewelly,
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@futurebird
as far as smug, academically minded conservatives go, Bolton, Buckley, Bork, and Bloom all come to mind. But Bolton is the only one of those still alive.

(and historically, there were a great many smug academically minded conservatives in the life sciences)

llewelly,
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@chemoelectric @futurebird
It was long ago, but I think I borrowed both of those Mortimer Adler books from a friend, but about a week later she had to move away, and she wanted them back before moving away, and I was about 2/3 done with the first and had barely started the 2nd. But on the other hand, if I don't finish a book in less than a week, that's usually a sign I'm not going to finish it ever, unless it's as technical as a university text book.

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Hesperornis regalis" — 2015

Hepserornis regalis, the Late Cretaceous toothy marine bird, takes to the sea.

https://johnconway.art/hesperornis-regalis

llewelly,
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@john the Hesperornis in the lower left looks unhappy with how shallow that water is.

llewelly, to random
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actually, neurotypicals only want to talk about the weather until you start talking about all the myriad ways weather is being altered by fossil-fuel driven global warming.

futurebird, to random
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I was wondering why hand stencils are so common in early human cave art... then I read one of the comments on the video about the art "This is so cool I'm going to do it in my son's room."

Oh.

Ok I get it now.

llewelly,
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@futurebird yeah, they are easy, and they are fun. But even more: The shape of the human hand clearly shows it's made by humans. Lots of other "easy and fun" stencils would, after 10,000 years, would leave plenty of doubt as to whether they were human made, or wouldn't make good newspaper photos.

gay_ornithischians, to random
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friends do you think "animals" in the tetrapod size range that had hydaulic driven limbs would be too heavy to evolve flapping flight of the type seen in birds, bats and pterosaurs?

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
I'm not a biomechanicist, but I don't see any reason the limits for hydraulic driven limbs would be greatly different than those for typical vertebrate muscles.

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians @Aviva_Gary
My memory, which might be incorrect, is that coconut crabs have hydraulic limbs as well?

futurebird, to random
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Pica: Can I licky every bacon and poach egg?
Me: No, that would ruin the human breakfast, but you may have a little crumb of bacon and little crumb of egg.
Pica: donot want
Me: Then go away.
Pica: Can I PLEASE licky every bacon and poach egg? PLEAS

llewelly,
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@futurebird how can it be a poached egg if Pica didn't poach it?

futurebird, to random
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Nothing makes a meal feel fancy like quite like featherlight flatwear. I want forks optimized for spaceflight. Titanium butterknife! The new definition of luxury!

llewelly,
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@futurebird
I just want a spoon that won't bend when I use it on the ice cream I just dredged up from the bottom of the chest freezer.

(I mean, I have that, but it looks very old, and of course it's very thick. But I love it.)

in other news, the bowl I'm eating out of has titanium in the glaze. But not for lightness; it's super heavy. Titanium dioxide (rutile, usually) is a common high fire glaze ingredient. Although maybe not for mass-produced stuff.

ai6yr, to coffee

"Cowboy Coffee" recipe for 60 people (per vintage Betty Crocker)

llewelly,
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@mazz @ai6yr
yeah, thinking of all the coffee drinkers I've known, I can't think of one who would only drink 2/3 of a cup. 60 servings, sure, but only maybe a dozen people, or less.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Which best describes you?

("records" in this context are shellac, vinyl or resin etc. recorded sound discs played using needle)

If you have some records you can play and others you can't choose the third option.

If you have a player but it's broken choose the first option.

You "own" a player if one is in your home and you can use it when you want.

You "own" records if you are one of the people who must be asked if they were sold or thrown away.

llewelly,
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@futurebird
all through my teens and the first half of my 20s, I had only cassette tapes bc I couldn't afford a CD player or CDs. (Or even particularly many tapes.) When I finally had the money for those things, it was just about practical to rip CDs to mp3s and store them on a hard drive, and I didn't have any speakers except those connected to my computer, so that's what I did. I've never owned a record player.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Trump has said FOUR times that he will withhold federal funding from schools that require vaccines. Not just COVID. ALL.

This is most schools. This is hitting me where I work. This will lead to children dead from measles. It's obvious, inevitable.

Someone on here said they just couldn't bear to vote for Biden to keep Trump from office since at least under Trump there were better masking rules.

I hope that person sees this.

Worse is worse.

edit: because I don't know measles from smallpox

llewelly,
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@futurebird
as someone who grew up among right-wing anti-vaxxers, I'm having thoughts about all the times I was told I was "crazy" for arguing that (1) most anti-vaxxers where right-wingers, and (2) they were a serious danger.

futurebird, to random
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Is there a place in the oral arguments or in the missives from the Supreme Court where the more reasonable justices can raise and call attention to the outrageous actions, conflicts of interests of their peers?

Shouldn't having a symbol, in support of an attempt to steal an election at one of their homes make it in to the record?

Could they be more aggressive in this way? If not why not?

They all pretend to be so impartial and its dishonest. It's ugly.

llewelly,
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@futurebird well, when the of the 3 left-leaning judges authors a dissent, you can check that.

futurebird, to random
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From: https://www.instagram.com/matrondesign/?hl=en

Thing is, centipedes are famously fastidious. They wash every single leg multiple times a day and seem rather like a very leggy cat while doing it.

Perhaps it's because they are predators. Predators seem to tend to be into washing up more.

(I know it's a millipede in the cartoon, but that just makes it funnier since the centipede would roll their eyes at the complaining. )

llewelly,
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@futurebird in the case of cats, it's often said they're fastidious because they hunt by stealth, and comparison is made to wolves, which are not nearly so fastidious, and whose hunting depends mainly on endurance and teamwork. Which brings me to wonder: Do centipedes hunt by stealth?

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as hard. This mid sized marine reptile is known from Colombia, South America.

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

This was designed by Me

llewelly,
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@TheDinosaurDave
I hope it's Stenorhynchosaurus, bc that's the only Colombian pliosaur I can think of.

futurebird, to random
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Taking photos of exoplanets is important for two possible outcomes:

We see earth-like planets or life that inspires us to do space travel.

We don't see anything at all like Earth and sober up about this little oasis on the edge of a volcanic crater.

We are like the desert pupfish. That's why that strange little fish is so fascinating. It's a mirror.

A small welcoming pool ... where we might live for a long time... and around us nothing but death should it dry up and vanish.

llewelly,
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@futurebird
40 years ago, there was a belief among space enthusiasts that seeing earth from space would make people realize how fragile civilization is, and how important it is to work together to make it sustainabile.

Since then, billionaires have built space businesses which are clearly having the opposite effect on the rich, and poisoning the public view of space exploration. I fear discovery of a life-supporting earth-like exoplanet will similar results.

futurebird, to random
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The ant “foot” consists of a tarsal claw with two toes and the several segments above that I suspect are simply… well…floppy. Basically, I’ve seen no evidence ants can wiggle their ankles at will, but rather they seem to adjust the floppiness, or tension of the lower leg. The claws, however, show signs of dexterity, ants can control how sticky the soft pad of their foot is, but also seem to be able to grip and release with their claws. (how exactly are the muscles arranged?)

Another view that includes the segments above which I suspect to be “floppy” the ant leg is often covered in hairs.

llewelly,
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@futurebird I am surprised. I thought keeping 3 legs in contact with the surface was the normal insect walk, with the exceptions mostly being insects who had highly modified a pair of legs to do something else (like mantids).

gay_ornithischians, to random
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people who specevo. what got you into specevo?

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about them. Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs reviewed the art in two of them, but the art isn't Dixon's; he did the writing, and they don't say much about it.

https://chasmosaurs.com/2020/01/24/vintage-dinosaur-art-the-big-book-of-dinosaurs/

https://chasmosaurs.com/2021/04/24/podcast-show-notes-episode-5/

18+ gay_ornithischians, to random
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the awkwardness of first contact

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians I like it.
For earth gravity - I would guess it would be ok up to about elephant size, assuming density similar to an average mammal.

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians I don't know. I think there are a few specimens of Palaeoloxodon namadicus which approach or even exceed 20 tons, and some other proboscideans which reached 12 or maybe 15. Maybe that's a guide to what's possible.

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