oyfrog

joined 2 years ago
[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Following this metaphor, I see it as: US Left: car's in neutral on a steep incline, foot is off the brake and they aren't sure if they're moving backwards or everyone outside is moving forward. Regardless they think they're doing a great job.

Center: same as above but they're complaining that everyone outside is going too fast that they may have even gone past their destination.

Right: same car, same place, but the car's in reverse and the foot is on full throttle. The center is still complaining about the speed but they're enjoying the view. The US Left is now fully aware of the backwards movement but it doesn't want to take the seatbelt off for the sake of self preservation at the cost of everyone else outside. The rest of the world is either steering clear or has been reversed in to like in one of rear-end insurance scams.

Driver changes every 4 years.

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Don't forget to lick the commemorative beacon snow as it flutters down

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Can't tell from the censor—does it say IDF or US police officer when dealing black children?

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

In terms of large, North American fast food chains, I like A&W, Carl's Jr/Hardy's, and Jack in the Box. In terms of smaller, regional chains, I think In-N-Out is leaps and bounds the best (though What-A-Burger is also really good). Outside of North America, I'm a pretty big fan of Mos Burger from Japan. JollyBee from the Philippines is also pretty great, but mostly because they serve spaghetti and I find that amusing.

I think Shake Shack is overrated but worth trying. FiveGuys is meh.

I also firmly believe that smaller burger chains like In-N-Out, Shake Shack, and What-A-Burger are probably more or less equal in terms of quality and what determines which you think is best is where you grew up.

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I, for one, congratulate the senator from Kentucky on ascending from "Mitch McConnell Turtle Jowel" to "Mitch McConnell Meat Muppet". Truly, we've come leaps and bounds from the days of yore and consumption, to the tomorrow of "human centipede" model of economics and explosive diarrhea.

What time to be alive.

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Depends on the question. In general, I ask my partner and she often doesn't know, so we quickly browse both reddit and quora for similar questions, laugh at the generally insane/inane responses that users often give, forget what we were doing and move on to something else.

Otherwise, I go for stack exchange and hope for the best.

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jez.b.22690

See above for a possible explanation for the evolution of female orgasms. Tl;dr: in humans, it may be a trait derived originally from induced ovulation in more evolutionarily distant ancestors and changed to become what it is in humans over evolutionary time.

In a general evolutionary biology sense, "why" questions are a lot harder to answer than "how" questions. Many answers to "why" that are often given as "that makes sense" are often untested "just so" explanations.

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh dang I didn't know about the twitch replacement. I'll have to check it out!

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I played it on PlayStation as a kid. I really sucked at it, but I really enjoyed it.

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It might, but exceedingly rarely. Albinism and melanism occurs in many taxa including species in the genus Panthera (which include lions and tigers). These are rare traits in general because they are selected against for one reason or another and don't proliferate in the wild.

Another possibility is that these phenotypes are linked to genes that have other downstream developmental effects that lead to non-viable fetuses.

Another fun one (possibly) is that some of these coat traits are controlled partially by the environment/the animal's spatial relationship with the environment. Siamese cats have the characteristic darker coat colors on their extremities (ears, paws, tails, snout, this is called acromelanism) because the melanism is controlled by lower temperature. If an animal never experiences a low temperature, that phenotype might never be expressed.

These are all possibilities. I'm a biologist but I don't study felids (cats and big cats).

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I block them as they come up. Individual users seem to be good about posting it to specific communities, so I typically just block the community, but I'm pretty sure there are some users that I've blocked entirely because they (as far as I can tell) only post furry content. I haven't seen any furry content on my lemmy feed for at least a year now, I think.

Part of it is also the instance where you registered your account. I think lemmy.world not only has more furry communities, but is also federated with more instances that have furry content. I'm not an expert on how federation works though, so someone with better understanding might step and correct me. Also, I don't think there's an algorithm on lemmy...but I might be wrong about that too.

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Selfishly, as a biologist, I would like to see:

  • Reconciliation of rates of evolution that scales from microevolution to macroevolution
  • Accurate/reasonable estimation of lineage death rates for macroevolutionary diversification analysis
  • (extension of previous) Reasonably estimate fossilization probability for (more) accurate clade age estimates
  • Moving beyond phylogenetic trees (phylogenetic networks are a step in the right direction I think)

As a citizen of Earth, I would like to see:

  • Actual plastic recycling that dramatically reduces the need for virgin petro-chemicals
  • A 3D printer beyond plastics (I think this kind of a thing, but I would like it to scale for consumers and industry)
  • A less massive battery that can be used for commercial flight
  • Better earthquake detection

As a person who enjoys knee-deep sci-fi, I would like to see:

  • FTL travel
  • Futurama style heads-in-a-jar
  • A Dyson sphere or swarm
  • A hyperloop

As a (frustrated) scientist I would like to see:

  • Society move beyond "societal utility" of scientific studies/discovery and embrace "science for the sake of science"
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