I’m not really big on nuts in chocolate brownies. It’s a texture thing. I don’t like the soft but hard thing.

However I make browned butter and bourbon blondies with toasted pecans and they add a lot of flavor.

Yeah I disagree with every single one of these. Contrast in food is good. Varied textures are good. Sweet and sour is good. Congrats, I think you have an actually unpopular opinion.

I’m fine with competitive sheep herding but I’m definitely not dipping into Ranked.

Yeah I just think it’s kind of neat how the names of English pokemon are formed in a similar way to how they are in Japanese.

I think these are the same root? Pika pika is used to mean clean but it’s onomatopoeia for sparkling. That double word onomatopoeia construction in japanese doesn’t really have a direct analogue in English I don’t think.

Usually directly feeding animals is looked down upon because decreasing their fear of humans tends to be a negative for their survival, and it might impact their ability to forage for their own food. With birds specifically, though, putting up feeders is more mixed. Migration takes an enormous amount of energy and and human sprawl has removed a lot of natural food sources. And especially in wintertime, food can be quite scarce for birds. But at the same time bird feeders can actually be big spreaders of disease and I know that there was guidance that people should take down feeders at the height of bird flu.

Now when it comes to mallards, they’re honestly a species that is incredibly urbanized already, so I don’t think directly feeding them is doing a great deal of harm.

Pika is pronounced “pie-kuh” generally. Pikachu comes from pika pika (japanese onomatopoeia for “sparking/sparkling” usually with the connotation of clean) + chuu (sound a mouse makes/squeak).

Same as the first picture but fatter.

Yeah I agree, way too little detail in this article.

Yeah if there’s one thing the system loves, it’s leaving ex-cons destitute and likely to reoffend because they can’t function on the outside.

Doesn’t take a lot of observation to see that small rodents are in fear of just about every encounter, largely because that’s what keeps them alive.

and let the birds, mice, etc… live without fear.

LOL, that’s not really how mice and small birds work.

Was he eating the cheezits or the box though?

Yes

I think that’s just a potluck.

Classic.

Yeah probably note that this happened in 2022 and he’s getting his first hearing now.

LOL. I mainly got the idea of using genetic modification to increase diversity of a small population from the book Seveneves.

It seems very plausible that if you can make a generation ship, you could make something like CRISPR to artificially increase genetic diversity/eliminate potential birth defects. Or perhaps just store genetic material for more people than the actual colonists on the ship. You’d probably want to hedge your bets in case there’s a low survival rate. There’s a lot that could go wrong. Ecosystem failure, negative effects of radiation, or just good old fashioned murder.

Nest parasitism is not unique to cuckoos and you can’t really put a value judgement on evolution. Brown-headed cowbirds are the most common nest parasites in North America. There’s lots of species where the parents kill their own children if they either think they aren’t strong enough to survive or if the food supply is too insecure to care for them. It’s just nature.