idk about you but my tshirts are just made of cotton

this made me realize how different learning is via lessons and immersion, i never had that experience when learning english since i did it by watching english media, it was just that one day it stopped being gibberish and started being language.

no, that’s not how cladistics works…

as you can see from the diagram, pterosaurs are not descended from the stem-dinosaurs, thus they cannot be dinosaurs any more than birds could be mammals.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladistics

it’s not really a definition thing as such, “dinosaur” just means anything descended from a specific point on the tree of life.

most dinosaurs can fly, since all living dinosaurs are birds and those very famously tend to fly quite a lot.

well almost, we don’t know what they sounded like but we can make pretty decent educated guesses at what they probably sounded like in general.

For example parasaurolophus very definitely seems to have a resonating structure, like a trombone strapped to their face, so it’d be weird if they didn’t make some sort of trumpeting sounds.

Another big one is that dinosaurs generally didn’t have anything like a voicebox or whatever the thing is that birds use to make their calls, so we can be quite confident that most dinosaurs didn’t make any bird-like noises, and they wouldn’t have been able to do stuff like roar either.

Which leaves us with t.rex probably just having sounded somewhat like an alligator.

looks very soft

i thought you were using outdated connectors as a joke 😂

yeah but like, they most likely weren’t going “unga bunga, gurg want hunt mammoth, gurg make pointy stick, ook ook”

funy pengin

even on a less well-maintained system it’s probably not going to be the kernel having a freakout, the kernel is going to be just fine while something else shits itself (probably graphics drivers on a desktop tbh, my vega 10 loves to vomit onto the screen and pass out)

i read it as tech-tronic which made it ~10% funnier

real wasabi root is a bitch to farm, so if you buy wasabi paste and it’s not expensive, or if someone serves you more than a tiny dollop of it, it’s probably actually horseradish paste with wasabi root extract.

not that it matters, clearly people enjoy the horseradish paste.

so… would the fact that wasabi paste isn’t actually made from wasabi root count?

TL;DR: the entire vinyl record market

worst part for me as a swede is that it ends up being interpreted to mean “neander speaker”, since “thal” becomse “tal” which means speech in swedish…

so not only is there the standard “neanderthals stupid and primitive” association, but also there’s the added layer of implication that they spoke weird!

source: fuckin look at em

you realize like 90% of australians live in 6 cities, right?

this is why i respect web spinning spiders and jumping spiders (despite the name).

web spinners just spin their webs and sit there, they’re in their lane and flourishing.

jumping spiders are smart enough to recognize that we are gods compared to them, and that we probably won’t appreciate them making sudden fast movements.

it’s the legs and speed that do it, normal centipedes are plenty freaky but the fact that the legs are stubbier makes them much more managable, they’re more like seeing a wild rat.