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    12 hours ago

    Not a botanist, but their tadpoles swim. Plants without this feature will relocate the sperm themselves.

    e: As a result of learning this, I also learned that molluscs, arthropods, and vertebrates all evolved brains independently, and it’s actually normal for molluscs to have distributed brains rather than it being a neat quirk of a few examples. Arthropod brains are also more or less distributed depending on their specific needs.


  • There was a short while when everyone had computers at home, and we became skilled with them because we grew up with them. But those computers were pretty quickly replaced with tablets and phones, leaving the majority of younger generations with much less computer experience.

    Because of the locked-down nature and simplified UI design of mobile platforms, they weren’t able to learn skills like navigating file systems or the many tools in document and art programs they would have found on PC.

    Rather than being an edutainment tool, mobile devices have offered cheap dopamine hits and predatory monetization. The fact that we know this and do nothing to correct it is incredibly sad.





  • Yeah, that’s what I figured they were like and why I was content to let them be if they didn’t want to sit on me. We just kept having these moments where they clearly wanted to snuggle, but seemed to be afraid I would crumble beneath them and shatter their tiny paws to dust. We’re getting to a point now where I can even adjust my position underneath them, but only sometimes.




  • I was surprised my cats weren’t sitting on my lap, so when they were close to two years old I started holding them captive for very short periods while petting them how they like, and now I can’t keep them off me. It seemed like the only reason they weren’t sitting on humans before is that they didn’t think it was safe.