It is in the same family that brought us coffee! Maybe that helps you appreciate it more :)

There are also other very similar looking herbs in the same genus that are really nice. Like Galium odoratum, which is used for its nice smell and flavor, e.g. in syrups or alcoholic beverages.

Lol didn’t even see that! :D

You just have to set up a password manager once and it isn’t that hard :)

Yeah, like monocots don’t have secondary growth so they have to use some tricks to get that large. Like palms first grow to a certain stem size on the ground (or below) and only then grow up. I wonder how lycopods grew that large considering they are not really ferns even… Oh and ferns also can grow to be trees!

In some areas and times, cockchafers were served as food. A 19th-century recipe from France for cockchafer soup reads: “roast one pound of cockchafers without wings and legs in sizzling butter, then cook them in a chicken soup, add some veal liver and serve with chives on a toast”. A German newspaper from Fulda from the 1920s tells of students eating sugar-coated cockchafers. Cockchafer larvae can also be fried or cooked over open flames, although they require some preparation by soaking in vinegar in order to purge them of soil in their digestive tracts.[14] A cockchafer stew is referred to in W. G. Sebald’s novel The Emigrants.

(Wikipedia)

TIL calling beetles by the month they appear in is a mess. In Europe, may beetles are Melolontha, june beetles are Amphimallon (or Mimela), july beetles are Anomala (at least in German). Rhizotrogus is also in the mix, but didn’t get a month assigned.

But then in North America, there are different genera for each month. Phyllophaga in may, Cotinis and Polyphylla in june, none in july…

With one data point as sample size, it could have been a baby, a huge bodybuilder or anything. Same goes for the human cow. None of this is reliable data and we shouldn’t even discuss it here.

This reminds me of an unfinished crochet project of Anomalocaris I got lying around… If anyone is interested, here is the pattern I’m using: https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/1099142450/nur-muster-anomalocaris-burgess-shale

That makes it even worse

Can confirm :'(

Yeah, that was weird to watch. Not sure if the speaker realizes how bad this new tech still looks.

And in the end he said that it is very important to use these AI models “with the full permission of the talent” and that they “had full access and the rights to the training data”. He obviously just considers Harrison Ford in this moment, but does he realize what that would mean regarding the AI models and their training data they use? And was the presented short film also created with full permission of all artists contributing to the training data? Was this just a blatant lie to make it sound like they work responsibly with AI?

Was curious, so I looked it up: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/o7-slang

Yup!!

I think baby-like facial features are just a part of the domestication syndrome. There has been this long-going domestication experiment with silver foxes that could show that when only selected for tameness the foxes still expressed most of the traits found in other domesticated animals, too.

Belyaev was correct that selection on tameness alone leads to the emergence of traits in the domestication syndrome. In less than a decade, some of the domesticated foxes had floppy ears and curly tails (Fig. 2).

Over the course of the experiment, researchers also found the domesticated foxes displayed mottled “mutt-like” fur patterns, and they had more juvenilized facial features (shorter, rounder, more dog-like snouts) and body shapes (chunkier, rather than gracile limbs) (Fig. 3).

Aw sorry, didn’t get the irony in your original statement…

The older, nicer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYbWjJsLymE

The newer, more extreme version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COOxP3_HFcM

It’s shows a wasp and not a bee…

Well, if you look at any animal species, assume variations to occur. There are so many different sexes, genders and sexualities out in the animal kingdom, but our society’s cisheterosexual bias has conditioned us to believe that all animals are straight and cis…

As a reading suggestion you may look into Evolution’s Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden

Sorry, what? I don’t understand what you mean :/

Oh nice, I’ve thought about contributing to osm for a long time but this makes it so much easier to do that!!

I’ve looked into what I can do in my close vicinity and there are many roads that still miss their width. However, the app suggests to install an app (streetmeasure) to measure the width. This app is however based on Google AR services (that don’t work on my degoogled phone. How do you guys deal with that? Do you just ignore those tasks or do you guesstimate the road width by eye?

Oh, and another thing: If you like something to do on your walks, may I suggest also looking into iNaturalist (and the companion app Seek), too. While you are walking around you can find so much stuff out there that you’ve previously overlooked. When I go through any street now I spot bugs and plants everywhere!