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[–] azi@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Cougars absolutely can and do eat cats and dogs; their natural prey is primarily deer but they'll absolutely hunt smaller animals if given the opportunity. It's also not unheard of for them to stalk children and even adults.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Whether the Testimonium Flavianumin (Josephus' description of Jesus in Antiquities) was entirely a Christian insert or the section was just edited by Christians is debated, however there's consensus that Josephus' reference to "the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James" in Antiquities is authentic.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

of course it wouldn't dim it in the same way as a dolphin; cows and dolphins are different animals. this is clearly a real photo, you're just sowing confusion and distrust in order to break the beautiful fraternity between cows and dolphins

[–] azi@mander.xyz 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This completely fails to address the actual gaps in scientific animal care legislation, in this case lack of oversight to make sure they actually adhered to the CCAC guidelines and a major lack of transparency. This legislation just sets back science that has good reason to use dogs as model organisms while letting abuse of other animals continue (especially non-government-funded work which has no requirement to follow CCAC rules!)

[–] azi@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

And it's entirely the tech companies making their own bed and then laying in it. In the few jurisdictions where the engineering regulatory colleges won out in protecting their title, there's a slough of highly qualified Professional Software Engineers who've graduated from accredited programs alongside the people who grad from more theory-based compsci programs

[–] azi@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They were effective anti-communists. Same reason after the War the US cuddled up with the essentially fascist regimes of Salazar and Franco.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 24 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Use the cyrillic letter А on your licence plate instead of the latin letter A. All your speeding tickets would be mailed to someone else

[–] azi@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

*a subtype of vector

vector is a type not a kind :P

[–] azi@mander.xyz 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Broke: Whales are fish because they look like other fish

Woke: Whales aren't fish because they're in the class Mammalia, not Pisces

Bespoke: Whales are fish because any monophyletic group that encompasses all the fishes must also include the clade Tetrapoda

Artichoke: Whales aren't fish because fishes are a paraphyletic group that includes the entire clade Vertebrata at the exclusion of the clade Tetrapoda.

Stick and Poke: Whales are fish because they've developed the same bodyplan and are in the same ecological niche as the pelagic fishes.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Osoviakhim was somewhat more ideologically consistent than Paperclip. The scientists weren't invited to the USSR with promises of cushy jobs and immunity from prosecution: they were forced from their homes, loaded onto freight trains, and made to work. It was part of the wider program of the Allies using the forced labour of ethnic Germans as a means of war reparations.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 43 points 1 month ago

Either the image is an accurate facsimile (DNA was wrong and the guy's wearing a men's size shirt (buttons are on his right side)) or the image was mirrored (DNA was correct and the guy's wearing a women's size shirt (buttons are on his left))

[–] azi@mander.xyz 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

there's a myriad of phrases like that

 
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