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I spent hours every day either taking pictures of organisms or identifying them online, just for the sake of it and without financial reimbursement. People who say you need a profit motive to do work are just passionless and detached from the world...

Oof, I totally get the frustration of this person. I hate questionnaires because they often have logical fallacies or edge cases that they've missed. If it is a questionnaire about a systemic issue, I feel that it lacks complexity to see these edge cases. But if it is about a personal issue, it's even worse because then my edge case isn't even considered in the questionnaire.

I feel like this makes everything more confusing. You cannot really follow the hair pins through time because the person takes them out of their hair at one time and the alignment isn't in the hair. And step 4 confuses what it says (the sister chromatides almost divided) with what it actually shows (the cells almost divided).

Oh, you're thinking of wasps like yellowjackets. "Fig wasp" uses the taxonomic term for wasp. There are hundreds of thousands of parasitic wasp species out there that most people aren't familiar with. Fig wasps are gall wasps and are really tiny! Like so small you can hardly see them by the naked eye. It is fascinating how so small beings can fly distances of many kilometers when they are only a millimeter in size.

Apart from the cultivar part, I don't think that's true. Apparently even Aristotle has spoken about fig wasps (without really understanding what they are or do of course). So maybe there are some cultivars that are self a pollinating now, but it seems like all non-cultivated fig trees are dependent on this kind of pollination. And btw, there aren't a "few" wild species, there are over 850 of them!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_coevolution_in_Ficus?wprov=sfla1

Yeah sure I'll eat figs. You don't eat the fig wasps as they have been eaten by the fig already. If I knew there was a fig wasp still inside, I wouldn't eat it though.

Yes exactly. They are both dependent on each other in that way.

And to add on to that, figs are super important food trees in the tropics, because they are the only trees that produce fruits all year around. (Because they have to, otherwise the fig wasp population couldn't sustain itself.) So many animal species are also dependent on the steady food source of fig trees (btw most look very different from the common fig tree, Ficus carica).

Oof, this whole email exchange reads super misogynistic, but this one here in particular! Poor Faith :(

I think what that means is that both AI and language learners often use more formal language. If you are learning a new language you usually start by visiting classes or other formal and structured resources. But native speakers don't actually use that idealized form of language very much. I guess that the training set of AI was mostly texts written in more formal language and/or that there isn't a strong enough consistent bias for most informal language.

Especially because most of the corn eaten in the rest of the Americas isn't sweet at all. It's more equivalent of rice, pasta, potatoes, etc...

Oooh, nice!!

Cool! And it mentions "Inside Nature’s Giants"!!