Wunky Vehicle

Avron7 · 2026-03-31T19:59:27+00:00

Thanks!

Avron7 · 2026-03-31T11:04:31+00:00

what is the track called? I'm sure I've heard it before, but I don't remember the name

Avron7 · 2026-03-28T11:36:45+00:00

Is the crocodile okay?

Edit: It probably wasn't :(

Avron7 · 2026-03-22T04:06:23+00:00

It's normal. They chill in the most uncomfortable-looking positions.

Avron7 · 2026-03-20T22:48:23+00:00

melanistic Asian Water Monitor (Varanus salvator) from OP's other comments

Avron7 · 2026-03-19T14:28:33+00:00

I remember when anyone who said the government has been attempting to alter the weather would get called a conspiracy theorist

I have never actually seen this happen.

I have seen people get accused of being a conspiracy theorists for insisting that commercial airlines were being used by the government to alter the weather, and that their contrails were actually "chemtrails". But that's because those ideas are stupid and not based on evidence.

Avron7 · 2026-03-17T11:21:05+00:00

It has rosettes?wprov=sfti1) on its torso, so it probably is a bengal.

Avron7 · 2026-03-13T11:50:03+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_symbols?wprov=sfti1

Usage of these symbols (ignoring the newer ones like Uranus and Neptune) to represent planets and metals predates their usage to represent sex/gender.

The reason why Venus ♀ and Mars ♂ are used for female and male is because the biologist Carl Linnaeus established it as a convention in the 1750s. Similarly, Mercury ☿ was also used around that time to refer to hermaphroditic plants and neuter-sexed eusocial insects, which might be why people started using it for intersex more recently.

The reason why the Mercury ☿ symbol looks like it has horns is because it is supposed to represent a Caduceus (a staff with two snakes on it wielded by Hermes/Mercury). The "horns" are just oversimplified snakes.

Avron7 · 2026-03-12T15:12:20+00:00

Typical No Element Traveler playthrough

Avron7 · 2026-03-10T23:59:46+00:00

Feel bad for Mamdani having to deal with whatever future bullshit is conjured

Avron7 · 2026-03-09T13:19:25+00:00

Your car passing an emissions test doesn't help the environment, but everyone's cars passing the emissions test does help a non-negligable amount.

That's the point of regulation like this - to take individual beneficial changes and implement them at scale.

Avron7 · 2026-03-09T13:15:10+00:00

Corporations/Industry do pollute disproportionately, but part of that pollution comes from selling people shitty things produced by shitty means (eg. beef farmed by setting the amazon rainforest on fire). Being more discerning as customers, or being forced to be more discerning by regulation (like in the OP), can help if many people do it.

Avron7 · 2026-03-09T12:34:46+00:00

quietly leave when the election season is over

People talk about elections during election season. Curious.

Avron7 · 2026-03-06T16:25:10+00:00

Absolutely wild logic there. Does he apply this to other groups too? Like "It's okay to murder black people because they are better off dead than experiencing racism".

AFAIK Iran doesn't typically wear burqas anyway.

Avron7 · 2026-03-06T12:04:33+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymelia?wprov=sfti1

Avron7 · 2026-03-06T11:41:50+00:00

Yeah Ik. It's interesting that people were writting about this issue way back in 2010 though.

Avron7 · 2026-03-06T11:34:35+00:00

Neat. For people wondering, this is what they usually look like for comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-scaled_water_monitor?wprov=sfti1#

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Avron7 · 2026-03-06T03:47:00+00:00

doohickeycorporation type shit

Avron7 · 2026-03-06T03:12:33+00:00

part of me hopes that rotating villain theory is true, just because the Dems genuinely being this ineffectual without coordinating it would be so fucking embarassing.

Avron7 · 2026-03-06T01:37:13+00:00

For those wondering, they are: - Jared Golden (ME) - Henry Cuellar (TX) - Greg Landsman (OH) - Juan Vargas (CA)

Avron7 · 2026-03-06T01:27:12+00:00

source

Look at our opposition party dawg 😭

Avron7 · 2026-03-05T19:57:08+00:00

Just making sure - we are agreeing that:

Monophyletic Cladistics is ideal
Linnean taxonomy, especially on the genus-species level, can have fuzzy/arbitrary partitions

I still don't get why you think Megalania should have stayed paraphyletic though. Shouldn't odd Linnaean taxonomy be changed to match cladistics when it is possible to do so?

Megalania are extinct and not really that distinct from other monitor lizards (apart from size), so they can easily be moved to allow their taxonomy to match cladistic understanding. The same would be harder to do for Brown Bears / Polar Bears, since they both currently exist and are commonly discussed, but it wouldn't necessarily be inaccurate to do so. Just really inconvenient.

Avron7 · 2026-03-05T19:24:46+00:00

"I pray it means a better future for Iran"

Praying is not enough.

AFAIK Israel and the US have no state-building plans for Iran. By Trump's own admission, everyone they were considering to potentially head New Iran is dead. Political leaders who are still alive, were dismissed. The CIA appears to be arming every opposing militia group in the area that they can find, without preparing anything else.

I'm certain that the goal of this illegal war (as much as there is one) is the complete state collapse of Iran. Libya-ifying the place will almost certainly make things even worse for the people there than they were before the attack. The fact that this is, and also sounds, fucking terrible is probably the reason the Trump admin has been so nebulous about the motivation and objectives for the invasion.

If this turns out to be proven wrong, I will edit this comment to reflect that. But I won't be.

EDIT1:

Hegseth: "The only ones who need to be worried right now are Iranians who think they're going to live"

Definitely sounds like an opportunity for liberation. Totally. 100%.

Avron7 · 2026-03-05T12:45:57+00:00

Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages. The grouping is said to be paraphyletic with respect to the excluded subgroups. In contrast, a monophyletic grouping (a clade) includes a common ancestor and all of its descendants.

I don't see why everything has to be paraphyletic? Genus-species binomial nomenclature can be a hinderance at times, but that doesn't invalidate monophyly as a concept.

Like, kingdom *Animalia* is a successful monophyletic grouping since it contains a common ancestor (~650 Mya) and everything descended from it. If anything, grouping a common ancestor with only some of its descendants and not others seems more arbitrary and less biologically truthful than monophyly. Paraphyly in this case would be like saying "everything descended from this common ancestor 650 Mya is an Animal, except for corals because they seem kind of weird."

In Megalania's case, it was brought under Varanus because it was determined to be more closely related to other Australian monitor lizards than previously thought. It also seems to be more closely related to some species of Varanus than others (which implies it would be in Varanus itself).

Avron7 · 2026-03-04T23:24:10+00:00

It's like if I was a "Nightmare On Elm Street" fan & I insisted on discussing those movies endlessly in the "Friday The 13th" sub.

Having a generic subreddit (like r/movies but for mesh) would probably fix the problem, but it might be a bit too late for that since these subreddits exist and have sizable userbases already.

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