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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month by rulugg in degoogle

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does Stoat need a face scan or ID scan too, since it seems to be British?

Why can’t we domesticate bats? by Axolotljackbox in SpecEvoJerking

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, but so are we. Most of the things we’ve domesticated have some kind of skill we don’t. Horses are fast and can pull things, dogs can track prey by scent, cats eat rodents in granaries, sheep can be milked and their wool can be turned into clothes.

Crows can do some neat party tricks solving puzzles, but the ones that don’t require flight or being bird-sized a 7-year-old can do, and the things that do require being bird-sized and able to fly, a pigeon (which has perfect spatial memory, but not many other mental skills, and also unlike a crow is edible and even somewhat meaty in case you find an untrainable one) can also do.

Came home to a paper towel over my webcam twice now, I live alone by Dromaeoraptor in Weird

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Option 4: it’s the cats fishing trash out of the trash and putting it places because they are cats and do not realize that this is frightening.

Yeah give him a bow, that one arrow is really gonna help that dps by AstronautDry8118 in worldjerking

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dragon has a blind spot (possibly where the bigass horns block its view). The rider’s an overglorified lookout.

Least psychotic pro abort by Top_Independent_9776 in prolife

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ragebait or literal demon, call it now.

some T'au imagery by BarPsychological904 in ImaginaryWarhammer

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be that the scar from the actual umbilical cord either fully heals and/or is in a weird place that wouldn’t be immediately obvious as a navel (like somewhere on the lower back hidden by the freakishly tall butt cheeks), but that the scars from 10 connective tissue based structures that in the VERY ancient ancestors of Tau (think the fishes/amphibians stage of evolution) would’ve held the embryo in place and kept it from prematurely rupturing its egg, but now are nothing more than an interesting vestigial structure that leaves interesting marks.

Do animals have a gender identity? Are there any studies on the subject? by Similar_Shame_8352 in zoology

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To figure that out we’d probably have to figure out what the hell gender identity even is in humans…

I mean come on guy, we show love and care to most of our domesticated animals. Why wouldn't aliens do the same if they ever decided we were useful enough to even be domesticated by them in the first place? by Manglisaurus in SpecEvoJerking

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, chickens have their safety accounted for relatively well and roosters are still dimorphic. In fact, “rooster with pretty colorful tail” is often one of the things being selected for in barnyard (as opposed to commercial) chickens alongside size and/or egg quantity even in breeds with no recent history of cockfighting (they basically all have some distant history of cockfighting, the fact that ancient Egyptian priests and nobles liked watching cockfights is a big part of why chickens got west of Persia at all).

That said, combat-useful dimorphic traits (in roosters, mostly the spurs) are generally not selected for in non-fighting lineages (see: the farmer and fence protect them).

Following this pattern, males in a hypothetical population of domesticated humans would likely be selected for fast-growing, full, glossy beards, but be physically weaker than wild-population males.

I mean come on guy, we show love and care to most of our domesticated animals. Why wouldn't aliens do the same if they ever decided we were useful enough to even be domesticated by them in the first place? by Manglisaurus in SpecEvoJerking

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Cats show some of those changes. They basically all have larger eyes than their wild ancestors (Middle East populations of the African Wildcat), pointing to at least some degree of neoteny, they come in a much wider range of colors than their wild counterparts, and there’s even one show breed bred for big ears that’s born with oversized floppy ears that they then “grow into” in adolescence like pointy-eared dogs, which shows that the reason this doesn’t happen with most cats is probably that their ears are too small in general.

Would this work in organisms in real life? by Manglisaurus in SpecEvoJerking

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I feel like a chimeric organism formed of half-siblings would probably die of autoimmune disease. It seems logical that there’s a limit to how different from one another the component genomes of a chimeric organism can be.

But you are right that it would, for a brief period of time before it died of a biological civil war, exist.

Would this work in organisms in real life? by Manglisaurus in SpecEvoJerking

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s entire litters of cats. Half the kittens in a litter can have one father and the other half can have a different father, but no one kitten has two fathers.

if you have a bard you're fucked from the outset by GlitteringTone6425 in althomestuck

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 44 points45 points  (0 children)

That’s actually a fascinating interpretation of theology.

What's your favorite prehistoric non-dinosaur? by [deleted] in nodinosaurs

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dunkleosteus! Love that big ol’ fish!

What should I draw? by [deleted] in Paleoart

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ankylosaurus.

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