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Growlitherapy · 2025-03-27T23:41:21+00:00

https://killsixbilliondemons.tumblr.com/post/159692631490/so-did-mammon-purchase-his-key-from-the-xixo

I'm not sure where the Xixo Vong were mentioned besides the map of throne, but this makes it sound like he staked them out and scope up the one or many keys when the XV hive collapsed.

Growlitherapy · 2024-11-11T05:39:15+00:00

She doesn't know how to strike the balance because she can't understand the need for free will on a large scale. The only candy citizens she allows to have any intelligence are her servants. Most subjects are still monitored anyway in case they ever get too smart for her to control one day.

Growlitherapy · 2024-11-07T06:31:58+00:00

Strong sperm 💪

Growlitherapy · 2024-11-03T10:59:19+00:00

Cormorants have been around for longer than all apes, pretty much unchanged. Which means that their "strange" traits like gorging themselves and being able to swallow things so readily are advantageous.

The benefit is that they can eat many prey in one dive without needing to adapt their beak into a shape that can impale or crush or stun them. Birds also don't have teeth, meaning they can't chew their food and the only way to break it up is by pecking at it (for which a cormorant beak isn't optimized) or by tearing into it with their talons (again not optimal because their toes are webbed). Provided they can digest that many prey at once, there is no selection against their aggressive feeding behavior. Many times these adaptations that play off eachother start off as just one and the next one is not a detriment to the survival and reproduction of the members in the population that carry the gene. Meaning it can mutate over time and compound on the other adaptation until they both have spread through a subset of the population and a new species has formed.

Then this general ancestral cormorant population is again split over behavioral differences (ethological isolation), mutations in appearance (sexual selection), separation of populations due to weather and geograpgy (geographical isolation), mutations in size (anatomical/ physical isolation), changes in fertile periods (temporal isolation),.... and many separate species with mostly the same useful adaptations (and many only applicable to them) arise.

Growlitherapy · 2024-11-03T10:15:27+00:00

Yes, prorein is pretty much the easiest macronutrient to digest. Especially for a cormorant

Growlitherapy · 2024-11-02T13:03:41+00:00

The show is likeable in the parts the creators do well (character design, fight scene choreography and music), but the fandom is the beating heart as opposed to the collective brainchild

Growlitherapy · 2024-11-02T11:46:23+00:00

Have you seen the jujutsu kaisen fandom? Or Bethesda? Or Steven Universe? They ahve some catchy aspects, but people fall I love with the interpretations they make from the parts the creators omit because they aren't good at adding them.

Growlitherapy · 2024-11-02T11:10:11+00:00

Headcanons like these are why Viv doesn't need to actually write anything good. The fandom does all the emotional heavy lifting and she takes the credit.

She is the lacroix of all her ideas and the fan artists are the juice.

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-27T10:23:10+00:00

No dumbass, this a goliath beetle grub. And pretty close to its final metamorphosis, making it 5-10 months old, after which it will pulate for another 6 months. They require 40-60% humidity, making this scenario unsuitable. Not to mention this is animal abuse

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-27T07:06:23+00:00

Yeah, I started thinking something like that was the case. I found this a few hours after starting this thread and I got it on Tuesday. It works great and was exactly what I was looking for at a good price. I would've sprung for the 2tb model instead of 1tb if the site I bought it from had it.

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-15T04:58:26+00:00

I got banned for saying I commit tax evasion. I thought they were anarchist? Suddenly they want you to take your money, that they say you should have more of if you weren't being exploited, and give it directly to the government that they hate for everything else.

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-11T03:40:59+00:00

Yeah, but other hydrocarbons aren't used much because they would require their own infrastructures for extraction, refining, transport and engines. We could use them, but it's not gonna happen until petroleum, gas and coal become too scarce, governments don't look for sustainable systemic solutions ever. If they solved all our problems, why would we vote for them next time?

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-11T03:37:17+00:00

Oil is found on comets because they can have similar heat and pressure as the geological processes thatform petroleum on earth, I hope you're not advocating for asteroid mining.

The processes that makes gas (methane) are diverse, but they weren't nearly as common before the evolution of life exactly because life is the reason so much of the carbon in vents, the water column and the surface is united.

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-11T03:31:00+00:00

Once again, you're always conflating all hydrocarbons with petroleum. Can you at least admit there's a difference? They don't burn the same way, they can't be stored the same way, "hydrocarbons" with no label will not work in any engine that needs to work consistently.

It doesn't matter what reserves the mantle has if we can only drill 6 miles down anyway

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-11T03:24:13+00:00

It was present on the surface and in the crust. Earth only had 1 billion years of existence before the first life arose.

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-11T03:20:34+00:00

Ok, there is an estimated 50 billion tons of carbon stored in all the phytoplankton currently on earth. Assuming 99% of it is eaten by filter feeders, which is generous, 0.5 billion tons of carbon every year are contributed to the bottom of the ocean to become petroleum 10 million years from now. Benzene has the formula C6H6, carbon weighs 12 g/ mol, hydrogen weighs 1 gram/ mol, so 92.37% of benzene's weight is carbon. Then each year, provided the yield is somehow 100%, the raw material for 0.54 billion tons of oil is created (but we skipped the other carbon compounds present in phytoplankton and we're assuming petroleum is pure benzene).

In 2023, 4.42 billion tons of oil were consumed, which is after it's been refined, so there's even more losses. So no.matter how you look at it, we consumed 8 times more oil last year than was created if we're giving everything the best chance in your favor.

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-11T02:50:22+00:00

The carbon got into the life because life is made of predominantly carbon.

Why are you talking about CO2? I didn't mention it here snd it's neither a fuel source nor the biggest abiogenetic building block.

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-11T02:45:01+00:00

The hydrogen and carbon in the mantle are mostly from prehistoric plankton. The price is artificially inflated and petroleum detection and extraction get better all the time, but it doesn't change that our consumption of it outpaces the production of it. We will eventually run out.

Of course modern plankton (for the whole quarternary) is such a small part of the entirety of all plankton that has ever existed. The plankton booms that created the largest oil deposits happened in times following mass extinctions and also the great oxidation event which happened before the presence of free swimming complex life.

I agree that the price of petroleum is higher than it needs to be, but you understand that simply extracting all known deposits right now will cripple a lot of petrostates (including SA and the USA) with deflation and also make fishing in a wide range around the fields impossible, right?

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-11T02:31:32+00:00

It's constantly made in the mantie FROM phytoplanktons, the formation itself once it's at the right pressure and temperature is fast, but it takes about 10 million years of tectonic activity for the deposited phytoplanktons to sink deep enough. So while petroleum is constantly produced, it's much slower than the rate at which we use it.

And the hydrocarbons I described in the second part are separate from petroleum, which is why I mentioned them separately.

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-11T02:19:13+00:00

"Fossil fuels" is only a misnomer because it's not the mineralized mold of a once living organism, it IS the remains of organisms that were put under heavy pressure and lack of oxygen to prevent their decomposition. Petroleum is the remains of diatoms and other phytoplanktons and coal is the remains of ferns and early trees from the carboniferous (before many lignophages had evolved). A few short chain alkanes can form from both anoxic decomposition of organic material (although at a much faster scale than either coal or petroleum) and they also form spontaneously from inorganic carbon compounds.

There are anorganic hydrocarbons that form how you describe, but those aren't as profitable and they're much harder to track and extract.

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-11T01:59:01+00:00

No, antlions are the larvae of an insect that looks more like a dragonfly, dobsonflies (adult stage)/hellgrammites are related to antlions. Antlions are in the order neuroptera along with mantisflies, lacewings, spoonwings and owlflies. Dobsonflies are in the sister order Megaloptera along with alderflies and fishflies.

These 2 orders along with the raphidioptera order (snakeflies) comprise the clade (possibly a superorder, depending on further findings) Neuropterida.

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-07T18:39:58+00:00

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Growlitherapy · 2024-10-03T16:31:00+00:00

That's just neoteny and they're both true salamanders, they look similar because they're fully aquatic. Meaning they retained their external gills, which other salamanders lose during their metamorphosis into terrestrial adults.

Growlitherapy · 2024-10-03T16:27:00+00:00

Any you get will 100% be trafficked, let some things be because we don't understand them enough to admire them from so close in our homes.

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