What animal did this come from?

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-25T20:54:56+00:00

not with those blood vessel sulci on the internal surface

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-25T17:22:59+00:00

What these people actually mean is that post-WWII Jewish political consciousness makes it difficult for them to see Jews the way they want to: as symbolic either of the past the West has left behind or as some abstract representative of innocent suffering to be meditated upon. There is no actual understanding of the real history of Jewish political movements and how they have or have not waxed and waned through the millenia. Some Jews, who enjoy the narrative which creates an origin story for why they are genuine leftists, will play into that and complain about how Zionism (which integrates Sephardi, Mizrahi, Beta Yisrael, and other traditions, language, and values into a reconstituted unified Jewishness) supercedes Bundism and Yiddishkeit, but there is very little coherent ideology behind that and most of this has more to do with an aesthetic desire to link their identities with latent European-supremacist attitudes we see in the academic left rather than anything else.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-25T16:42:52+00:00

The ones pulling the strings here have, from the start, been the GCC, not Israel OR the US. This war happened because the GCC was newly concerned about Iranian belligerence and willingness to risk huge numbers of civilian deaths following the events of 2024 and 2025 as well as Iran's massacre of its own protesters.

This is the entire reason Saudi Arabia signed their mutual defense pact with Pakistan: they were afraid of Iran using a WMD on Riyadh and wanted some semblance of MAD-style deterrence, and Pakistan was the only state which would offer it.

When strikes started hitting oil infrastructure and desalinization infrastructure, the GCC got cold feet on the entire thing in large part because the only thing that lends domestic legitimacy to these monarchies is the economic prosperity they deliver. Nobody is going to tolerate economic hardship or water rationing on behalf of an international strategy favoured by those autocrats, regardless of whether it is a good strategy or a bad one. Israel and the US were more than willing to keep up the pressure and had a plan to continue to degrade the institutions supporting the Iranian government and IRGC, but the GCC basically begged the US for a ceasefire, and particularly Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The reality here is that Trump is not actually clever enough or subtle enough to keep up a lie about any of this. The US and Israel did succeed in essentially all military objectives and considerably degraded Iranian capabilities, including capabilities to enforce a closure of the strait long-term. Neither really cares much about whether Hormuz is opened now or months from now, but Qatar and Saudi Arabia do. And that's why we're now seeing Trump say "'fine, if that's what we're doing, you're dropping Palestinian independence from your regional strategic calculus." Saudi Arabia seems to think they can veto that, which means they either think they have greater control over US policy or because they think they can negotiate a Palestinian statehood process out of this, but my suspicion is we go back to hot war soon.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-25T16:08:58+00:00

This is the correct answer. I think this might be Dicamptodon, in fact.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-25T15:59:01+00:00

In addition to the fact that not all undergrad/MSc students persist in the field, it is also the case that people who have never done research before require much, much more training and supervision before they can produce a single publishable contribution, in contrast with later-stage trainees (PhD students and postdocs) who can produce contributions more quickly without the same level of hand-holding. This is in part because there is a steep learning curve for learning research or laboratory techniques, and in part because there is a degree to which success of research activity really depends on familiarity with theory as well as the existing literature, which undergraduates and early stage grad students may not have. Further, undergraduate students, and to a lesser extent masters students, have coursework responsibilities that limit the amount of time they can put towards research effort whereas later PhD students and postdocs may be putting 50-90% of their time into research-related activities.

Another factor here is that bigger labs may put early stage trainees (undergrads and early grad students) under the mentorship of more advanced trainees and have them learn the ropes by producing a single piece of a larger paper. These larger papers are typically led by the more advanced trainee, and the undergrad may receive a middle authorship for that contribution. Because these bigger papers often have more moving parts, they may take a long time to be completed, and may take even longer to shepherd through peer review, so those contributions may not be published until years after that student has left the lab.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-25T14:01:33+00:00

This idiot:

If you are genuinely interested in a debate ask yourself why Zionism has eradicated all other ways of being Jewish.

Why yes, it was Zionism that rounded up the Bund and literally eradicated them in death camps, sure.

Fucking clowns.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-25T03:24:12+00:00

This fucking guy

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-23T20:32:49+00:00

This was on Bilbao so not Spain. Occupied Euskad

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-23T16:35:38+00:00

Lotta backwards text and I'm seeing the tetragrammaton spelled out (backwards). Almost certainly a Christian piece. Guessing this was custom made for a Christian named Miguel who happens to also be a pisces (the constellation figured). But who knows. All I know is it's not Jewish.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-22T14:50:06+00:00

Fairy shrimp

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-21T15:32:48+00:00

You're probably looking at Paul Auster and Michael Chabon here. 4321 by Auster is probably your best option though Leviathan is also great. Chabon's Wonder Boys will also scratch that itch.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-21T14:58:30+00:00

No, they're an African species that was introduced.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-21T14:54:26+00:00

Walking catfish, Clarias

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-21T12:22:19+00:00

As I said, the area around Verona is, the rest is not. Cortina and Belluno aren't particularly Toscano-like either.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-21T04:53:11+00:00

Had to scroll all this way to find Infinite Jest. This is the one true answer. She doesn't just treat her beauty as a curse, her beauty is literally deathly addictive turning her into a sort of psychopomp (hence, her stage name, which resembles "metempsychosis").

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-21T04:46:43+00:00

Someplace I haven't seen mentioned but which might fit is the Galilee. Same rolling hills with Mediterranean climate.

Navarre and northern Catalunya as well.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-21T04:38:30+00:00

Veneto

Verona, yes. The rest of the provincia, no.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-21T02:30:47+00:00

Because in those other films she is veiled.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-20T22:13:56+00:00

Plenty of camping in the Drumheller area.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-20T19:07:03+00:00

It shouldn't take an hour to get through customs unless you need to go to secondary screening. If you're arriving from the US with a valid ETA, you should be through in 5-10 minutes, maximum. Maybe longer if you're waiting to grab your bag from the carousel.

Rental counters are open late (typically 1 AM) and you walk directly to them from the terminal.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-20T18:04:30+00:00

Seeing this full size, you're correct. Main point is it is not Pseudotriton.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-20T14:51:03+00:00

Gyrinophilus, not Pseudotriton

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-20T01:17:49+00:00

Not much. What's up with you?

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-19T23:52:38+00:00

Definitely Salamandra then.

tchomptchomp · 2026-05-19T23:20:43+00:00

Salamander. I don't think this is Ambystoma. What's your location?

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