fiber is so strange because it’s function is basically just to pass through you, and yet it’s so vital for the digestive system to function properly
everyone keeps saying “oh dietary supplements are just pissing away money” but fibre supplements are the one supplement most people would benefit hugely from taking, just get some psyllium husk or whatever and enter toilet nirvana
Hydrol sounds like bottled water you’d buy at the pharmacy
i’m sure there’s at least one ant-mimicking spider that has turned their front legs into extra quasi-pedipalps to blend in better, getting rid of limbs is super easy in evolution (that’s where antennae and the existing pedipalps come from, and spinnerets too i presume)
so wait are we just walking terrestrial lobsters? and… gorillas are primate crabs maybe?
fun fact: aphids are born pregnant (or at least they can be)
squeezes your buttcheek yeah they’re human, carry on
imagine if a species of lemur evolved to broadly look like us, but still with lemur faces and stuff
that’s basically what’s happening for ants, terrifying
i think it’s instinctive to go “OH FUCK” when something of sufficient size skitters about, but not instinctive to specifically hate spiders
and it doesn’t matter what the skittery thing is, if a mouse scurries across my floor i’m gonna get spooked too, and i think mice are cute!
“ohoho no! these aren’t legs, they’re pedipalps! mmm, pedipalps to help me eat!”
cocks gun Whatever the answer is, i’m about to add several more
turns out half the people on lemmy are kangaroos
recycling!
tbf modern commercial chickens are basically spherical, the poor bastards
who do you think made the moon?
you don’t need any funding beyond standard lab equipment to do this, from what i know it’d be a pretty standard setup
it’s just strange i’ve not heard about it, like someone must have done it and i should have learnt about it via cultural osmosis
unironically it’s pretty strange that i’ve never even heard of people trying to rectify this, surely someone has tried plonking some choloplasts in a skin cell culture and seeing how it goes?
the cell is stored in the walls
i don’t even remember learning about the mitochondrion in school lmao
the mitochondria is the cell of the cell
i’ve been chugging DNA juice for 10 years and i’m just about to evolve