Oooh, nice!!

Cool! And it mentions “Inside Nature’s Giants”!!

Most of Europe I’d say…

I feel like behaving like this is just kicking down. People doing scam calls are also just people and usually in a financially worse situation than who they are trying to call. Not even that, it is especially often people from the global south that we comparatively rich people from the global north exploit and gain our wealth from. And instead of trying to look at the big picture and seeing who the biggest scammer is (the capitalist system itself), most people just bully the ones that are worse off than them… I get that it feels way much more personal and tragic when a grandma loses all her savings to a small group of scammers. But the damages and losses done by large corporations (that also created the desperate circumstances and the motivation of the scammers in the first place) outweigh these scams billions of times. So please show some decency and treat them like normal people.

That’s even further off from comparing apples and oranges, you’re comparing monocots and dicots!

Ah yes, now I get it! Thanks :)

I feel like something similar has been going on a few years ago as well (or maybe it’s an old post?)

It is a valid term used by trans people to describe their own feelings (see the gender dysphoria bible for example). The other person must have gotten something mixed up…

Wow, I loved this! Thanks for sharing <3

Just use its Latin name, Solidago. How am I supposed to know what it is called in English when each other language also has its own name.

And yes, in Germany I do see it as an invasive pest. But at least it attracts a lot of pollinators. The invasive species of Erigeron are worse.

What’s genetic monoculture then? Wouldn’t that be identical to just monoculture? Or is it having the same crop, but different genetic variants on the same field for multiple years?

I’ve taken many pictures of copulating insects and I always feel weird doing that. But for identification purposes it’s great…

I’ve never understood why people buy clothing from expensive brands (except for when there is a real expectation of quality/durability)

Like, I understand it if the choice were only between original and poor-quality rip-off. But usually you can just go with something else that isn’t by an expensive brand and isn’t a rip-off…

True, I had to think of magic cards, too. I would definitely print my own cards if I’d play nowadays…

Nice article! As an outsider I still don’t get why people wouldn’t sell/buy unpainted minis for cheap (e.g. on etsy)

At least it follows the normal text flow and you can read from top to bottom (if you ignore the user names). Not like on xitter, where you have to jump from the middle to top to bottom…

I agree with the second part of that sentence, but who would think that they discover universal truths or any truths at all? The whole premise of science is that we cannot verify anything or find any real truth. We can just show that anything else is much more unlikely to be true.

Lol, have you not seen the OP or have ever looked at plant taxonomy before? There are many different groups where it is dubious if we can apply some sort of species concept.

And you talk about the species concept as if there was only just one?

Hm, it’s good I’d say. There isn’t everything on Tidal and so I have to have some albums on my phone or bandcamp (that is true for Spotify as well). And Tidal isn’t great at distinguishing artists with the same name. But I don’t listen to any popular music and I’m fine. Now that Tidal knows my taste it also gives me some great recommendations. I’ve actually started listening to the “my daily discovery” playlists nearly every day. It updates daily and quite often there is something new and interesting in there. I’ve got an IDM playlist of 539 tracks. And through Tidal I’ve discovered jazz, a ton of vintage african music, luk thung/mor lam, and other genres I hadn’t even known :)

Hm, I have the opposite feeling as well. In a heavily fragmented area without any primary forests left (Germany) I still find sooo many species that were invisible to me before I dared to look. I cannot imagine how it must have been before when humans hadn’t had such an impact on the ecosystem.

But then I also notice how all of these species exist despite our influence. How they try to keep on living in our cities. And that’s indeed very sad.