egrets

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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

O beautiful for smoggy skies
Insecticided grain
For strip-mined mountain's majesty
Above the asphalt plain!

America! America!
Man sheds his waste on thee
And hides the pines with billboard signs
From sea to oily sea!

(Not to greenwash China, but Carlin didn't do a song for them.)

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oops, my escape characters didn't work - comment updated, but in case it takes a while to syndicate to other instances, it's https://www.behance.net/gallery/50179455/DISCOVERY-(FREE-3D-MODEL-DOWNLOAD)

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

For comparison:

Little-known fun fact: the image of the two astronauts was specifically generated for this meme. Earlier iterations were crude MS Paint drawings.

The 3D model used for the shot is by Domenico d'Alisa, from a project that got cancelled: https://www.behance.net/gallery/50179455/DISCOVERY-(FREE-3D-MODEL-DOWNLOAD)

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Read before writing multiple paragraphs of total crazy talk

This is ironic -- you're the one not to have read and understood the comment. Note the last line:

Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

They were responding to the last bit:

Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Why does the last frame of Part II work so well? 👏

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I'd love to see something like r/simpsonsfaces on the Fediverse, but with expanded scope. Intermediate frames in older animation can be amazing.

Some quick examples from that corner of the web.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At around 1.7 million times the weight of the Earth, it's not all that light.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Baguette is genuinely a diminutive, but the French is a loanword from Italian bacchetta "little stick," from bacchio "stick."

Funnily enough, "bacteria" also means "little stick" due to the shape of the first ones seen under a microscope, and the word shares the same etymological root (reconstructed as *bak- in proto-Indo-European), but in Greek -- bakterion is a little staff, baktron is a staff or stick without the diminutive.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This only really works with respect to the GNU Project, as the animal is generally pronounced with a silent "g".

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I don't know if there have been studies on it, but anecdotally, the diet of a pet can have a significant impact on its longevity -- a matter of years.

If it's true, it's still probably multifaceted -- there'll be considerations like nutrition, likelihood of more general care for the animal, etc -- but I'd speculate that harmful substances like PFAs seems like a likely factor.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

As best I can tell, people on Snapchat and TikTok are kicking off "linkups" at an agreed place and time, and some of them are going viral.

I think the aim is genuinely to cause a bit of chaos, given safety in numbers, but I doubt most people attend with the intent of causing serious damage to people or property.

 

A personal favourite. I'm excited by this community!

(edit: the studio recording is a little rough, but this YouTube version is especially scratchy - better to look for it on your platform of choice, unless it's Spotify, because fuck Daniel Ek in particular)

 

A total of $3011 was raised for the Cancer Research Institute during Creation Mod Con this weekend - thank you all so much 🤍

If you were hoping to see some of the other locations that appeared in the polls, keep an eye on our Twitch channel in the coming days for a glimpse at some of what we missed 👀

 

Image: a stained-glass window showing the Aedric god Julianos, and a Daggerfall group photo showing Julian LeFay with his leg propped on his knee.

 

We had an hour-long team stream with brand new content as part of C3 in aid of Make-a-Wish International. Check our the full video in shiny 1440p with captions and chapters. At time of posting, donations are still open! Thanks for those who helped us reach our goal for Make-a-Wish ❤️

 

Join us TOMORROW on a Twitch livestream as we look back at our 2024 progress - we'll stream at 18:00 UTC / 13:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific.

Blessings of Almsivi and all the ancestors for 2025 from the Skywind team.

 

The Crabtree effect is where Saccharomyces and Brettanomyces yeasts digest carbohydrates both anaerobically – producing ethanol, an antiseptic – and aerobically. Most yeasts in the presence of both sugar and oxygen prefer to only convert these to carbon dioxide and water, which is considerably more efficient but doesn't deter competitors for that sweet, sweet sugar.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/08/03/why-isnt-bread-alcoholic/

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by egrets@lemmy.world to c/eyebleach@lemmy.world
 

Who knew botflies could be cute?

Description: an adult deer botfly (Cephenemyia stimulator) on a rock. Its body is covered with fur-like cetae, yellow and black, resembling a bumblebee a little. Its eyes are large and black.

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