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liv@beehaw.orgto U.S. News@beehaw.org•Montana Man, 80, Pleads Guilty To Creating Giant Mutant Hybrid BighornsEnglish14·1 year agoIt’s a bunch of crimes.
He illegally imported endangered species parts.
Then he cloned them and implanted an embryo which meant he ended up with an endangered species clone.
Then he got hold of wild Montana sheep and bred them with his clone.
With the intention of using them in captive hunting parks, it’s illegal to use wild game in captive hunting in his state.
The whole time he was repeatedly moving his frankensheep across state lines using forged vet certificates.
liv@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•This is the wildest obituary I've \*ever\* read.English12·2 years agoYes, it was quite good. They didn’t really cover all his genocide crimes. I guess it would take a book.
liv@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•This is the wildest obituary I've \*ever\* read.English7·2 years agoMe too.
liv@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Hundreds of OpenAI staff tell board to resign or they'll quitEnglish26·2 years agoRemarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.
I am so confused.
liv@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google Announces to Delete Inactive Accounts, All You Need to KnowEnglish2·2 years agoAh that explains it. Thanks!
liv@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google Announces to Delete Inactive Accounts, All You Need to KnowEnglish11·2 years agoI thought they had already done it. I got the notification months ago.
liv@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•John Oliver's campaign for puking mullet bird delays New Zealand vote for favorite feathered friendEnglish7·2 years agoThe top result is already out. Obviously the John Oliver fans got their wish and Pūteketeke won. Thousands of them had to be disqualified for cheating, though.
We are all waiting now to see who is in second. Fingers crossed for the Fairy Tern, New Zealand’s most endangered bird!
I’ve never used twitter in my life, still have a vague interest in what Musk is doing to it though.
liv@beehaw.orgto Science@beehaw.org•Six newly discovered beetle species include one with bottle-opener shaped genitaliaEnglish8·2 years agoAnother way of looking at it is bottle openers look remarkably similar to beetle genitalia.
I think the beetles were here first.
That tracks.
Pretty sure Elon Musk railed against bots on twitter despite having been proven to have used bots on twitter to manipulate opinion himself.
liv@beehaw.orgto AskBeehaw@beehaw.org•If vampires can't see their own reflection, then how are they always so well-groomed in every piece of vampire fiction?English1·2 years agoI’m absolutely convinced!!!
liv@beehaw.orgto Science@beehaw.org•Cats have nearly 300 facial expressions, including a 'play face' they share with humansEnglish4·2 years agoThat would make sense. The cats in my life have always seemed super expressive to me but I was infatuated with our family cat pretty much from birth.
liv@beehaw.orgto AskBeehaw@beehaw.org•If vampires can't see their own reflection, then how are they always so well-groomed in every piece of vampire fiction?English3·2 years agoAh that’s a good point. Maybe they just use windows or large pools of water.
Or cellphones.
liv@beehaw.orgto Science@beehaw.org•Cats have nearly 300 facial expressions, including a 'play face' they share with humansEnglish8·2 years agoI knew it!! When I was a kid I was told cats don’t have facial expressions but they so do!
liv@beehaw.orgto AskBeehaw@beehaw.org•If vampires can't see their own reflection, then how are they always so well-groomed in every piece of vampire fiction?English22·2 years agoI have several hypotheses:
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the same force that stops them decaying also stops their hair from ever getting mussed up, falling out, or growing longer
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only we can’t see their reflection, they themselves can see it
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vampires are essentially a representation of a parasitical upper class and as such they look like idealised wealthy aristocrats
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Thanks so much, I understand the hypothesis now!!
And that article does show how it could map onto humans. For some reason I had been under the impression that early hominids did not necessarily have the females-as-strangers setup.
It’s interesting to compare with elephants, who are matriarchal. The “Alice” of an asian elephant herd will often stop having kids (though, she biologically still can) so her daughters can have some, even though unlike Charlotte, her daughters are related to her so theoreticly it’s more of a Bob/Daniel situation.
I feel like the stupidest person in the world because I still don’t see the difference between Bob and Alice and now I also don’t understand this part
If Daniel has a child, Bob won’t have a new child, to avoid starving his grandchild.
How does Bob do this? Why doesn’t he just menopause too? If menopause ensures more descendant survival wouldn’t they both do it?
Why doesn’t Alice just die?
The troupe still have to find enough food for her, how is that an evolutionary advantage to keep a non breeding member around?
If something happens to Charlotte now the troupe cannot reproduce unless they go out and find a new female, but if something happens to Daniel then Bob can still reproduce with Charlotte. What is the advantage in that asymetry?
Edit: I was puzzling over the Charlotte factor. Is it more that somewhere along the line the Charlottes of this world were killing the non-menopausal Alices? Because that kind of would make sense.
Thank you so much for taking the time to try to explain it by the way. If you don’t feel like answering my latest round of questions that’s okay!
But isn’t old male and old female POV the same?
For both of them the new babies are biological grandchildren. So why would only one of them want to stop producing more? Why is there not a male menopause?
What am I missing here?
And elephants.
Article about an AI that aims to give treatment suggestions to doctors, with some alarming results.