The success rate in humans for something discovered in mice is about 1 in 100.

So a lot of the scientific journalism presenting a mouse model as a major discovery that will revolutionise [X disease] is straight up bad faith clickbait.

Assuming they survived would probably fuck with fish populations and thereby the predators of fish and the predators of predators of fish.

Hey. The penguins i’ve seen in Melbourne look quite happy.

They even won a photo award ;)

It’s actually bears. The north is named by the Greeks after the Ursa Major constellation in the north literally “big bear”. So it’s the bear place. While the south is the opposite of the bears.

Happy coincidence it ended up matching polar bear ranges.

Apparently you could spot these bois chilling in Southern Spain or Florida.

I have great news for you, There’s a documentary series narrated by David Attenbrough called prehistoric planet. And is does exactly this. The next season will be on the most recent period (ie. ice age), so possible we will see these great auks that look like penguins.

Colonial name for Aotearoa

The tool measures distance with vocabulary. Afrikaans may be closer in vocabulary but pronounced very differently (since there’s way less cross talking since it’s so isolated), which would make it harder to understand to a Dutch speaker?

Yes. This is often true. But Flemish and Dutch are far far closer in linguistic distance than dutch and german.

And they are completely mutually intelligeble. Unlike Dutch and German, (which I prefer to call hochdeutsch, since german is a nationalist contruct that erases many other languages spoken by peoples living in Germany-Switzerland-Austria.)

Like here we get a distance between Flemish and Dutch of 5.6, that’s the lowest I’ve ever seen with this tool.

While 13.5 with Dutch and German.

Compare that to French and Occitan, Occitan is a Romance language in southern France, which got erased and often claimed it’s just “part of french”. The distance between them is 20.

Edit: Playing round a bit more with the tool, Your point is proven. The distance between Dutch and Afrikaans is lower. Only 2. Yet that’s considered different languages.

For the people like me who don’t know much physics. The answer is Time Dilation.

Happy cake day :)

a traditional English term used to describe a political community as having been founded for the common good,

Ah yes, sure the indigenous peoples agree

Suprised no ones attacked you for calling Flemish Dutch ahhaha.

(They lowkey are the same language but many people in Flanders hate it being called dutch ahhaha)

Thanks :)

The indigenous people were doinf controlled burns and had this all under control.

But then the colonisers took over and were more woried about protecting short term property value than long term sustainability so we got overzealous fire protection as a ticking time bomb.

This heathenous map adds basque and catalan, welsh, scottish gaelic, but somehow erases breton and occitan.

I dunno how it translates french “fou” into “new”. “fou” means mad/crazy.

MAGA are gonna make a conspiracy that climate change is invented by insurance corpos to gain money.

(Watch them have the right instict that the common person is getting swimdled and then somehow end up blaming exactly the wrong things)

I heard Mint and Elementary both mentioned a lot for switchers.

Any reason you recommend mint over it?

Never tried either of them myself so just curious.