Something that stands out to me is how the most colorful creatures are good at evasion. Birds and bugs flying or reef creatures have hiding holes. Other colorful life tends to be toxic.

For this reason I doubt the huge species had color that stood out from their environment.

Subjectivity has conviction in the face of adversity. Objectivity will change based on new information.

Both have their value but there is great conflict between them.

My wife is subjective and I am objective. This has caused her to get quite upset in conversations.

For a long time, the One Blade was the only razor that didn’t pull my hair. Then they changed how they made them and started pulling. I no longer use it.

If subtitles are on I may as well be deaf because I’m no longer watching with those damn words getting in the way. That’s what books are for.

Have you ever tried earthworm milk?

Little pieces of a jellyfish can become new jellyfish. They can reproduce sexually or asexually. The Immortal Jellyfish is even weirder. They are some of the simplest multicellular animals after sponge and coral.

You forgot the spikes of bahia and the variety sandspurs here in Florida.

That sounds like a wonderful journey of reflection.

My personal view is that hope as a foundation is complete bullshit. My foundation is, in the most positive version of nihilism, “ultimately, nothing matters.” I look at it as a clean slate. You get to decide what is important to you and persue it! I study all of nature to find purpose or meaning. I take joy in human ingenuity. I take sorrow in callousness. I appreciate what I have and want better for everyone.

Hope is a fine outlook but not something to lean on. It can kill motivation when expecting some ‘other’ to fix things. That can reward the callous and hamper ingenuity. It does not drive people to be better but can drive them to follow depraved systems of belief when they are promised post mortem reward or punishment.

Sponge are some of the most simple animals alive. Jellyfish are comparatively not too far off.

That’s a good point. I haven’t used drafting software in a long time, but that shows this imagery is a practiced skill rather than an innate ability.

Must be nice having an inner voice.

That looks like a healthy cry. She will go through much self reflection and come about as a better person.

Nope! She has spent her life with a religious as her backbone and now will seek it as a crutch with greater desparation. Trauma…survival mode…etc…

Paras is a fungus. Totally different thing.

Humans along with their cats and pigs have done a lot of damage to biodiversity around the world. It’s just one element of the 6th mass extinction we are causing.

Does that chart account for partial cuts that destroy ongoing studies? The kind that would have to be completely scrapped because one element is lost. Even worse, if all replication or even repetition were cut, then we are throwing out all of science.

I hope Europe is able to step up like they were talking a couple weeks ago.

You, for being such a whiny little bitch of a sore loser.

We would make it too complicated. Almost all animals are in survival mode. Some that have free time could understand limited concepts. It would be easier to setup commerce with some corvids for example but not to keep them out of the corn fields. Dogs would have a lot more anxiety and cats wouldn’t change much.

Some of my students act like that. You are in school, put them away!

Not to give the argument credibility, but there are women who do that. I knew one and heard about another.

Confirmation bias is too strong for everyone to resist. They often don’t even need a single varifiable source.