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Nature is Metal

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  • MikM Away
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    "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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    • jon-nycJ Online
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      Decisive. Told her twice.

      Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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      • MikM Away
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        Mik
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        Antisemitism sez I.

        "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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        • HoraceH Offline
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          Link to video

          Education is extremely important.

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          • MikM Away
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            Mik
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            Smart snail.

            "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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              Link to video

              Education is extremely important.

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              • jon-nycJ Online
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                jon-nyc
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                He had it coming.

                Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                  https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2025/05/31/burmese-python-florida-killed-bobcat-everglades-video-photos/83945813007/

                  Only about twice the size of domestic cats, Florida's bobcats may be small in size, but they're big in moxie.

                  Case in point: A bobcat appears to have killed a massive, 13-foot Burmese python in the Everglades recently and made a meal of it.

                  The 52-pound male python was a Conservancy of Southwest Florida scout snake nicknamed Loki. Scout snakes have implanted transmitters that are tracked and used to lure breeding females.

                  The invasive snake was found in a pile of debris, apparently mauled, with its head smashed and slashed, and partially buried for later feeding.

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                    Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

                    Link to video

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                    • jon-nycJ Online
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                      Based.

                      Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                      • HoraceH Offline
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                        Genes want to survive. Organisms only think they want to survive, because that thought is useful to the genes.

                        Education is extremely important.

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                          I'd say that genes are just as dispassionate as LLMs are. It just happens to be the case that genes that do not contribute to replicating themselves disappear after a while.

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                            The teeth of the Maine blood worm are made from @copper. (Just joking - made from real copper)

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                              Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

                              Link to video

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                              @taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal:

                              Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

                              Cannot tell from the video whether babies eat each other too. Are the babies smart enough to distinguish mother from siblings?

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                                @taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal:

                                Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

                                Cannot tell from the video whether babies eat each other too. Are the babies smart enough to distinguish mother from siblings?

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                                @Axtremus In my very small research, it appears that

                                • the mother is already dying when giving birth. So, maybe gives off some sort of smell the babies recognize?

                                • there is some bacteria in the mother that helps the babies digest things, which I guess they by instinct know.

                                So, I dont think that they eat other babies.

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                                  Link to video

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                  • MikM Away
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                                    Mik
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                                    That’s funny.

                                    "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                                      Male bees die after mating with females

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                                        Every year in the early days of summer, we get 2 monarch caterpillars and the kids watch them phase into a chrysalis and eventually a butterfly. It only takes a few weeks, a few leaves of milkweed, and it’s a remarkable sight to see to be honest.

                                        This year, our first caterpillar went into chrysalis, and instead of emerging, we woke up one morning to find a string of silk from the hanging chrysalis down to the bottom of the container, after a quick Google it turned out T-flys will infect a caterpillar with parasitic eggs and once the caterpillar goes into chrysalis (hanging mode) the parasite eats the caterpillar from within, resulting in two or three fly larva climbing down a rope like a fucking mission impossible scene, and crawling around the jar until they turn into flies. Gross.

                                        https://www.internationalbutterflybreeders.org/tachinid-fly-by-rose-franklin/

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                                          Pictures or it didn’t happen.

                                          By the way that’s also a lesson for the kids though perhaps a bit gruesome.

                                          Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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