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Nature is Metal

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  • MikM Away
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    Mik
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    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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    • jon-nycJ Online
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      Decisive. Told her twice.

      Only non-witches get due process.

      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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      • MikM Away
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        Mik
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        Antisemitism sez I.

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        • HoraceH Online
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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.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            • HoraceH Online
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              Horace
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              #408

              Link to video

              Education is extremely important.

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              • jon-nycJ Online
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                He had it coming.

                Only non-witches get due process.

                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                • taiwan_girlT Online
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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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                  • taiwan_girlT Online
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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.

                      Only non-witches get due process.

                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                      • HoraceH Online
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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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                          • taiwan_girlT Online
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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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                            • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

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

                              Link to video

                              AxtremusA Away
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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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                              • AxtremusA Axtremus

                                @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?

                                taiwan_girlT Online
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                                taiwan_girl
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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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