My housemate is very friendly and her night terrors do not manifest as the “hysterical screaming” she warned me about. A few yelps now and then – nothing alarming.
She does, however, have some very… uh. Interesting ideas about health. I’ve lost track of all the weird shit she’s said, but last week she encouraged me to replace sunscreen with coconut oil for my very photosensitive skin and then gave me a huge bag of diatomaceous earth… to eat.
Diatomaceous earth kills insects because it’s fine and sharp and clogs up their breathing holes. That’s about all it’s good for. If someone has intestinal parasites (and this includes pets) they should probably take actual antiparasitics, DE is not effective when swallowed. It’s also very, terribly bad for your lungs, and I suspect not great for your innards in general.
Your dog is a fucking GMO because of selective breeding. Quit using fear mongering conspriacy theories to fuel your rage against “big scary science”
Selective breeding is not the same as GMO tech? GMOs are often organisms that could not occur from normal crossbreeding?
Like look I don’t think GMOs are dangerous to human health or killing us all or whatever, but can we not use inaccurate comparisons please? Yes, humans have been altering the genes of things since we started agriculture. No, selective breeding is not the same as lab-created GMOs which often contain genes from different species that couldn’t be crossbred without human-initiated specific gene splicing in a lab. No, this doesn’t make GMOs intrinsically bad or dangerous, but yes, there are very good reasons to be concerned about GMOs from a standpoint of preserving genetic diversity in agriculture, preventing corporate monopolies of the food supply, and preventing us from digging ourselves deeper into problems like pesticide and herbicide dependence that stem from the kind of homogenous monocrop system practiced in much of the developed world.
By all means, fight the conspiracy-theory type stuff about GMOs. Some of it is really wacky and harmful. But at least use an apt analogy, and recognize that there are plenty of reasons to oppose GMOs that have nothing to do with their safety for human consumption, many of which are perfectly valid.
Selective breeding is literally a type of GMO. The thing you’re whinging about is just genetic modification which is one way in which GMO’s are created.
Seems like you’re confused as to what GMO entitles and means based on your hyper focus on what part of GMO’s and GMO tech.
So you really shouldn’t be saying what is or isn’t considered GMO when you yourself are still confused.
A good example is a type of rice that was recently genetically modified to help it survive flooding. Instead of selectively breeding it to survive flooding, which is entirely possible but would take many generations and was far too slow to solve the immediate problem of people starving after floods, the rice was spliced with a gene from a grass that can survive flooding. This produces the same result as selectively breeding the rice for that trait, but much, much faster, in time to save lives.
Corporate monopolies, lack of genetic diversity in agriculture, and pesticide/herbicide dependencies do not come from GMOs. The same thing can come from corporations selectively breeding plants for certain traits. Corporations and current agriculture methods are the issue there, not GMOs. Don’t forget that whole “the pollen from my patented corn blew into your corn, so now I own your corn seeds” business- again, people causing that, not GMOs.
GMOs are the future of agriculture. Plants can be modified to do better in all sorts of artificial farming situations that take far fewer resources than traditional farming, like aquaponics. If we’re going to terraform other planets and live on them, we are going to do it by developing GMOs to help us.
Some people use the Internet to communicate and arrange criminal acts. That doesn’t make the Internet bad, that makes the Internet a thing that people can use for unpleasant purposes.
Hey, this medical show actually got a legit timber rattlesnake to play the part of a timber rattlesnake discovered in a field! They didn’t just get a ball python and play rattlesnake voiceover noises!
all of these are for an event i am planning in ffxiv next week
it’s a big market and all of these items are going to be for sale – or rather, the first two are free (you can have as much nonbooze lemonade as you like, only 3 cups of the boozy exotic blossom punch tho)
then one of the punch ingredients, and special maple candy shotglasses lol
basically this was one long exercise in me realizing idk what the fuck a plant looks like. this is probably when @gallusrostromegalus would tell me that i am halfway to becoming a botanical illustrator (by realizing idk what the fuck a plant looks like). however instead of actually learning what the fuck a plant looks like by thoroughly looking at it, i just blazed the fuck onwards after like 5 mins of googling. so: lemons and strawberries in first pic, then plum blossom + plum slice + chamomile, then chamomile + rhubarb + at some point i just started making up vague greenery, then a maple leaf
honestly what the fuck is rhubarb though.
Nah, the parts where you went “Fuck it. I’ve done enough research to get this project done to the degree it needs to be” and got mad at rhubarb for being rhubarb are the parts that make you a real botanical illustrator.
I love them, btw. Are you planning on coloring them or do you mind if I use these lines as digital color practice?
reminds me of the time dad couldn’t get into the case of water bottles, silently came into my room w/out knocking, took one of the swords off my wall and walked back out
I was about to complain about y’all’s weird weapon collections then I remembered I’m getting a Wedding Axe.
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