it’s funny how quickly you get desensitized to comic book nonsense like mister sinister is an insane name for a fictional character it’s so goofy but when i read his name i’m like this is not a laughing matter. we’re talking about cyclops’ traumatic secret laser beam eyeball orphanage surgery backstory. stop laughing.

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When searching for a taxon on iNaturalist, it can take the common name or the scientific name.

If you search for a secondary common name, it'll show the name you search in the results in parentheses after the primary common name.

All this to say, the iNaturalist website accepts "beasts" as a searchable common name for kingdom Animalia.

I know ppl go wild for king/knight and king/jester relationship dynamics on this website but I do want to pitch: knight/jester. Loyal warrior who's not been known to suffer fools and the fool who wants nothing more than to be suffered by them, working under the same leige. Think about it and get back to me

tbh i don't really get why we divide the oceans into different oceans because they're all connected it's the same ocean

no metaphor here just pure confusion...is there a line where one ocean stops and another begins? or is it like a smooth gradient of percentages of one ocean shading into another ocean?

Yes, there is a line. There are confluences you can see and touch and they are NOT subtle in the slightest.

That's the Atlantic and the Caribbean on a particularly pronounced day.

This is the Indian and the Pacific. It's not always this obvious everywhere but the dividing lines are very much there.

Oceans have their own properties as far as temperature and salinity and unless something like a storm or a current forces them to mix they won't. Mostly this applies to vertical mixing and it gives you things like thermoclines and haloclines but water is wierd and won't mix horizontally either.

The ocean basins tend to have their own currents that go in a circle and define that ocean, and those patterns mix the water within that ocean. Like a washing machine.

The Caribbean has a little loop of its own that not on this map, but that current keeps that ocean pretty internally consistent. It's got clear warm water because of the shallow bowl of limestone sand it sits in. Where it meets the Atlantic with wildly different conditions the water is traveling in opposite directions, and it acts kind of like an oncoming lane of highway traffic. Species that have adapted to a narrow band of temperatures and salinities (most fish) can't cross, while species with a stronger homeostasis hang out there on purpose, (marine mammals, turtles, sharks). Plankton, that cannot control their horizontal movement in the water column, are held in their home territories by these barriers.

This is cool as fuck

Cool but also a straight up lie? For no real discernable reason?

Don’t know the details, but honey, if they didn’t like you before, this interview isn’t going to help.

I have seen the second homers come into my lake community and ruin it and push people out and take control of the HOA and try to turn this place into Disney Celebration Village II and now with this air bnb crap where it's even easier to monetize these second homes it's gotten ten times worse. These locusts come in try ban certain colors of houses, and work vans, and at home businesses, and police peoples yards, and mandate any farm equipment must be barn/garage kept and out of sight from the road and this and that and this other thing. They get up at HOA meetings and read reviews of renters and try to pass ordinances to prevent whatever the air bnber complained about. Like no mowing your grass in your bathing suit and only being able to mow or run power equipment certain hours of the day and only on week days. And these air bnb assholes complain about everything like this was some resort and everybody that lives here is like there for their entertainment or convenience. Right now our HOA meetings are like some country about to devolve into civil war. We have factions and caucuses. If you air bnb I hate you as much as the people you rent from.

Thought I recognised this kind of whingy self righteous rhetoric and sure enough, the woman in the article bought a second house in a cornish town and is mad that locals rightfully detest her for increasing the housing crisis.

The article has some really pathetic 'I got told to go back to London:(' whining in too. Lol. Lmao. Imagine having two! Two!! Houses and feeling like the victim. Naturally she thinks renting out her second home to tourists is helping St Mawes, what an absolute moron.

my controversial metric system opinion is that the meter should be 0.0692285593% shorter. This would have no practical benefits, but it would make the speed of light be 300,000,000m/s instead of 299,792,458m/s

alas, since a meter is not only the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/29,792,458th of a second but also 1/10,000,000th of the length of a half-meridian, this would make terrestrial measurements yucky and bad. the only viable choice is to reduce the Earth's circumference by 0.0692285593% to achieve total cosmic harmony

people who have "dni if an exclusionist in any way. also dni if ur a mspec lesbian tho ^-^" like thats exclusion babe. you are an exclusionist.