[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 3 days ago

I took speed once with a friend and he was completely off the rails, I didn't feel anything. Is that a bad sign?

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Royal jelly for queens is stored in special compartments that are constructed specifically to rear a new queen and they drop the larvae in there. Wikipedia has a pic.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

Other insects mostly. Technically also birds, but birds are too quick and too strong so the fight is usually over before the bee can sting.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 215 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

At first I thought it was blown out of proportion, too. After watching the video, I can only say that if he did that in Germany, he would have been arrested on stage. Let's see what topic-relatedly, profoundly knowledgeable Benito Mussolini, allegedly, had to say:

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

Ah, ok, thanks Benito! Enjoy your fascism that you voted for, America. I hope those egg prices will go down (they won't).

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 244 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

ITT: people who undercook their chicken think that washing is what's saving them when in reality, washing your chicken only enables a host of cross-contamination issues. Congratulations for turning your sink into a biohazard facility.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 137 points 4 months ago

That is not a horn. Purple correctly identified it as a trumpet.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 128 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes, it's @elonmusk

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 146 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Mammals use boob-juice to raise their offspring. That's why they are called that.

As opposed to e.g. birds that don't use boob-juice and instead elect to vomit in their offspring's ingestion orifices.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 164 points 1 year ago

US politics are so wild that it's really hard for me to distingish satire from reality.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 128 points 1 year ago

This is called parthenogenesis and is a known phenomenon, albeit rare in vertebrates. Some species, like the New Mexico whiptail, rely on it (all New Mexico whiptails are female).

Here is a paper from 2007 that talks about parthenogenesis in hammerhead sharks..

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 123 points 1 year ago

I'd like to solve, Alex:

What are different places on Earth from where the eclipse is visible?

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 144 points 1 year ago

Is there any hope for me?

Yes, public transport.

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