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Aka Bleating Froglets

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[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I think we agree here in the sense that MSO are within their rights to dismiss him. But I think that the public backlash is very predictable outcome, and the public are right to feel outraged at the MSO for this. I can understand they're in a tough position but cancelling the soloist's performance was really the nuclear option. The cancellation is a much bigger political statement than the soloists comments (which were ultimately about the composition anyway), and if that's the statement the MSO wants to make they're free to do so but they need to accept they're being perceived as not only silencing their own artists, but also defending war crimes (whether that was their intention or not). Just terrible management of the situation.

[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Eh, they played the ukranian national anthem before concerts in 2022. I could see where you're coming from if the soloist actually said something controversial but his statement was literally along the lines of "war crimes are bad" - cancelling his performance for that is a much more inflammatory political statement (hence the huge backlash) than what he said in the first place imo.

[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

(Nerd warning) So awesome to see strigolactones on lemmy. Any other strigolactone researchers out there? I mostly work on the receptor protein D14.

[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

It does seem like whatever integrity there was in politics is quickly vanishing. I'm relieved we don't have quite the same attitude towards religion compared to the US at least. I think Australia is a long way off being a theocracy, whereas the US could be one as soon as next year.

[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

Can't mentally decline if you were never sound of mind in the first place!

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About 2cm long! Cute as hell.

[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

Shame, i thought Furiosa was awesome, although there were only about 5 people in the cinema. The critics seem to be giving pretty favourable reviews too, would definitely recommend going and checking it out. Hope this isnt the nail in the coffin of Mad Max.

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Desert Tree Frog (lemmy.world)

These guys are so pretty, they love hanging out around toilets in the outback.

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submitted 7 months ago by ziltoid101@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

Cool paper from my field. In every plant species there's a hormone receptor sitting there but we don't know what the hormone is yet! Finding the ligand has become a bit of a holy grail for many researchers. This study finds an endogenous ligand for a divergent homologue of this receptor, not of much consequence to most plant species but still enough to have people turning heads.

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Mt Magnet, Western Australia

[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Haha, he did mention that he hates musicals funnily enough

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Several 2cm long frogs were found in this tiny little granite pool in the desert. Any IDs would be welcome, I suspect it could be a Litoria of some sort.

[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I get that it makes sense to have laws to protect people against racially aggravated harassment, but this feels like a stretch and a huge waste of time and resources. That said, Sam Kerr is a role model and this kinda behaviour shouldn't be seen as 'based' or anything imo.

[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

Imagine stumbling home after a night out and you see fucking Barnaby Joyce on the road haha

[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Nah I'm guessing because it's a popular opinion

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[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

OOTL - What features are being removed?

[-] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Nobody is saying that fish are moral agents that can empathise with other beings. That doesn't man that they're not moral subjects; the ability to understand that one is causing harm is not a prerequisite for the ability to suffer oneself. I think everyone knows this intuitively, but it does feel good to have our less moral habits be justified by memes that we would otherwise find to be illogical.

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