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  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzWILD Jellyfish Gang
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    6 months ago

    There is a species of jellyfish which is functionally immortal. When they get too old they simply turn into children again and re-age.

    Edit: I’m not saying it’s not biologically immortal, I’m saying functionally immortal because I’m indicating that it can still be killed.

    Saying something doesn’t experience aging is not the same as insisting it cannot die.

    2+2=4 is not less correct because 2x2 also equals 4.





  • No you nailed it. The meme is a poor metaphor because it implies that the system has ever been superman or that OP believes it to have been superman.

    Or that capitalism only behaves like Homelander when times are tough.

    For many people Capitalism has always treated them like Homelander. For many people they’ve never seen the Superman fascade.

    So this meme reads as though the creator only recently learned some world history, or has some privilege in life but is becoming aware of reality for others.

    You could also fix it by just having Homelander say “I’m you!”








  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYes, but
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    1 year ago

    I open the toilet seat to have a pee, a three foot flag unfurls from the ceiling, ITS HONDAFEST!

    A small corporate social media account emerges from the bowl, screaming relatable phrases it copied from r/memes. ITS GIVING SAVINGS, FAM NO CAP.

    My wife enters asking if I’m ok. I reach out for her, too late, she has become a smiling vacant eyed Summer’s Eve ad. Not so fresh, I weep.




  • I just want to point out that this source indicates researchers reviewed 1500 papers on the topic and found that unsupported claims had doubled.

    However, they never indicate the number or give a percentage of those 1500 papers that featured unsupported claims.

    So is it doubling from 2 to 4, or from 700 to 1400? Because that’s a major difference.

    This is a problem with AI articles on science. They skim other AI articles and repeat without bringing all the important facts with them. Then we get dozens of results for one claim about science, with only maybe one or two original sources.

    Then the idea spreads through reddit or whatever forum you prefer.

    We know trees share resources, that they have been demonstrated to signal pain and danger to other plants, that they signal food availability to pollinators via electromagnetic fields. We have had hard evidence for all of this.


  • The mycorrhizal networks are a real phenomenon, and as recently as 2016 were confirmed to share resources between trees.

    Researchers exposed certain trees to a specific carbon isotope and found their unfed neighbors were processing that specific isotope despite not being exposed.

    We’ve also found that many plants generate interacting electrical fields that help promote pollination and may indicate to pollinators which plants are ready to be harvested.

    We’ve also found, by sequencing fungal DNA, that mother trees do have a resource sharing preference for their direct offspring.

    We don’t have hard evidence for direct communication between trees, in the sense that we don’t speak tree. We do have hard evidence that they share resources, have preferences, express pain signals externally and other plants react, and can indicate information to other species.