but I’ve seen some amazing kudzu patches

Yes, and as noted in the article I linked, there is a reason for that. You see everything there is. Kudzu’s amazing ability is to be seen from the window of a car on a road. If there is even a bit of management or the area isn’t clear cut and kept constantly clear of competition from maintenance of the road you’re traveling on, kudzu is more of a dudzu.

Kudzu isn’t even all that bad. The folks in charge of tracking it rate it far lesser of a concern than other oriental invasives. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/

Presumably there would be soil since the scenario envisaged is of them terraforming the planet.

Ear infections definitely are some of the worst pain I’ve experienced. I would put them up there with really bad burns.

A post a few days ago was a bisected picture of a person answering a question about why japanese culture includes photographs of burgers that have been ‘tilted’ or the various layers slid aside to look like a tiered pyramid. At the end of a very ‘reasonable’ sounding explanation of a few paragraphs, the person concluded with something along the lines of, ‘lol, I made it all up, I dunno.’

Example, imaginary numbers weren’t a thing for a good while and some stuff didn’t work correctly

And here’s Lewis Carroll to regale us with a tale that absolutely won’t be misunderstood and taken at face value by later generations about how foolish these silly mathematicians are with their wonky numbers.

I have this really, really irrational fear that I mispronounced it in my head when I was reading this meme.

I would guess that, for the people sending them unsolicited, it’s like the fastest way to get a smash/pass answer. It’s saying “I want to sex you, here’s what I got,” in two seconds rather than the colossal effort to type out two complete sentences. There’s also some unique psychology learning/behavior math that makes the stimulus (dick pic in this case) and its lower successes more likely to continue.

Yes, it’s a bad joke.

That last one really gets down to rituals some in the human world partake in. Never been a big proponent of CBT myself (it is too easily used to lead astray folks into things like ABA without empathy or little sheldons thinking they’re so smart for trying to shape another), but if the mentality is present in multiple species, maybe there’s something to it.

Yes, and if you read the first and second sentences of the wikipedia you’ve linked, you might notice something that I had said in my comment.

Here, I’ll help you out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita

It’s been a long time since I studied octopus anatomy (well, it was really just an overview of the [three?] cephalopods), but don’t they have eight arms, of which only one has the sperm tube? So it’s not like they have a ‘favorite’ arm, it’s just the one arm that can do it, so it’s their favorite arm.

post search: Yeah, it’s called a hectocotylus.

Isn’t the amanita mushroom one of the most deadly, and its unique symptom is that you (seem to) recover after a day or two?

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THEN the second unique symptom hits and you get to open up the abdominal cavity and pour out the remains of the liver.

Grumble, bumble, stay quite humble,

for invisibility is NOT how we tumble.

The species in question is a species of snakes.

They’ve been trying. I occasionally glance through the nra’s magazine because a family member is lust-addicted to the stories of people shooting others to defend themselves, and there have been little articles in their ‘defending gun rights’ section about lead bullet bans for at least a decade now. The nra and other gun lobbies have a lot of money to throw at the issue, and have actually overturned some of the bans, I believe.

Krebs was easy. The pentose shunt pathway and (for me, others said it was easy :'() the urea cycle were nightmares. But I can still draw the phenylalanine -> epinephrine diagram!