loaExMachina [any]
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An ichthyosaur, I believe.
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netto Science Memes@mander.xyz•Ach aye, Scottish words for plantsEnglish2·3 months agoIn French it’s also called “pissenlit”, which can be translated the same way if split as " pisse en lit". But although I’d noticed this as a kid, I always thought of it as a joke and assumed the name couldn’t actually come from that…
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netto games@hexbear.net•The future of gaming is not Linux, and I am here to tell you whyEnglish24·3 months agoSo, this is an add for OpenHarmony (a project by OpenAtom with ties to Huawei), with an clickbait title. All of the critics made about Linux are things we’ve already heard from Windows and OSX, or even FreeBSD users, and I am not convinced by the solution they offer. “Offering native ports” is supposedly their biggest perk, but it is possible to make games run natively on Linux, the existence of Proton just makes it not entirely necessary. None of what they describe really seems that new.
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netto Comics@lemmy.ml•Everything Started Improving In 2056English8·3 months agoWell, duh. That’s the whole reason it’s been using ship hulls as temporary shells like a hermit crab. It receded because at its current size it finds military submarines more appropriate. Beside, it enjoys the warmth from the nuclear reactor.
This wasn’t a very serious comment, but now I feel like fighting you on this.
Mammals may have evolved from scaly animals too
Not directly, early therapsids had naked skin. Some earlier synapsids had scales, but it’s unkown if it was a general thing or something that evolved independently in a few lineages. You gotta go back almost as far as fishes for something that was definitely a mammal ancestor and that we’re sure had scales.
some mammals still have scale-like structures (pangolin, some rodents)
Pangolins are scaly tho. As for rodents, only the tail is scaly, so you don’t typically call the whole beast scaly.
Should we also call furries scalies?
It’d be strange to apply it to all furries when only a minority of mammals have scales.
No, hair and feathers are distinct structures from scales.
They all share a common basis (and with teeth as well), but feathers are arguably closer to reptilian scales:
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They’re formed of beta-keratin, like the scales of other reptiles and unlike hair which is made of alpha-keratin.
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Both are attested in dinosaurs, some had both feathers and non-feather scales.
Basically, feathers are directly modified scales. Hair appeared from scaleless creatures, altho it did use a gene that had been involved in making scales in this scaleless creature’s distant ancestors.
You could make a point that bird furries could be called “featheries”, which would be more precise and accurate than " scalies". However in absence of this term (which has been proposed several times bug never really enterered general use, “scaly” is more accurate than “furry”.
Tomato
Irrelevant.
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They should. Birds are reptiles. Feathers are derived scales. Those on the legs still look like scales.
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netto videos@hexbear.net•Rasputin Leads the October Revolution (Real No Fake)English3·3 months agoThere was a cat that really was gone
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•I find this bleak in ways it’s hard to even conveyEnglish6·3 months agogonocide
We must save the polygons !
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netto chat@hexbear.net•My girlfriend brother got made at me for saying video games aren’t a hobbyEnglish2·4 months agoAfter driving him home my sister told me that he spent a lot of money like thousands on online card games and that it was a sensitive topic for him.
As far as we know, it’s the gamer. Tho maybe his parents if thry pay for it?
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netOPto chat@hexbear.net•Why does my company make such a big deal of dealing with the Australian branch?English2·4 months agoI agree.
Tho this post is not actually about Australia
I’ve read a few years ago of AI slop having like an unreadable signature on the bottom right, due to using a lot of data that had signatures there, including many from a same artist. I believe it was a Tweet by RJ Palmer. But what you describe seems more like someone is just putting their name on the slop they generate afterwards, with a simple image processing software.
Another possibility I find a bit less likely would be that it is like that old phenomenon where the ai tries to generate the signature, but it actually does it correctly because it got better at handling text and enough of the art used is from the same person to make a coherent one.
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on south Florida PBSEnglish31·4 months agoA documentary about Mansa Abubakri, a 14th century Malian king said to have sailed west convinced there were lands there to discover; but who never returned. Immediately followed by Star Trek. With some luck it might convince him to leave earth.
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netto technology@hexbear.net•Mark Zuckerberg Lays Out HELLISH Vision For Future Of FriendshipEnglish23·4 months agoOr you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile.
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Elon Musk's Starbase in Texas will officially become a cityEnglish24·4 months agoI was just thinking about how we don’t have enough SpaceX related debris in space and also how we’re way to safe from debris falling on earth.
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Elon Musk's Starbase in Texas will officially become a cityEnglish25·4 months agoI load 16 tons and what do I get?
Another day older and deeper in dept.
It’s a matter of scale, but gravity is often considered the weakest force. In quantum physics, it’s so weak it’s often impossible to measure.
loaExMachina [any]@hexbear.netto chat@hexbear.net•Just wrote a 3000 word essay about the genesis of Islam on zero sleepEnglish1·4 months agoI genuinely want to read it, if you don’t mind! I’m very interested in cube symbolism. [EDIT: I just noticed you say in advance you weren’t sharing it. If that is so, could I at least have one or two of your sources you used regarding cube symbolism?]
Ok, but remember there’s no evidence that Luigi Mangione killed anyone, the whole inquiry was rushed. The mysterious killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thomson should be referred to as “Robin Hoodie” or “the Claim Adjuster”.