jna_sh

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   by jna_sh 2y ago

   For an animal to evolve to fill this niche, the niche would have to convey some advantage that favours their survival and reproduction (i.e. natural selection). Aside from the fact that this isn’t actually a terribly efficient process and i
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   by jna_sh 2y ago

   You’re reading a summary of a working paper published in a mainstream news outlet. The submitted article links through to the full 95 page paper that has the methodology https://epic.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads&#x2F
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   by jna_sh 2y ago

   If any readers want to explore this topic more, a useful term is “ecosystem services”, which captures the various ways that healthy ecosystems support human health.
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   by jna_sh 2y ago

   The US doesn’t do differential equations in high-school? Huh, TIL
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   by jna_sh 2y ago

   This was really lovely to say, thank you!
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   by jna_sh 2y ago

   There is no explanation to why, it’s all cultural and historical. There’s no distinction in conventional taxonomy
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   by jna_sh 2y ago

   The game doesn’t track score, to the extent that frog and toad are not even separate buttons
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   by jna_sh 2y ago

   Sure, but if someone told me they were getting up for a walk on a flight because they didn’t want to get DVT, I wouldn’t go on a tirade about how their life was ruled by fear. That’s what my original comment was intending to address.
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   by jna_sh 2y ago

   One of the things the game is trying to communicate is that this isn’t possible :)
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    There's an explanation at the end of the game!
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    The tree toad gets everyone
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    I don't believe I mocked anyone, maybe I mocked the idea that anyone who wears a seatbelt on a flight is gripped by fear. I apologise to the concept.
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    Oh and regarding the score: I chose not to track or display a score because it didn't feel in the spirit of the game, and besides that, there's no fair way to score it. It can't be based on their common name, as shown in the
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    I've got terrible news for you: inspect the source in browser.
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    Thanks so much for the kind words and thoughtful comment. Regarding the objective, it's targeting the most common understanding of "frog" and "toad", which for most people will be folk taxonomy, and they probably ar
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    That is very much the intent of the game! Frog vs toad is what's known as "folk taxonomy", taxonomy based on people's informal observations and characterisations, and not on the principles of scientific taxonomy. There&#
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    Hi there! I'm the creator of this game, happy to answer any questions people might have. This is a total surprise, thanks so much for playing!
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    Why do you perceive wearing a seatbelt on a flight and minimising time out of a seat as such a high cost/inconvenience? I hear this line of thought a lot, particularly nowadays around masking to avoid COVID, and I’m always intrigued by
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    It was a marked queen in a small hive, this happened at a (shared, membership based) bee park where the keeper keeps hives for breeding, not production. There’s some longer backstory to why the queen was targeted that I probably shouldn’t p
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    Thanks for the detailed explanation!
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    by jna_sh 2y ago

    Funny, I went out on hive maintenance round with a local beekeeper here in the Netherlands, and he was telling me about bee thefts. Not even whole hives, he’s had other beekeepers go in and steal just the queens, effectively killing the hiv
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    by jna_sh 3y ago

    The creators recently announced that they’ve gotten funding to do a 2.0! https://chaos.social/@blinry/111011979500389143 Also, it’s made in Godot, and whilst an older versiob of the engine, I’ve found it a valuable cod
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    by jna_sh 3y ago

    I was really hoping this would be the Ohio cryptic lineage, which was being tracked by the same team https://x.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665444603829407746?s=20
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    by jna_sh 3y ago

    “Modern” is an extremely funny delineation given the small temporal window of this whole thing
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    by jna_sh 3y ago

    I don’t think any part of my comment implied this was happening naturally, but just to clarify: it is a cycle very much driven by human activity. My intent in explaining the cycle wasn’t to say “this is happening anyway without humans start
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    by jna_sh 3y ago

    This article doesn’t cover one of the key contributing factors to this which is the cyclical nature of drought resilience and deforestation. As rainforest is lost, precipitation decreases due to a decrease in tree perspiration, reducing hum
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    by jna_sh 3y ago

    Genuine question, why are you posting this?
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    by jna_sh 3y ago

    I don’t think there is (or needs to be) much more to it than Garry’s personal history and success with Source
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    by jna_sh 3y ago

    Doesn’t the post link to an article that suggests reverse osmosis membranes may be responsible for some of these nanoplastics? Am I misreading this?
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    by jna_sh 3y ago

    Different brew methods extract differing amounts from the coffee, so the amount of water is indeed consequential. Same grams of coffee in to a pour-over vs espresso would result in different amounts of extracted coffee material consumed.