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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Yeah from my brief reading it seems they can adapt to food salinity by altering their urine concentrations so I don’t think that’s a huge factor, at least it’s not something that comes into play before the other factors begin to harm them. But if you could fix their skin and buoyancy, diet may start to matter. But their prey is also a different salinity than the water it lives in a lot of the time, and sometimes they eat land animals like birds and such ofc.



  • There are types of freshwater river dolphins in the Yangtze (well, one of these species probably is extinct there as of recently but still) and the Amazon, for example. Sea dolphins can survive in freshwater for awhile but their skin isn’t adapted to it, and it will get damaged eventually. That and the difference in buoyancy in sea water vs freshwater leads to the sea dolphins eventually getting exhausted in freshwater.



  • Hi gkd,

    Some random issues with Memmy have been cropping up in the last month, things like issues loading old inbox messages and replies, certain communities not showing up in the subscription list intermittently (within the same instance I am on so seemingly not a federation issue), and embedded image formatting issues causing the app to freeze. Not sure if it’s just having trouble with the latest updates to lemmy.world or what.

    Hope you are well and have been able to get some rest, unfortunately I may have to switch apps for now but I am looking forward to when you have more time and energy to work on this wonderful app again!


  • Interesting. Do you know if they would be masquerading as a woman to push their weird agenda, or just to troll? It is definitely interesting when people are crazy and talented like that, though in this case the talent is more interesting for sure… their grandstanding and transphobic takes aren’t really an original or unique brand of crazy, pretty basic. I would probably have to dig deeper to see the depths of the weirdness but my brain only has so much tolerance for consuming that kind of bs.





  • The reason all cops are bastards is that it’s incentivized by the police force itself. Cops who speak up about the misbehaviour of other actual bastard cops, are mistreated and even pushed out. This leads to a situation where they will look the other way when shitty cops do shitty cop things, in order to keep their job or feel safe or just not have a terrible time at work. But by looking the other way, they have been corrupted and are a huge part of the problem.

    I’m sure logically there are some niche situations where a cop has never faced that choice and hasn’t done anything morally reprehensible themselves, but ACAB is more about the corruption necessitated by the system than the actual day to day conduct of cops who aren’t directly evil. Of course it’s good that someone stops people on murderous rampages, but the system supporting those people is broken in a very dangerous way that lets them also get away with terrible crimes.

    If you have a good relationship with your sister-in-law you could ask if she’s ever seen or heard of or suspected any bad behaviour by her fellow officers, and what she did about it?





  • I agree with you completely. I made my guess because they usually mention if a bear had cubs present during an attack, but it is an oversimplification to say the bear decided to see people that way for sure. All I meant by it is, once a bear is triggered into overcoming that fear or wariness and attacking/killing and possibly eating a human, there is a higher risk of them doing so again (unsurprisingly, if the behaviour was successful from the bear’s perspective).

    It is a very arrogant and anthrocentric approach. I don’t condone it but I also don’t expect anything better (such as reducing human encroachment into their territory) because I am rightfully(?) jaded.