i mean for bacteria it actually is because bacteria can exchange genes across "species" so it's not really a species... at least not in the sense of eukaryotes (where species are defined such that different species cannot exchange genes with each other)
A paper I quite enjoy is "Queer Theory for Lichens" which argued that queer theory is genuinely a useful framework for studying lichens; Lichens resist categorisation in a manner that feels like they're actively mocking our taxonomic efforts.
They occasionally sell the Brussels sprouts on the stalk like that at the farmers market. I feel like some kind of vegetable wizard walking around with it.
Yeah, I know it is a joke and all, but coconuts doesn't have hairs or contain milk, so that particular example doesn't undermine "morphology-based phylogeny" at all.
I lived in the US Virgin Islands as a kid. Our back yard had a seemingly endless supply of mangoes, bananas, avocado, lime, oranges (the real stuff, not the engineered shit we eat in the mainland), grapefruit, bread fruit, acerola, plantains, and pigeon peas. It wasn't even that big a yard. Shit just grows.
They exist in FL and I've climbed trees to get em. I like em when they're yellow. Delicious coconut water and basically a coconut "jelly" lining. I also lived in the Caribbean my early life (2-7) so had a lot down there too, plus fresh sugarcane, guava, mangoes, and a thing we called a plum but was a small tree fruit that I also loved yellow ripeness. After a quick Google evidently called a June Plum or a hog plum. Used to eat em straight from the tree.
Maybe we just disagree on what color "salmon" is, but the meat is what I would call that color. They're like flamingos in that they take on pigment from their diet. For this reason, farmed salmon will not be "salmon" color unless their diet has been supplemented with the pigment.
i think they're only familiar with it (edit: the overripe stuff) because they don't pay attention to their thai food. that has exploded in popularity over the last few decades and fuck yeah.
It's one of twoish (one species of platypus, three of echidnas) mammals on its order (the other order which has all the more normal mammals — placental mammals) it's so different to the other mammals that really all monotremes have in common with placentals is hair and milk
I'm a little sad that everyone's focused on the coconut and missing the reference to the naked man who lives in a barell trolling the father of western philosophy.
Just learn about Diogenes, he's awesome as fuck, hung around with a pack of wild dogs, told Alexander the great to get out of his sunlight, while laying in a pile of trash, dude did not give a fuck.
One of our bioinformatics has a sign at his desk that says "taxonomy is a social construct".
"Yah but nuance is so hard! It's so much easier to just hate everything I don't understand"
i mean for bacteria it actually is because bacteria can exchange genes across "species" so it's not really a species... at least not in the sense of eukaryotes (where species are defined such that different species cannot exchange genes with each other)
A paper I quite enjoy is "Queer Theory for Lichens" which argued that queer theory is genuinely a useful framework for studying lichens; Lichens resist categorisation in a manner that feels like they're actively mocking our taxonomic efforts.
I wonder how many people think that this;
is what a coconut actually looks like.
EDIT:
Coconut as it looks on the palm tree
That coconut is clearly not on a palm tree, mate. /s
To be honest, I've noticed that with lots of foods. I know what the thing looks like in stores, but I have no idea what it's like in nature.
Cashews were another recent one, where I never would have guessed what they look like:
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I guess I assumed 'sprout' meant directly out of the ground instead of a "Brussels tree".
I don't recognize a few of the other ones.
They occasionally sell the Brussels sprouts on the stalk like that at the farmers market. I feel like some kind of vegetable wizard walking around with it.
Brussels sprouts, pineapple, asparagus, rice, peanuts, chocolate.
I just ate wholemeal rice and still would not have guessed rice. 🥴
If that's not a coconut, what the fuck have I been eating?
Edit: Ok. The edit makes it make sense lol.
My preferred method is to use a half inch drill bit and a power drill.
Processed by extracting the liquid from the pulp of the coconut...
Am I just too tired to get the joke?
It literally is the same process. 🤦♂️
You're right, it is. And guess what it says?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_milk
Have you ever had a fresh coconut? They have water in them.
Yeah, I know it is a joke and all, but coconuts doesn't have hairs or contain milk, so that particular example doesn't undermine "morphology-based phylogeny" at all.
Also not a nut.
It's the coco fruit
Of the coco tree
From the coco palm family!
Which is not a tree.
I lived in the US Virgin Islands as a kid. Our back yard had a seemingly endless supply of mangoes, bananas, avocado, lime, oranges (the real stuff, not the engineered shit we eat in the mainland), grapefruit, bread fruit, acerola, plantains, and pigeon peas. It wasn't even that big a yard. Shit just grows.
Have you tried a papaya growing off the roadside?
They exist in FL and I've climbed trees to get em. I like em when they're yellow. Delicious coconut water and basically a coconut "jelly" lining. I also lived in the Caribbean my early life (2-7) so had a lot down there too, plus fresh sugarcane, guava, mangoes, and a thing we called a plum but was a small tree fruit that I also loved yellow ripeness. After a quick Google evidently called a June Plum or a hog plum. Used to eat em straight from the tree.
On related news, the salmon fish is not salmon color... And beef comes in larger packages on nature.
Why, sure it is! 😬
Maybe we just disagree on what color "salmon" is, but the meat is what I would call that color. They're like flamingos in that they take on pigment from their diet. For this reason, farmed salmon will not be "salmon" color unless their diet has been supplemented with the pigment.
that looks underripe to me
(from researchgate), Maturity stages of coconut: a) young; b) early ripening; c) ripe
i think they're only familiar with it (edit: the overripe stuff) because they don't pay attention to their thai food. that has exploded in popularity over the last few decades and fuck yeah.
Underripe is when it's nice and full of water. Best when thirsty. Dry and ripe, best when hungry.
Coconuts are tropical! This is temperate zone!
BEHOLD! THE MAMMAL! IT GIVES MILK AND HAS HAIR!
(And has venomous claws, lays eggs, has electroreceptors, glows under UV, has 10 sex chromosomes, genetically it’s a mix of reptiles and mammals…)
sounds like average republican
Please do not insult the platypus like that!
If the venemous claws fit.
but what if platypus is republican?
😵
i'm just sayin'. there are possibilities. you know the climate change, chemtrails - things get weird))
Proof that God is fucking with us
I tell you it’s just an Echidna that made love to a Lizard and that’s how we got the Platypus.
Was the duck an innocent bystander or willing participant?
Videographer that accidentally mixed his genetic juice with the copulating couple
It's one of twoish (one species of platypus, three of echidnas) mammals on its order (the other order which has all the more normal mammals — placental mammals) it's so different to the other mammals that really all monotremes have in common with placentals is hair and milk
Ok, but chickens produce milk too, just like coconuts:
wiki/Crop_milk
Also dis:
Some spiders also produce milk.
So they are coconuts.
Hmm... I am a quack, therefore I duck?
Big Diogenes energy
I'm a little sad that everyone's focused on the coconut and missing the reference to the naked man who lives in a barell trolling the father of western philosophy.
Actually, it's about the teeth.
Yes, wiki/Vagina_dentata.
If it doesn't have a tail, it's not a monkey, even if it has a monkey kind of shape.
Apes are a kind of monkey
Not if they don’t have a tail.
Monkey, the order for all simians include apes. In common usage "monkey" means any simian except apes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--szrOHtR6U
I think a rabbit would be more accurate. Seeing as how a chicken has a beak. Also something cloaca
It's in reference to Diogenes being a dick to Plato.
Neat. I should read more
Just learn about Diogenes, he's awesome as fuck, hung around with a pack of wild dogs, told Alexander the great to get out of his sunlight, while laying in a pile of trash, dude did not give a fuck.
The original punk
in ancient greece, they asked a philosopher, "what is a man?". he said "a featherless, bipedal creature". and then diogenes entered the scene
That philosopher was Plato.
And then everybody clapped