I’ve primarily been playing Celeste and been enjoying it. I made it to the summit and now I’m going back through and trying to find all the strawberries, cassettes, and crystals without a guide and beat the B-Side levels. It’s kind of a slog though, so I’ll probably resort to using a guide eventually. Other than that I’ve been dabbling a bit with Elden Ring and GTA V and playing stuff like Pizza Possum and Plate Up with my fiancé.

Haha parasitic is a much better word to use for laypeople

The correct term is entomopathogenic instead of carnivorous. Species might be Ophiocordyceps humbertii

Stinkhorns basically pop out of and expand out from an “egg”.

Here’s an example of Clathrus rubrus emerging

“Waymo reports that Waymo cars are the best”

Another alternative on the fediverse is NeoDB. I’m trying that one out for the time being. Its interface is pretty barebones and could use some work, but it’s nice because you can track more than books.

Some species of flies and mosquitoes are also pollinators. One cute example of pollinating flies are the Bombyliidae. Mosquito larvae are also important food sources for aquatic and semi-aquatic species like frogs and fish.

Haha there’s a reason why the Xenomorph from Alien is in part inspired by parasitoid wasps.

If you study wasps, you’ll find that they very frequently have odd symbioses from species to species, most often as parasites/parasitoids or hyperparasites. Some even have symbiotic relationships with viruses that assist them in their parasitism - ichneumon and braconid wasps have symbiotic viruses called polydnaviruses.

If you wanna learn about some more wasp pollination, look up fig wasps (Agaonidae). Wasps are legitimately one of the coolest groups of animals.

Interlibrary Loan isn’t available everywhere (at least back when I used to work at a library ~10 years ago it wasn’t). If it is, it often has an associated fee (usually at least shipping fees, sometimes an additional service fee). I think the common exception to that is public university libraries.

But I can’t pirate copyrighted materials to “train” my own real intelligence.

Most likely someone at the AI company would catch it and filter those strings out of the training data.

It stems back to a PR from the SerenityOS project where someone changed a “he” to a “they” in the documentation and the PR was declined for “personal politics”

Here’s an article about it: https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

It does leave out this response by Kling on Twitter:

Librewolf is a fork of Firefox.

From their site:

LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

In the future, Ladybird or a browser built on top of Servo might be alternatives, but both projects are pretty far from being usable right now.

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Alternatively, let’s nationalize Starlink

In our recent election, I was led to believe the president controls the price of eggs.

Honey can technically expire. If it crystalizes, some portions of it can become more diluted, leading to a low enough osmotic pressure for bacteria and fungi to exist. If you do buy in bulk, check your local universities. One in my area does honeybee research and sells bulk honey from their bee lab at cheaper prices than any of the private beekeepers. I use it to make mead.

Maybe Revolt or Matrix?