Eric
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Eric
@eric_51893
Photos of plants, animals, skies, and some other photosynthetic things.
USA Katılım Mayıs 2024
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I take you don't like them. Bioaccumulation (heavy metals) is probably the main issue with them. The rest is likely nonsense (wouldn't they eat the bacteria?). Agriculture runoff (e.g. N, P, K) would increase phytoplankton and by extension, more bacteria and other organisms, giving them more to eat. Raw sewage is in the bacteria/ag runoff categories, but I'd assume it doesn't stay as raw sewage by the time you eat the oyster? I don't know enough about this, but those are my thoughts.
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Oysters.
The food that filter-feeds through whatever water it happens to be living in, concentrating heavy metals, bacteria, agricultural runoff, and raw sewage into a small grey blob of uncertain texture.
And we serve them raw on ice and call it fine dining.
The oyster is not a delicacy. The oyster is a water treatment system. You are eating the sewage filter and telling your date it tastes like the sea.
It does taste like the sea. That's the problem.
Give A Shit About Nature@giveashitnature
Same water. Same tank. But the one on the right has oysters. A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. Oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay once filtered the entire Bay, 19 trillion gallons, in under a week. Today, with less than 1% of the original oyster population remaining, it takes over a year. We ate them. We dredged their reefs. We dumped nitrogen into their water until the algae blooms choked what was left. And now we build billion dollar water treatment plants to do what oysters did for free. The Billion Oyster Project is working to restore oyster reefs in New York Harbor. Restored reefs in Maryland's Harris Creek can now filter the entire creek in under 10 days and remove nitrogen equivalent to 20,000 bags of fertilizer every year. Nature had this figured out. We just have to restore the oysters and get out of the way.
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@anxietymsgs IQ smart, EQ smart, book smart, street smart? You tell me. Because each is different, so best to deal as you'd have them deal with you. I guess. Things are a bit different, heated, weird on social media (e.g. when you say A and someone reads ABCDEFGHIJ from A.).
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@KingVelesI You probably live too healthy, too close to nature, and don't enjoy headaches. You wouldn't get it (I don't either).
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Can someone explain to me what's so great about coffee? I've never liked it, and at 37, I still don't get the hype.
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I'm learning a few things about social media: what you say isn't what is read, intentionally or not. I don't know why it took so long to figure that one out. If someone wants to make you out to be a bad, terrible person, who supports everything awful in this world, they'll try. Maybe better to stick to photos. This one suites this post well.
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Evolutionary selection pressures in humans:
- Survival via resource acquisition and predator avoidance
- Disease resistance and immune function
- Social cooperation and intra-group competition for status
- Reproductive success through mate choice and parental investment
How pressures shaped male appearance and male attraction to females:
- Appearance: taller stature, greater muscle mass, strength for mate competition
- Attraction: to female youth, health, fertility cues like low waist-hip ratio and symmetry
How pressures shaped female appearance and female attraction to males:
- Appearance: curvier figure, breasts, neotenous traits signaling fertility
- Attraction: to male resources, status, dominance, and genetic quality indicators
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Yes, I get the question perfectly. Research on online scientific discourse (e.g., studies in Nature, PNAS, and computational social science) points to motivated reasoning: people often process facts through identity, values, or group affiliation, leading to rejection or provocation when info clashes with priors. Algorithms amplify emotional/outrage content for engagement, turning nuance into noise. Anonymity and echo chambers worsen it—discourse becomes performative, not exploratory. That's why it feels like garbage sometimes: it's optimized for reaction, not truth-seeking.
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@grok if there is any research, data or information about how people discuss topics online that have scientific theories, data, or consensus. There seems to be a disconnect between what you say as fact/opinion/theory and what the other people read - because their response indicates they don't believe what you said and are just trying to get rise out of you. Do you get this question? I the social media age - why is online discourse - sometimes - essentially garbage?
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@nairndavid_ Curious if you'd expect the bible to mention pasteurized milk, pasteurized honey, or tomatoes. 🙃🤔
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The Bible mentions:
Raw Milk 50 times.
Meat 290 times.
Pomegranates 33 times.
Sourdough Bread 360 times.
Goats 88 times.
Figs 55 times.
Fish 40 times.
Raw Honey 61 times.
Butter 10 times.
Poultry 55 times.
Salt 40 times.
Olive Oil 191 times.
Cheese 3 times.
Grapes 67 times.
Eat Biblically.
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@VanIsleGardener Definitely looks good! Does it smell good too? (the fragrance is where it's at!) 👃😁
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The camellia in the front yard that came with the house is looking good. #FridayPink #SpringFlowers #Gardening
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