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Woolly mammoth DNA found in squirrel poop from over 30,000 years ago Scientists believe they can use the DNA to help revive the ancient species

Seems like reasonable odds to me that at some point "GPU" is going to be retconned to stand for "General Processing Unit".

@wylfcen If we could choose to stay young forever we would, but it doesn’t make it right…

Do you support Pikachu’s decision not to evolve into Raichu?

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Scientists have captured footage of the “ugliest shark on the planet” alive in its natural habitat for the first time Goblin sharks have rarely been sighted due to their deep-sea habitat and experts say we know virtually nothing about them

"Okay, so there's a gladiator fight in honor of the, uhh, emperor's birthday. The emperor is so old he can't stay awake. You're thinking "what kind of nightmare is this?" Camera pulls back and you see the fight is on the White House lawn." Rod Serling, on his 87th cigarette: No

@Kicksbuttson The most likely answer (imho) is neurological, and it’s that we have huge amounts of neural hardware and software for recognizing faces and so are rendered uneasy when something triggers that hardware and software without falling well into the expected parameters.

🧵One discussion of evolutionary psychology I enjoy a lot is the debate over the uncanny valley predator theory... You may have heard of it before. It's the theory that our ability to spot and be repulsed by things pretending (yet failing) to appear human is an instinct we developed over millions of years. Which then begs the question, what thing in our ancient past was pretending to be like us? This debate gets a little lost in the supernatural weeds, which is fun. But for that same reason, it also seems really similar to a lot of other debates about the supernatural in science. Scientists are quick to point out that humans are no the only species with a repulsion to the uncanny valley effect. Dogs and cats are also extremely suspicious and aggressive towards copies of themselves. Ever seen a dog react to a stuffed animal that looks a little too dog-like? The rebuttal to this is that dogs actually do have closely-related kin in the animal kingdom who they might need to avoid, which explains why they (and so many other animals) have this instinct. But what about humans? I've heard this theory used to rationalize the belief in anything from vampires to elves, and even ancient alien encounters. The very obvious answer is that in the past we had to worry about other species of intelligent mostly hairless hominin, meaning Neanderthals and Denisovans. Not to mention other subgroups of homosapiens which would spring-forth over the next few thousand years. Yes, you're hardwired to spot things (or people) who look similar to you, yet distinctly different, and it's normal to feel an innate repulsion or suspicion of them. You can say that we practice higher reasoning skills when we overcome this instinct and interact with them on even terms, but when the rest of the world still sees things in a tribal "us versus them" perspective, how intelligent are you for being the only one letting their guard down?

@bryndensraven Can’t be because she’s the queen. Like how you can’t assassinate a guy if they’re nobody. Femicide doesn’t refer to queens being killed by their misogynistic brothers lol

you are correct. "cut her breast, to draw blood to entice Sunfyre" not arm, not face, not chest, not neck...her breast. the language in the text is deliberate.