JohnnyEnzyme

I remember… Alan Garcia with his stupid-ass “agua por todos” campaign, or whatever that fraud deal was. So I’m always worrying about El Perú… all my dear relatives there. And the land, of course. The dear, wonderful, spectacular, dry landscape and biome of Perú. <3

Ah, dammit… so much fresh-water for us depends on melting glacier ice to create potable water sources, no?

Do we have a location?

I thought it was Avenida de los Gigantes, CA at first, but obviously not…

Is this a town / city in which the various nightclubs, hotels and such around the world are actually more famous than the town / city itself?

And it’s good to have friends like that, yeah?

As in, those able to entertain competing ideas in their heads without cracking up, or painting you as the weirdo, etc.

Hmm, question-- how much do / does your wife and friend-group get impacted by your animal-focused life? Do they ‘catch the fever’ to any certain extent? Do they follow your online work on the Fediverse or wherever else…?

Excellent!
There’s also the fact that most spiders have mouth-parts completely incapable of breaking human skin, so a little diagram or example of such might be worth finding and sharing with the wife?

Now, whoever’s reading may hate me for this, so go ahead and hate, but there’s some interesting ideas here I wasn’t aware of: (includes a boatload of high-quality supporting links, not unlike a good Wikipedia entry)

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a876492-d118-83ea-9835-17f1868c8248

Sounds good!

One thing I get a certain naughty kick out of is the way domestic cats (originally African wildcats) startle so easily when they see snake-like objects in the area. Makes perfect sense to me, though, as they’d be natural prey to various snakes across the greater range of their habitats.

OTOH, on our end, we seem to be unusually scared of some animals, such as spiders, even though spiders for the most part are natural allies, especially in our homes. We so silly…

Try here.

@anon6789@lemmy.world’s been doing a killer job with it. 🙂

Fun fact:

Snake venoms are generally classified into four main functional types: neurotoxic (attacking the nervous system), hemotoxic (disrupting blood clotting and destroying red blood cells), cytotoxic (destroying local cells and tissues), and myotoxic (causing rapid muscle breakdown).
https://a-z-animals.com/animals/snake/snake-facts/4-types-of-snake-venom/

Hmm, kinda reminds me of various places Buddha was depicted as lecturing from in Tezuka’s graphic novel of the same name.

!historyruins@piefed.social would also like this…

Across the pond, we’re in the early stages of that. 😑

I’m liking a stature of David Bowie for that last open spot. Dressed as Aladdin Sane, let’s say.

That’s debatable, as with all comics. I’ve seen older stuff of his and found it fairly creative, intelligent, and yes, funny. I’ve seen later stuff that I thought pretty much sucked.

Same with Jim Jefferies really, and that guy is easily 2-3x the standup comic Rogan ever was.

If only he remained just that, with his fine Newsradio performance and solid standup under his belt.

But, NO…
(summons John Belushi)

Well, I certainly hope so!

A sculpture, essentially?

(now if we could just get an Escher-style drawing of Ned Flanders’ extended family walking endlessly in that loop)

I think so.

Maize is monoecious, with separate male and female flowers on the same plant.[3] At the top of the stem is the tassel, an inflorescence of male flowers; their anthers release pollen, which is dispersed by wind.[3] The female inflorescence, some way down the stem from the tassel, is first seen as a silk, a bundle of soft tubular hairs, one for the carpel in each female flower, which develops into a kernel (often called a seed. Botanically, as in all grasses, it is a fruit, fused with the seed coat to form a caryopsis)[4] when it is pollinated.[3] A whole female inflorescence develops into an ear or corncob, enveloped by multiple leafy layers or husks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Description

Same thing with corn, I think?

That symbol kinda looks like it’s an approved street to throw lightning bolts on. :D

Interesting, thanks!

This begs so many Q’s-- how did they stack it that high? Could you actually pull material from the bottom, and due to the way the wood is stacked, the whole thing was as stable as ever? Did major accidents happen with this approach?