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  • I’m a biologist.

    Anatomy and taxonomy named by biologists is very technical, often using incredibly specific terms.

    Anatomy and taxonomy named by doctors is exactly like this meme.

    “This vermin is called longboi, here’s the longerinos and let’s not forget about the pair of longdoods”






  • kadu@scribe.disroot.orgtoLemmy@lemmy.mlBit much ain't it?
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    9 days ago

    Won’t that just lead to 5 of every topic?

    That happens on Reddit even with singular communities. Sure, maybe some topics will come up multiple times.

    Also what do you do find new duplicate communities if there were only 4 when you went looking?

    Browse the All feed. See a post you like? Check the community. Not subscribed? Subscribe. Simple.


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    10 days ago

    The solution is to not treat communities like official and unique subreddits.

    On Reddit there’s the PCGaming subreddit. On Lemmy there are more than five. Subscribe to all, or the most active ones, or the ones you align yourself better with… And that’s it, there’s no need to be concerned about which individual post goes on which individual community for a topic, it will federate and others will read it just fine.


  • Here in Brazil there’s a famous brand of chocolate called Baton. The chocolate sells well in general, but lots of kids ask for their eggs during Easter, and they usually come with toy cars or action figures or a water gun or whatever.

    In one particular Easter, the eggs came with a toy that was a long cylinder with a smaller, rounded tip at one end.

    This cylinder had just one feature: it vibrated a lot when you turn it on.

    It also came with a minuscule pen, with almost no ink, you could attach to the device. Their explanation was that it was a fun vibrating pen toy. When asked how’s a pen that vibrates any fun or useful, they had no answer, and why the device was significantly larger than the actual pen, also no answer.

    So for Easter that year, kids got a penis-shaped vibrating toy… And a pen.

    Who doesn't love a good old vibrating pen!



  • While I agree older generations are always complaining about the habits of newers ones, always dooming everything, and that progress is good and unavoidable…

    …I honestly do think we should sometimes sit down and re-evaluate if older habits have a place and if their criticism can bring some truth. I’ve been moving away from the hyper-connected and convenient modernity we live in and adopting older habits like writing my notes with paper and pen, under a candle light, and it’s honestly been fantastic for me, just as an example.




  • Sociologists love making that claim, but it’s not true.

    A long childhood followed by extremely experimental puberty is indeed a biological feature of our species.

    There have been societies that suppressed childhood due to labor needs, but that came after many more had thrived respecting it.

    Modern childhood is indeed new… Compared to western European tradition, not to our species as a whole.