Yes, bisexual means something else in both contexts…

Well, if it works for you, great. But that doesn’t mean that it will work for anyone else.

OK got It, so mostly oregano-ish with notes of thyme :)

Looked it up because I hadn’t heard of it. Wikipedia say the following:

Common names in English include Indian borage, country borage, French thyme, Indian mint, Mexican mint, Cuban oregano, broad leaf thyme, soup mint, Spanish thyme.

What? So does it taste like a mix of borage, thyme, mint and oregano?? Sure, they are all Lamiaceae (except for borage), but they have wildly different aromas!

How is bread and sugar not plants?? Oversimplifying stuff doesn’t make it better…

Yes, that’s what I wondered, too. In ant nest parasites they usually are visually very different from the ants, but get the pheromones right. In this example here, visual clues have to be important for the beetle to have evolved such a sophisticated mimicry.

It’s maybe comparable to a bee hive or ant nest losing it’s workers. Each single one of them isn’t important at all. But if nearly all of them are gone, the hive/nest will do much worse or even collapse.

Lol, found an iNat guy in the wild! I immediately knew @neontetraploid because I’ve tagged them hundreds of times on iNat :)

Oh of course, I didn’t consider the “I know you don’t either” part. Thanks, I got it now :)

Uff, ich bin müde und hab die Überschrift so gelesen, dass die Grünen in Kiew liegenden, eingefrorenen russischen Menschen aus welchem Grund auch immer Milliarden Euro zukommen lassen. Hä?

Thanks for the explanation, but I cannot follow on this line

Since he knows that Bernard doesn’t know given just the row, each ball in that row is in a column that contains more than one ball.

Why is that? Why couldn’t it be A2 or A3? In this case neither Albert nor Bertrand could tell what row/column this was either, because it would be in a row/column with another ball. How can you exclude any row with overlap with any single-ball columns?

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Same!

Ich verstehe vollkommen, warum du die Kirmes-Burschenschaften aus Prinzip vor Vorverurteilungen verteidigst. Aber ich glaube, dadurch schützt man sehr schnell die diskriminierenden Strukturen, in denen wir leben. Wenn ich immer wieder erstmal davon ausgehe, dass Menschen mir wohlgesinnt gegenüber auftreten, obwohl ich immer wieder Diskriminierung und Gewalt erfahre, dann lernt man schnell, dass man damit vorsichtiger sein sollte. Und ich bin mir sicher, dass viele diskriminierend und gewalttätig agierenden Menschen, wie auch die Menschen, die diese wiederum schützen, genau diese Unschuldsvermutung ausnutzen, um sich eben dahinter zu verstecken. Dann kann man wie in diesem Beispiel hier sagen, “Nein, wir meinten das gar nicht so”, “das war ein Einzelfall und ein schwarzes Schaf”, etc. So macht das die Polizei ja auch ständig, wenn sie mal wieder massiv diskriminierende Gewalt anwendet, aber niemand dafür zu Rechenschaft gezogen wird. Und da hat die andere Person, mit der du hier diskutierst, tatsächlich einen guten Punkt gemacht. Solche Strukturen schützen sich untereinander, daher haben dann deren Mitglieder keine ernsthaften Konsequenzen zu erwarten. Sieht man ja ständig bei der Polizei.

Ich finde also, es sollte bei Burschenschaften, patriarchalen Seilschaften und Männerbünden jedweder Art erstmal von schlimmeren ausgegangen werden. Alles andere ist naiv und schützt diese davor, wirklich Verantwortung für ihr eigenes handeln übernehmen zu müssen.

Ich wäre richtig gerne dieses Jahr ins Elbsandsteingebirge oder die Mecklenburger Seenplatte gefahren. Aber alleine und als trans Person würde das halt echt zu gefährlich sein :(

First of all, sorry if my comment sounded like I’m dismissing the position of other people commenting before me. I tried exploring the other side of the argument and am genuinely open to any outcome here.

1. Hm yes, maybe not malicious, but the quoted portion from the iNat forum sounded very much like the person commenting described the iNat stuff as untrustworthy.

2. I’m probably not knowledgeable enough to really have an opinion. I’d have thought that there are some use cases where generative AI can be helpful. But you have a point in that iNat actually relies on correct and trustworthy results.

3. yeah, I get that and I’m not in favor of it either. But it’s probably also a cost-benefit calculation for iNat to get a grant from Google and having to work on some sort of generative AI.

4. Sorry, I’m out of the loop. What are you referring to?

5. OK fair, maybe that was a bit much, sorry. I think it is a huge step to delete your account and leave a community just based on the mention of generative AI and I have a hard time getting into the head space. Like, sure, if you invested little time in the site. But I’ve put thousands of hours in iNat and would certainly need a strong incentive to delete my account…

Well sure, I also felt annoyed when they first announced generative AI. But I’m pretty confident in that iNat staff isn’t doing anything malicious and this example shows how they were thinking of an actual way to use generative AI in a productive way. Will this feature ever make it? Probably not, because all the testing to get it to sufficient accuracy would be enormous.

Another example of generative AI (if I’m not mistaken) would be the feature they are testing, where you can type in something to search for taxa.

Both times they use generative AI as a specific tool for a specific task and in both cases I’m confident in that they will be checking for a certain accuracy. The iNat staff is very much connected with the naturalist users and are really motivated to make iNat better (just look through the forum).

On the other hand, considering deleting your iNat account just because they mention generative AI seems like being caught in the AI hype train as well, but just on the other side of it. Not all generative AI has to be bad, as long as it is used as a specific tool for a specific problem and in consideration of its limitations.

From Wikipedia on dopamine:

The brain includes several distinct dopamine pathways, one of which plays a major role in the motivational component of reward-motivated behavior.

So it is a neurotransmitter but has many different functions as such. But also:

Outside the central nervous system, dopamine functions primarily as a local paracrine messenger. In blood vessels, it inhibits norepinephrine release and acts as a vasodilator; in the kidneys, it increases sodium excretion and urine output; in the pancreas, it reduces insulin production; in the digestive system, it reduces gastrointestinal motility and protects intestinal mucosa; and in the immune system, it reduces the activity of lymphocytes. With the exception of the blood vessels, dopamine in each of these peripheral systems is synthesized locally and exerts its effects near the cells that release it.

So dopamine is important for all kinds of cells to function correctly. So just chugging a bunch of dopamine would do all kinds of stuff to your body…

Oh, ist er nicht mal das? Ich dachte vielleicht wäre das das klassische Beispiel von einer marginalisierten Person, die sich an die Dominanzgesellschaft anbiedert, indem sie die eigene Diskriminierung leugnet. Aber das ist dann ja plump einfach nur ein Mensch, der wirklich keine Ahnung vom Thema hat und nicht in dem Posten sein sollte.

Yeah, seems like you’re right about kurz. It’s mostly just walnuts although you can find recipes where they say nueces and use pecans. Almendras seem to be classified as a separate thing from nuts, interesting. Wasn’t aware of that before! I’d just use the term “nuez” like I would in German maybe that’s why I never noticed :D