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i think the internet should transition from being so usa-centric to being brazil-centric. not cos i have any personal connection or bias towards brazil, i just think if anyone could possibly usurp america’s cultural dominance online it’d be them

comfymoth

“man i just woke up where are all these notifs coming fro—“

thatweirdnoise

#come to brazil? no - become brazil

brightstrangeworld

at least he died doing what he loved... letting people die by gun violence.

voltaspistol

#no this is it exactly

what-even-is-thiss

Do you have to wash your rice or not?

If you want to get rid of the starchy texture and/or you live in a country where rice isn’t always clean: yes.

If you want extra starchiness or stickiness and/or you care about keeping the nutritional powder in there: no.

If you are making a risotto or a paella: no.

If you are boiling your rice in a lot of water and then draining it like spaghetti to reduce the risk of arsenic exposure: no.

what-even-is-thiss

Some sources of rice have trace amounts of arsenic in the soil, some don’t. If you’re paranoid about it or you eat a lot of rice every day you can do research about the source of your rice. If the area where your rice is grown has arsenic in the soil you can get rid of most of it by cooking the rice like pasta.

satancheeto

Wait, washing it gets rid of some of the nutrients?

what-even-is-thiss

A lot of commercially sold grains are fortified with nutrients to keep the population from getting 18th century sounding diseases like rickets and scurvy.

The way they fortify white rice in most places is by dusting it with a nutrient powder. If you wash the rice you wash off this nutrient powder. Which is fine if you get enough vitamins from other sources but if you get most of your carbs from rice and rarely eat fruits or vegetables it could become a problem.

what-even-is-thiss

Everyone cooks rice slightly differently and if you don’t cook it the exact same way that they do people will threaten to murder your mother. Unluckily for them though, my mother is already dead so I can speak plain truth to the masses without fear.

#ohhhh this explains a lot #also: to prevent stickiness in fortified white rice that doesnt get washed you toast it in a little oil (like olive oil) before adding wate

our-queer-experience

helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!

the-gummy-worms-have-me

I think I found the article!

The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence

Read it if you have the time, it's very interesting.

mikkeneko

Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.

It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:

Given the fitness world's persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries. Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat's energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males. Estrogen's ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body's response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn't receive estrogen supplements.

The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that "Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes," and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.

aethersea

Anthropologists also look at damage on our ancestors' skeletons for clues to their behavior. Neandertals are the best-studied extinct members of the human family because we have a rich fossil record of their remains. Neandertal females and males do not differ in their trauma patterns, nor do they exhibit sex differences in pathology from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same patterns of wear and tear. This finding suggests that they were doing the same things, from ambush-hunting large game animals to processing hides for leather. Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.

I also thought this part was cool :)

genderqueerdykes

PLEASE read this article, this information is incredible for everyone looking to unlearn bioessentialism

anti-terf-posts

official anti terf post

#save

hollowboobtheory

that's what curly hair looks like dry brushed. she has obviously already brushed her hair. that is a style that is well known to require brushing. understandable mistake if it's your first time seeing hair tho

thats natasha lyonne

#lots of pictures of me as a kid where my hair looks like this #but not orange

squaresaw

So last month I got hit by a car and died right. Which I didn't initially realize until I watched some guy haul my body into his pickup and drive off. Which, being that it's deep in rural Michigan, I assume means my body will make some venison jerky and maybe some wall decoration, and I'll be resigned to being one of hundreds of deer ghosts floating around Saginaw, which is w/e. But then I find out the guy works at a taxidermy shop or something, and he's actually pretty good at stuffing and mounting deer carcasses, which I come to find out when I find myself face to face with my old body in the shop window. So naturally, I figure since ghosts need to possess something to interact with the living world and etc etc etc the most logical thing to do is to possess my own body, since it's basically a statue of myself. And a little surprisingly, it actually fits like a glove. Like, since it's my body, it feels like stepping right back into place. So I get out of town and back to my herd, eventually. And that's where the trouble starts coming into it, because after I get settled again, I don't know how to explain to everyone else what feels so weird. Like since I can move my body and do everything I used to do, it's functionally the same, like nothing happened. Or it SHOULD be, so I don't know how to explain how it's NOT. But it's just hard to explain it to someone who's never been hit by a truck I guess

gallusrostromegalus

Sure we all know lots of animals, but there's absolute shitloads of animals and a lot of them have weird fucking names. NOTE: there are seve

I made a quiz about some of my favorite animals :)

#55% i had some lucky guesses

phillip-bankss

I'm sorry your parents named you Philip ☹ I could name you something better

sweatermuppet

cheddar-baby

steveyockey

I think conclave (2024) fans should actually have tag privileges idk you could try “#real conclave” or maybe like “#conclave (nonfiction)” but the pope yaoi stays in #conclave

alex51324

This post is how I found out the pope died.

so-i-did-this-thing

Hi there. I'm trans, which probably isn't a surprise to you, and also a minor living in Florida, which might be more surprising to hear idk. I know life sucks and the government is horrible and I'm so scared, I very much understand the severity of everything.

But.... is it bad that I love it here anyways? I love the scrub pines and the way the cicadas sing in the summer and being able to watch the sun rise over the Atlantic and set over the Gulf in the same day. I love seeing manatees at the springs and checking out sinkholes and being able to say that I basically have the themeparks in my backyard even if we almost never actually go there. I love the Florida Caverns and the Everglades and being able to think "I want to go to the beach" and then just do that a few days later.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about it. It's scary. It's dangerous. Sometimes I feel the ache for culture and belonging so bad it hurts. My government literally wants me not to exist. But at the same time.... it's home. Despite everything, it's my home, and I love it here. I don't really want to leave it, even though that's what everyone ever tells me I need to do.

.....Is that bad?

I was born in Florida and lived there for 46 years before moving to New England almost 2 years ago. And despite being a bit of a polar bear in my heart, I absolutely do ache for the wildness I had to leave behind. The trees here are too quiet, the rivers are the wrong color, and I miss spotting gators smiling at me.

Never feel bad for loving the land and her people. Plenty of folks are choosing to stay behind and fight -- it's an honorable cause and locals need protecting and a new generation to pick up the reigns.

And likewise, try not to feel bad if you have to leave. If that is ever the case, try to enjoy as much of the state as you can before you go and see how you can support her from afar.

Is what you're feeling bad? No. It shows that you care and feel like you belong, despite the government trying to make you feel otherwise. No one should be so driven from their home.

nerunodaisuki

『Esoragoto』 English translation version

This cartoon is what I drew in 2013.

English translation is Laika (http://laikagohome.tumblr.com/) me be done.

I am grateful furiously to Laika.

Laika’s, Thank you very much.

エソラゴト　英訳バージョン

この漫画は私が2013年に描いたものです。

英訳はLaika（http://laikagohome.tumblr.com/）さんがおこなってくれました。

Laikaさんに猛烈に感謝しています。

Laikaさん、本当にありがとうございます。

my homepage

http://nerunodaisuki.petit.cc/

#comic

mleprae

Circle prayer for biologists

🕯🕯May god grant you strenght and patience to deal with people parroting "they brought back direwolves" for the rest of your lives🕯🕯 amen

mleprae

For my non-biology people

-its debated if the direwolf is even a wolf to begin with - they used grey wolves, which are the furthest relatives of the direwolves -they commented on 'phenotypics should be apart of philogenetics/taxonomy. i CANNOT stress this enough. categorizing an organism after its LOOKS is how we got into the absolutely ungodly mess that past biologists left us to organize. can you try doing that to PLANTS?

-they altered 20 genes of an animal that has around 2,477,000,000, so they edited 0.00008% of a grey wolf and they're calling it direwolf

-notice that every single place that this has been parroted on. why is it everywhere BUT the reputable science magazines? like nature or science? yeah.

-im not the "humans shouldnt be playing god" crowd, but ok yes. hypothetically speaking, they did bring back direwolves, 100%...... what for??? because it's cool? what ecological niches are these things going to fill? i know these are just wolves that are going to be kept for... god knows what but. genuinely. if we are serious in bringing extinct animals, we need to think what in gods name we are going to do with them after. none of todays ecosystems even come close to be what they were used to. so in terms of enrichement, temperature, season, prey, ecological role, territory, interactions with other species, what could we even do here?