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just-shower-thoughts

Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

blogtitletaken

I know you’re being facetious, but this is an actual issue with morphology-based phylogeny.

castiel--for--king

*leans over and whispers to person beside me* what are they talking about

sonneillonv-deactivated20220218

*leans over and whispers back* Human ability to quantify and categorize natural phenomena is sketchy at best and wildly misleading at worst

nonlinear-nonsubjective

consider the coconut

bemusedlybespectacled

this reminds me of that time Plato defined humans as “featherless bipeds” and Diogenes ran in with a plucked chicken screaming “BEHOLD A MAN!”

kascaban

i love how you say “it reminds me of that time” like you were there.

heartgemsona

listen if an immortal feels brave and supported enough to come out we should respect them

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

This post is a journey

virtuous-thing

1 Reblog = 1 Respect

dovewithscales

I maintain that humans started attempting classify animals, and some god or another made the platypus, and is still laughing.

eldbitch-horror

Zeus: *hits joint* okay so like. It’s gonna have a duck bill right. But an otter body okay? And then a beaver tail. It’s a mammal. But. It lays eggs!

Hades: wait wait dude. Give it. Give it poison. Make it poisonous

dovewithscales

Athena: You mean venomous, and make sure the eggs have both reptile and bird traits. Hermes: *takes the joint* Give it extra senses. Poseidon: It should be aquatic.

hyratel

I MEAN where’s the lie

dovewithscales

Demeter: … And where exactly do you expect me to put this? Everyone: Australia.

pochowek

confused calvinist, 6 months after conversion: so when will my plush tiger start talking

shelomit

Sometimes, when I’m getting really frustrated with my religious history studies, I think about this post.

tearlessrain

alpha bros will always pick lions and wolves to superimpose their "I'm so badass I need no one" memes on as if those aren't the two animals most famous for having a buddy system and excellent group cooperation.

tearlessrain

biologically accurate lion memes should be a thing I think

tendergothic

goodflagshadows-deactivated2023

huffylemon

micro-usb-deactivated20230625

haloinfinite-archive

help I’m dying

monody-monody

When you don’t want to code predictive aiming so you just make the projectile homing instead.

an-apocalypse-of-magpies

The story of this is fascinating and hilarious.

So this is, obviously, Hitman. And in Hitman you can pick up objects and throw them to cause a noise distraction. But you can also throw them at a person to sneakily take them out, particularly if the object is bladed/sharp or heavy. Now, the thrown weapon is programmed to home in on the target, but it normally moves so fast and the target so slowly that it makes no difference. Enter the briefcase. Intended for discreetly carrying weapons, but because of the briefcase’s size and bulk, it can be thrown, it has a much slower flight speed than, say, a knife or a screwdriver. But this meant that people noticed the trick, because they finally found a weapon that flies slowly enough to turn in mid-air. The devs patched this out of later games, the fans revolted - they wanted the janky homing briefcase.

Now we come to Hitman 2 (2019). The devs, as a joke, added a special variant of the briefcase to the game. So now, not only was there the ordinary briefcase, but a special version of the briefcase with minimum flight speed and perfect homing. Combine that with the one point in the game where a target can out-manoeuvre the inexorable march of the slow, flying suitcase, and you get one of the funniest gifs in modern gaming

catcrumb

ur-daily-inspiration

papayajuan2019

love the way we finish each others' sentences. it's like we're soulmates or the beastie boys

vimbry-moved

bears

blueiscoool

Italy Hails ‘Exceptional’ Discovery of Ancient Bronze Statues in Tuscany

Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered more than two dozen beautifully preserved bronze statues dating back to ancient Roman times in thermal baths in Tuscany, in what experts are hailing as a sensational find.

The statues were discovered in San Casciano dei Bagni, a hilltop town in the Siena province, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) north of Rome, where archaeologists have been exploring the muddy ruins of an ancient bathhouse since 2019.

“It is a very significant, exceptional finding,” Jacopo Tabolli, an assistant professor from the University for Foreigners in Siena who coordinates the dig, said on Tuesday.

Massimo Osanna, a top culture ministry official, called it one of the most remarkable discoveries “in the history of the ancient Mediterranean” and the most important since the Riace Bronzes, a giant pair of ancient Greek warriors, were pulled from the sea off the toe of Italy in 1972.

Tabolli said the statues, depicting Hygieia, Apollo and other Greco-Roman divinities, used to adorn a sanctuary before they were immersed in thermal waters, in a sort of ritual, “probably around the 1st century AD”.

“You give to the water because you hope that the water gives something back to you,” he said of the ritual.

TIME OF CONFLICT

Most of the statues date to between the 2nd century BC and the 1st century AD, a period of “great transformation in ancient Tuscany” as it switched from Etruscan to Roman rule, the Culture Ministry said in a statement.

It was an “era of great conflicts” and “cultural osmosis”, in which the Great Bath sanctuary of San Casciano represented a “unique multicultural and multilingual haven of peace, surrounded by political instability and war,” the ministry said.

The statues were covered by almost 6,000 bronze, silver and gold coins, and San Casciano’s hot muddy waters helped to preserve them “almost like as on the day they were immersed,” Tabolli said.

The archaeologist said his team had recovered 24 large statues, plus several smaller statuettes, and noted that it was unusual for them to be made out of bronze, rather than terracotta.

Tabolli said this suggested they came from what he called an elite settlement, where archaeologists also found “wonderful inscriptions in Etruscan and Latin”, mentioning the names of powerful local families, the ministry statement added.

According to Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano, the “exceptional discovery … confirms once again that Italy is a country of immense and unique treasures”.

The ministry said the statues have been taken to a restoration laboratory in nearby Grosseto, but will eventually be put on display in a new museum in San Casciano.