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@Maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
Then how do you know it's a deuterostome?
Good question. Given that "[t]he defining characteristic of the deuterostome is the fact that the blastopore (the opening at the bottom of the forming gastrula) becomes the anus," the absence of an evident anus would seem to make it not a deuterostome. If the defining characteristic of
class
is that something becomes apart
, that implies that having apart
is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition of being a member ofclass
.Or maybe the writer just got it wrong. (A journalist who doesn't understand science writing about science? Impossible!!!) Perhaps the claim is really that this is the ancestor of the deuterostomes, but not itself a deuterostome. However, I don't care enough to track down any further information that might be publicly available.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Given that "[t]he defining characteristic of the deuterostome is the fact that the blastopore (the opening at the bottom of the forming gastrula) becomes the anus," the absence of an evident anus would seem to make it not a deuterostome.
Seeing how the orifice would appear to perform both functions, perhaps it's more that the animal doesn't have a mouth? Although I guess that puts it outside of the "cute prehistoric microbe" territory and into "living anus nightmare fuel" one, so maybe it wouldn't look too good in print.
Filed under: I have an anus and I must scream
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@Maciejasjmj I think the bumhole evolved before the stomach. I can't remember the organisms name but it started with Eu something.
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
@Maciejasjmj I think the bumhole evolved before the stomach. I can't remember the organisms name but it started with Eu something.
Eurotrash?
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@da-Doctah fuck knows.
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Wait a sec ... it sounded like "euuuuu-mum".
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@Maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
Yeah, that, among other things. Probably not an analogy you want to draw.
Unless you do. Look what "conservative street artist" Sabo has on his Facebook page. I don't think he'd just have come across that crossed hammers logo by coincidence.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
Please can the news stories be on the lighter side? Like this one:
Theresa May held Donald Trump's hand because he 'has a fear of steps'I think he should just man up and stop being such a phobic fucking
Maybe he was still hoping to have Teresa May hold some body part of his though? The White House sure sounded like it.
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@Maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
You know, slugs are there to make URLs legible...
It is legible. To Google that is, and SEO is the whole point of it, that's why they leave out stopwords.
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
@Maciejasjmj I think the bumhole evolved before the stomach. I can't remember the organisms name but it started with Eu something.
Are you thinking of eukaryotes? That's the highest-level classification for organisms that have cells containing a nucleus. (Prokaryotes are cells without a nucleus.)
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
@Maciejasjmj I think the bumhole evolved before the stomach. I can't remember the organisms name but it started with Eu something.
Are you thinking of eukaryotes?
Surely he meant Judas Eukaryot. That asshole.
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@Maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
@Jarry said in In other news today...:
Two-friends-living-Newcastle-Birmingham-met-Malaga-cheaper-fly-SPAIN-getting-train-other
You know, slugs are there to make URLs legible...
I like to read slugs in my head as if someone's yelling them at me in panic.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Judas Eukaryot
ITYM Judas Iscariot
ITYM Judas
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Judas Eukaryot
ITYM Judas Iscariot
ITYM Judas
???
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@Onyx the one known follower of the Church of Judas
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@Jaloopa Better than being a seventh day advent hopist, that's for sure.
Filed under: Asbestos underpants
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@Fox said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Unlikely, @Zecc managed to post.
I accidentally posted something while I was considering if it was worth posting it (it wasn't).
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Judas Eukaryot
ITYM Judas Iscariot
The correct spelling is Judas Escargot.
And we're back to slugs.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
The correct spelling is Judas Escargot.
And his speciality is garlic butter.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
The correct spelling is Judas Escargot.
And his speciality is garlic butter.
Eye protest! Oui 'ar not traitors, just cowards!
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@remi
You've already got one?
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@remi
You've already got one?I'm no good in mock-French... it's already hard enough to not speak too much like that in Real Life, so don't ask me to be able to imagine what it sounds like to you.
Unless I'm ing and you're talking about traitors? We do have our fair share, but no more than anyone else, I think?
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Unless I'm ing
Yes
@remi said in In other news today...:
and you're talking about traitors
No
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The NHS report appeared to blame IT outsourcing outfit Accenture for not having failsafes in place that would have prevented the cockup
Figures.
Filed under: Why am I on this mailing list? Please remove me from it
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Filed under: Why am I on this mailing list? Please remove me from it
Me too!
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
IT outsourcing outfit Accenture
Where did I see that name before ?
Oh, yeah, the only stock exchange platform based on Windows
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@TimeBandit Tsk tsk, the author of that article forgot how to write Micro$oft.
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@JBert I remember reading on Microsoft's website, in their "get the fact" series, how LSE choose Microsoft technology over Linux for reliability. After that incident, everything vanished.
Now, the only traces left are in the internet archive
If you prefer the words of Windows IT Pro
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A people's way of life, safeguarded for the future:
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@Dragoon notice how they went for space marines, rather than chaos marines, which wear fur as well:
Not even PETA fucks with chaos marines man.
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@Onyx
More likely, the Chaos Marine is such a rare (and expensive) miniature that the intern who wrote up the original demand has never seen or even dreamed of affording one. So he stuck with the Space Marine he knew.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
The researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus, which suggests that it consumed food and excreted from the same orifice.
Fun fact! It's common knowledge-- absolute common knowledge-- that Ctenophora (comb jellies) don't have a through-gut. Meaning, the food goes in one hole, gets processed, then is expelled back through the same hole.
That's because every observation made of comb jellies saw this. Food went into it's mouth, then after a while, food came out of it's mouth.
Until recently, when someone was observing some comb jellies, and feeding them glowing food. The jellies ate, waiting 2-3 hours-- then poop out a distinct anus. The video blew the minds of every jelly researcher.
Either no one had observed a jelly long enough and missed this-- or jellies kept in captivity were being fed too much or the wrong thing, and were vomiting undigested food (not pooping digested food).
So there you go.
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Onyx the one known follower of the Church of Judas
I used to be, but they sold my membership.
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@izzion More likely, the intern who wrote up the original demand had never heard of Warhammer 40,000 before Salon told xer it was full of deplorables and that was the first mini xe saw upon googling "space marine".
Oh, and in case you haven't noticed PETA and Chaos are on the same team
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@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
then poop out a distinct anus
Hopefully you meant "poop out of a distinct anus". Otherwise they really need to change their diet...
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
frances-wild-hamsters-being-turned-into-crazed-cannibals-by-diet-of-corn
Corn was how they found out that not all things with protein are complete proteins. There was an orphanage in the American South, and the director was saving money by skimping on meals. He found that corn was very cheap, and so fed the kids nothing but corn. Soon they developed low-protein-related deficiencies despite having enough protein.
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Google is blocking access to the entire NHS network, mistaking the amount of traffic it is currently receiving as a cyber attack.
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“We have all these traditional notions of a ladderlike view of evolution, and it keeps getting shaken,” says Kevin Kocot, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Does the ladder-of-evolution view still have traction anywhere outside the US South?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Google is blocking access to the entire NHS network, mistaking the amount of traffic it is currently receiving as a cyber attack.
Gee, must be all that personal, private patient data the NHS sold Google without permission from the patients...
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⇑ I'm surprised those URIs are turning into correct images considering they've got parentheses and colons on them ⇑
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5qpXO3isM
Looking forward to seeing a Chicken-on-Ice musical.
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@Zecc Guess that's it for humanity then. The ability to navigate over waist-high walls was one of the key advantages humans had over robots.
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And if you want proof of how fucked up the UK's rail network is:
Split tickets can save passengers money as separate fares for each leg of a journey - all on the same train - are sometimes cheaper than one ticket covering the entire trip.