InevitableSwing

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The beginning of the article

Who knew a dragon’s tongue could be so long?

Astronomers announced last week that they had discovered a black hole spitting energy across 23 million light-years of intergalactic space. Two jets, shooting in opposite directions, compose the biggest lightning bolt ever seen in the sky — about 140 times as long as our own Milky Way galaxy is wide, and more than 10 times the distance from Earth to Andromeda, the nearest large spiral galaxy.

Follow-up observations with optical telescopes traced the eruption to a galaxy 7.5 billion light-years away that existed when the universe was less than half its current age of 14 billion years. At the heart of that galaxy was a black hole spewing energy equivalent to the output of more than a trillion stars.

“The Milky Way would be a little dot in these two giant eruptions,” said Martijn Oei, a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Oei led the team that made the discovery, which was reported in Nature on Sept. 18 and announced on the journal’s cover with an illustration reminiscent of a “Star Wars” poster. The astronomers have named the black hole Porphyrion, after a giant in Greek mythology — a son of Gaia — who fought the gods and lost.

The discovery raises new questions of how such black holes could affect the evolution and structure of the universe.

Wikipedia: Porphyrion (radio galaxy)

 

While biologists usually describe octopuses as solitary, the cephalopods have shown in numerous ways that they pay close attention to the creatures around them, said Alexandra Schnell, a comparative psychologist affiliated with the University of Cambridge and a peer reviewer of the new paper.

These comments made me laugh.

Dr. Sampaio compared the octopus’s role in these groups to that of a chief executive, while the fish act more like a company’s research and development team.

“You can be a leader by pushing forward and expanding boundaries and taking the group to new places,” he said. “Or you can be the leader in terms of being the decider.” The octopus lets other animals study the marketplace and then chooses the company’s direction.

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However, Dr. Papadopoulou said, “I personally don’t like the use of the word ‘leadership’ when we talk about animals.” The word might make us imagine a boss making thoughtful decisions for everyone else, she said, but the movements of an animal group can emerge because everyone is following simple rules.

Dr. Papadopoulou said the octopus was more like an online influencer than a corporate executive.

 

What's a simple cooking sauce that you like and how do you make it?

By "cooking sauce" I mean something like tikka masala not BBQ sauce. I'm trying yet again to get myself to make sauces instead of buying them.

 

The meat of the article is after

The research that’s raising eyebrows comes from Japan, Taiwan and Australia.

 

There are also Coke Oreos.

 

In a study published on Monday in the journal Current Biology, scientists filmed juvenile Japanese eels staging Houdiniesque feats of escape from inside a predatory fish. After being swallowed and deposited into the fish’s stomach, the young eels swam up the hunter’s esophagus and escaped through an opening in its gills, much to the fish’s displeasure.

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[They] escape by wriggling their way, tail first, out of the digestive tract, up the esophagus and out the gills.

https://archive.ph/VqezR

The NYT uses SEO garbage in the title...

The Terrifying Way That Eels Escape a Hungry Fish’s Stomach

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

He's a lawyer too so I assume he'd die on the hill of the phrasing "[nobody] selects candidates by hand". People vote so blah blah blah.

Also - Bluesky is hilarious right now. The libs are basically smugly saying one of the following or even somehow both at the same time.

  • Nobody can be certain about anything.

  • Congress is back in session. AOC endorsed Biden plus any and all efforts to remove Biden are now dead. Get over it convention chaos bros - he's the nominee.

 

I can't be certain Biden's going to have more "bad days" but I'm damn close to certain. Does that count?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow. I never got a reply that fantastic. The best I ever got was a redditor who said something like "I work on The Hill and I don't know any congresspeople who act like you are implying." I tried to get them to keep talking but they effectively stopped with that comment.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

[Edit - My first joke was nonsense! Trump isn't president now! It made perfect sense in my head though. Haha.]

Fixed joke

He says Junior is VP. Trump wins. Trump gets inaugurated. That night Junior cries because Trump uses his "official act" powers to immediately put in Barron as his replacement.

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Sure he could be. Trump comes out to the media and says "Barron's not 35. But it doesn't matter. I said to myself..." He points to his own head "Self - the VP age is whatever Trump wants it to be. So - official act. Done. Barron VP."

"President Trump - what happens if the Supreme Court disagrees."

"Disagrees? Bad justices are not loyal so they are done. I get new justices to replace them."

"Done? What does 'done' mean?"

"Things end. People die. It's sad but it happens. Can be quick."

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Jim Caviezel

After Trump introduces him he says...

"Ego sum Jim Caviezel - Trump scriptor VP colligunt et Iesus Christus Dominus meus et Salva—."

Trump is very angry. "Jim! People like your faith stuff. But nobody understands Latin. Do it in English like I told you to."

"I am Jim Caviezel - Trump's VP pick and Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior..."

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Which one? His LARGE SON or one of the two older duds?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I saw a Bluesky post that said Americans think a small group of people choose national candidates. It was by a clever liberal so at first I thought he was being snarky and making fun of his own followers. But when he replied in the comments I realized his post wasn't ironic. It was 100% unironic. He actually has American civil religion brain.

I've seen his posts for years and it makes me laugh that it was only that day that I realized he's a shitlib. I've never seen him say anything about "The West Wing" - but I decided right then he's surely a fan boy.

This Biden situation really has brought out the shitlibs would can't resist using social media to lecture people on how things actually work and/or need to work.

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Ninja edit

a big takeaway from all of the Biden drama is that huge swathes of the public — including reasonably engaged people — think that political parties are a small cabal of elites who select candidates by hand

https://subium.com/profile/notalawyer.bsky.social/post/3kwj3o3rbhl2s

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I saw a post where a guy said he played Social Distortion's "Ball and Chain" on his brand new electric guitar. I haven't played guitar in more than a year. I got disgusted with my lack of musical ability so I just stopped. I couldn't remember that song. I almost started laughing when I listened to it. It's about the easiest song possible - 3 chords in a super easy strum pattern. That's it.

My goal by Monday is to pick up my guitar and play those chords until I get them right. I can even strum mindlessly as I watch speed chess online. Repetition and not dwelling on or - cough - fretting about stuff is key. Why by Monday and not - say - tonight? Um... Cat videos to watch? But in in all seriousness - I will do it. Just not right now.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The vid doesn't play for me.

The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LZXheHddI

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

I remember what happens to that guy. What if [redacted]

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He is - strangely - quite optimistic about our ability to curb it, and backs up everything he says with evidence.

That's one of the strangest sentences I've ever heard from a rational Hexbear. I'm not against contrarianism. But you're going to have to explain yourself. I have a couple questions.

  • Strangely? C'mon. This isn't rocket science. He's an obnoxious turd who surely wants some sugar-daddy billionaire to fund him the rest of his life. And being quite optimistic and dismissive douchebag is a possible ticket to Cash City.

  • Evidence? What is this "evidence"? I really want to know.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm awful but why does everybody hate me?!?

Gee, let's go through the looking glass and try to solve this cryptic mystery...

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If you're doing a bit I have admit - whoosh - it went straight over my head.

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