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  • azi@mander.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzMakes perfect sense
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    21 days ago

    Uh yeah because it’s a movie. They couldn’t pass up on casting Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy as Bob and Emily Cratchet (what with Miss Piggy’s sheer talent and star power) which left them in a bit of a casting bind. Realistically they had to cast pigs and frogs as the Cratchet children instead of searching high and low for talented half-pig half-frog child actors. Even then they went out of their way in casting Kermit’s actual nephew Robin the Frog as Tiny Tim and the other child actors (Peter, Miranda, and Melinda) pretty closely resembled their ‘parents’.












  • azi@mander.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzdo what you love
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    5 months ago

    And it’s entirely the tech companies making their own bed and then laying in it. In the few jurisdictions where the engineering regulatory colleges won out in protecting their title, there’s a slough of highly qualified Professional Software Engineers who’ve graduated from accredited programs alongside the people who grad from more theory-based compsci programs





  • azi@mander.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzthe welsh are fish
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    5 months ago

    Broke: Whales are fish because they look like other fish

    Woke: Whales aren’t fish because they’re in the class Mammalia, not Pisces

    Bespoke: Whales are fish because any monophyletic group that encompasses all the fishes must also include the clade Tetrapoda

    Artichoke: Whales aren’t fish because fishes are a paraphyletic group that includes the entire clade Vertebrata at the exclusion of the clade Tetrapoda.

    Stick and Poke: Whales are fish because they’ve developed the same bodyplan and are in the same ecological niche as the pelagic fishes.


  • azi@mander.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzproject paperclip be like
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    5 months ago

    Osoviakhim was somewhat more ideologically consistent than Paperclip. The scientists weren’t invited to the USSR with promises of cushy jobs and immunity from prosecution: they were forced from their homes, loaded onto freight trains, and made to work. It was part of the wider program of the Allies using the forced labour of ethnic Germans as a means of war reparations.




  • azi@mander.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzDon't we all?
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    6 months ago

    Either the image is an accurate facsimile (DNA was wrong and the guy’s wearing a men’s size shirt (buttons are on his right side)) or the image was mirrored (DNA was correct and the guy’s wearing a women’s size shirt (buttons are on his left))