Apart from the cultivar part, I don’t think that’s true. Apparently even Aristotle has spoken about fig wasps (without really understanding what they are or do of course). So maybe there are some cultivars that are self a pollinating now, but it seems like all non-cultivated fig trees are dependent on this kind of pollination. And btw, there aren’t a “few” wild species, there are over 850 of them!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_coevolution_in_Ficus?wprov=sfla1

Yeah sure I’ll eat figs. You don’t eat the fig wasps as they have been eaten by the fig already. If I knew there was a fig wasp still inside, I wouldn’t eat it though.

Yes exactly. They are both dependent on each other in that way.

And to add on to that, figs are super important food trees in the tropics, because they are the only trees that produce fruits all year around. (Because they have to, otherwise the fig wasp population couldn’t sustain itself.) So many animal species are also dependent on the steady food source of fig trees (btw most look very different from the common fig tree, Ficus carica).

Oof, this whole email exchange reads super misogynistic, but this one here in particular! Poor Faith :(

I think what that means is that both AI and language learners often use more formal language. If you are learning a new language you usually start by visiting classes or other formal and structured resources. But native speakers don’t actually use that idealized form of language very much. I guess that the training set of AI was mostly texts written in more formal language and/or that there isn’t a strong enough consistent bias for most informal language.

Especially because most of the corn eaten in the rest of the Americas isn’t sweet at all. It’s more equivalent of rice, pasta, potatoes, etc…

Oooh, nice!!

Cool! And it mentions “Inside Nature’s Giants”!!

Most of Europe I’d say…

I feel like behaving like this is just kicking down. People doing scam calls are also just people and usually in a financially worse situation than who they are trying to call. Not even that, it is especially often people from the global south that we comparatively rich people from the global north exploit and gain our wealth from. And instead of trying to look at the big picture and seeing who the biggest scammer is (the capitalist system itself), most people just bully the ones that are worse off than them… I get that it feels way much more personal and tragic when a grandma loses all her savings to a small group of scammers. But the damages and losses done by large corporations (that also created the desperate circumstances and the motivation of the scammers in the first place) outweigh these scams billions of times. So please show some decency and treat them like normal people.

That’s even further off from comparing apples and oranges, you’re comparing monocots and dicots!

Ah yes, now I get it! Thanks :)

I feel like something similar has been going on a few years ago as well (or maybe it’s an old post?)

It is a valid term used by trans people to describe their own feelings (see the gender dysphoria bible for example). The other person must have gotten something mixed up…

Wow, I loved this! Thanks for sharing <3

Just use its Latin name, Solidago. How am I supposed to know what it is called in English when each other language also has its own name.

And yes, in Germany I do see it as an invasive pest. But at least it attracts a lot of pollinators. The invasive species of Erigeron are worse.

What’s genetic monoculture then? Wouldn’t that be identical to just monoculture? Or is it having the same crop, but different genetic variants on the same field for multiple years?

I’ve taken many pictures of copulating insects and I always feel weird doing that. But for identification purposes it’s great…

Interestingly, it is still very different. Men fantasizing about sex bots is objectifying female bodies and taking control over them. That’s why it is so creepy. Women searching for a romantic partner in chat bots is actually subjectifying an inanimate thing.

I’ve never understood why people buy clothing from expensive brands (except for when there is a real expectation of quality/durability)

Like, I understand it if the choice were only between original and poor-quality rip-off. But usually you can just go with something else that isn’t by an expensive brand and isn’t a rip-off…