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  • meowMix2525@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzAnt smell
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    1 month ago

    I’ve mostly gotten over my more intense childhood arachnophobia but the big ones and up close pictures still freak me out and I still smash em or vacuum them up when they’re in my home regardless of size so they don’t end up in my mouth when I’m asleep (that stat about eating so many spiders in a year really messed with me as a kid)


  • Originally, it was being a child and not having any money of my own, and my mom getting out her wallet to enter card information on a website she had no previous knowledge of, for something she would never use personally, was a whole… thing that I can probably count on my hands the number of times it actually happened. So I stopped even asking and figured it out myself.

    Edit: also, we had netflix but sometimes the shows I wanted to keep up with were still airing and I couldn’t wait.

    Now, I just don’t think any company that would take my money in exchange for, generally temporary, access to media/software really deserves or needs my money all that much, and especially not more than I do. I also strongly resent that there is not a public and legal domain for things that are older than like 5 or 10 years and not actively being worked on.






  • meowMix2525@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzBiology OP
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    4 months ago

    Right. The cells are dividing in half, which would be represented in math form by 1/0.5 = 2. Dividing by one half is the same thing as multiplying by 2, and division in general is really just a visually simplified way to multiply by a fraction of 1.

    Any time you divide by some fraction of 1, you will necessarily end up with a larger number because you’re doubling that division which reverses it back into multiplication, much in the same way as a negative x negative = positive. If that makes sense.

    A mathematician would not be bothered by this. A high schooler taking algebra I might be though, if you phrased it the same way this post did.