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happy neil banging out the tunes day!

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remembering that octopus brains are donut shaped cause their esophagus goes thru the middle of their head and sometimes they die from brain damage from meal too big, and saying a long prayer before bed every night that if something like that happens to me i will be able to handle it gracefully

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The Grim Reaper assigned to krill.

He's a very busy guy.

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Trump is all like "Australians sell their beef to us, but they won't buy any of ours 😡"

Which.... yeah? Of course???? Why would we import external beef from so far away when we produce more than enough to meet our own needs??

Not to mention that USA still has mad cow disease, but Australia doesn't -- AND America has increasingly lax commercial-level health and safety standards, meaning the risk of pathogens like MCD/BSE spreading through the US are significantly increased, and we don't have it here in Australia, so of course we don't want to import beef from a country that could conceivably spread the disease to us???

But even aside from that. There are not that many Australians. But there are a lot of Americans. AND Australians eat an average of 23.4 kilos of beef per year but we produce 2.2 million tonnes. We produce WAY more beef than our population eats. So of course we don't import much????? And of COURSE it's not from America, which is both significantly further away than our current importers (primarily New Zealand and Japan), AND which has significantly lower health and safety regulations than we do????

Meanwhile, Americans average aprox 37 kilos of beef per person per year, but produces around 12.4 million tonnes. USAs population is 12 times larger than ours but only produces 5 times more beef than we do, AND consumes more per capita than we do. Of course USA imports large quantities of beef. Because their domestic production doesn't meet their domestic demand. Meanwhile Australia's production vastly outweighs our domestic demand, so of course we don't import American beef?????

Thats...... that's how imports and exports are supposed to work???? You export excess of what you have to someone who has less of it, and in turn, they export to you the produce/products that YOU don't have. This is fucking basic??????????

"Waahhh, Australia won't import American beef 😭😡" yeah???? Of course we don't????????

PLUS!!!!! Overall, Australia imports 34 billion dollars worth of stuff from America per year. Meanwhile America only imports $16 billion from us.

Putting tariffs on a country that imports more from you than they export to you is uhhhhhhhhh, FUCKIN' STUPID. If america tariff everything we send to them it's on all of $16b worth of stuff. If we tariff everything of theirs then we'll be slapping taxes on more than double what they can tax us.

Trump is such a fucking moron.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium plays FathomVerse 2.0 with MBARI's FathomVerse team!

We’re thrilled to welcome the @mbari-blog FathomVerse team back to the Aquarium for our next gaming livestream!

Join us live on YouTube and Twitch on April 10 at 3:30 p.m. PT with members of the MBARI FathomVerse team to play and discuss version 2.0 of this innovative mobile game that combines cozy gaming and deep-sea science. FathomVerse players participate in community science by training artificial intelligence that experts can use to identify ocean animals as they explore.

Based on feedback from the dedicated FathomVerse community, FathomVerse 2.0 introduces exciting features, including:

🎮 Brand-new mini-games

🏆Badges and quests

⚡Smoother gameplay

📲 Ready to get started? Download FathomVerse:

App Store

Google Play Store

FathomVerse website

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© plutoxoxi via x/twitter

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arguably one of the funnier ways to ask for help IDing a bird

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Strawberry Squid (Histioteuthis heteropsis), family Histioteuthidae, found in the deep zones of the Pacific Ocean

photographs via: NOAA Fisheries & MBARI

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Fished shaped cosmetics container, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, circa 1500-1292 BC

from The Egyptian Museum, Cairo

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My personal brand of humor is "horrible, useless advice delivered in an authoritative way" and this is the result of it

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He is indeed a guy

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david bowie & cher photographed by steve schapiro, november 8th, 1975

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We had to do it 😁⁠

As we filmed this deep-sea octopus, Graneledone, gracefully walking along the seafloor over 1,500 meters (4,900 feet) beneath the waves, a rattail fish came in to hog the shot. Rattails, also known as grenadiers, are often attracted to the lights on our remotely operated vehicle (ROV). Rattails are very curious and will come to investigate any disturbance on or around the seafloor. Presumably, this helps them find food in the darkness of the deep sea.

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Horus falcon inlay, made in Egypt in the 4th century (source).