#Cyprinodontes

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Crustacean-on-main: I don't want the state to make my life harder while it's trying to make things 'fair'.

cyprinodont: Yes, but have you considered: mUh rOaDs?

(Cyp just doubled down on being wrong and looking for “gotchas” against an entirely imaginary version of COM, in case you were wondering.)

I like how the original meme deliberately leaves out the means of achieving “fairness��, or even what definition of “fairness” is in play.

Especially when I know leftists like gtech openly endorse screwing other people over in the name of the Greater Good. And giving the state more power.*

Not to mention “this genocidal, racist, mass-murdering fictional character is actually the good guy”.

*Not the first time I’ve seen someone be anti-cop, but also pro-gun control. I wonder who they expect gun control to be enforced by?

@ancappunk​

[tanadrin]

cyprinodont replied to your post: Although I agree with the majority decision, I...

Wait why is not the symmetrical case “man fired for homosexual desires/ lifestyle” vs “woman fired for homosexual desires/ lifestyle”??? Legit question.                             Is sexual orientation itself a protected class in title VII or is this just because they have to backdoor it because only sex is?

Gorsuch goes into it in his opinion (which is very accessible, and worth a read for such an important case), but basically AFAICT it boils down to “sexual orientation doesn’t have to be a protected class, since it’s a secondary fact about someone determined by their sex. In order to determine someone’s sexual orientation (or whether they’re cis or trans) you have to know--and thus be illegally concerned with--their birth sex.” He gives the example of having a box on a job application form that says “black or Catholic”; and it being illegal to discriminate against people who check that box, even though technically you’re not discriminating on the basis of race (you don’t know their race! They could be white Catholics or black non-Catholics) or religion alone, race and religion are significant elements.

The jurisprudence around how relevant a criterion has to be to discrimination for it to be illegal discrimination is well-established, so all Gorsuch is doing is applying that jurisprudence consistently to the question of birth sex and its relationship to gender identity and sexual orientation. And because he is concerned with the law as written, and not legislative intent (which SCOTUS has previously held only matters when the law is ambiguous; it is not really, here), or with the possibility of unforseen consequences (which, as he points out, anybody passing a major piece of civil rights legislation would know there would be some unforseen consequences--as indeed there have been in the past, to little fanfare, like Title VII protecting men from sexual harassment or banning discrimination against mothers of small children), the opinion doesn’t change one way or another even if he were to preface the whole thing with “all trans is fake tumblr shit and all homosexuality is a deeply unnatural lifestyle choice.” It makes no difference! The law is the law--and, ironically, to try to exclude LGBT people from it would amount to a considerable amount of judicial activism! It’s really a wonderfully conservative piece of reasoning.

[stele3]

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@stele3 you had lots of options you were just selfish and jingoistic.

Good to know that you know more about my life and ability to escape a shitty financial and family situation than I did at the time. I was 17, I needed to get out, and no, I didn’t have a lot of options.

Like, it’s a known thing that when the US economy goes up, military recruitment goes down. There has been a lot of hand-wringing about how “free college for all” would deplete military ranks, because kids would no longer have to risk getting shot at in order to afford social advancement.

Politicians deliberately keep kids like me from having lots of options so that we have no choice but to join the military and fight the wars that make those same politicians rich. Meanwhile, veterans are drastically over-represented among the homeless. What does that tell you? Well, probably nothing because I don’t get the impression you care about anything that doesn’t confirm your pre-existing worldviews, but to anyone else reading this with a single iota of critical thinking: people who come back from war and wind up homeless were probably homeless or on the verge of homelessness before they went to war. That’s why racial minorities in America are over-represented in the military. Black women, for instance, are only 18.4% of the female population of the US, but represent a whopping 29.8% of the female recruits who join the military. You wanna tell me that Black women are more inclined to be selfish and jingoistic? Or maybe, just maybe, there’s an economic factor that leads disadvantaged people to join the military.

The military offers housing, healthcare, education, and food; for young people like myself with limited options, that seems like a good deal. The only price was our physical, mental, and spiritual health.

[shrimpapalooza]

cyprinodont replied to your post “I go on a planted aquarium forum and I keep seeing ppl say some...”

@itsdetachable nerites are a good option if youre worried about reproduction since they are obligate diadromous reprpducers, though they will lay sesame seed lookin eggs all over, they wont hatch. Also they eat more types of algae. My ramshorns can reproduce pretty quickly. But i dont think ive ever felt they were taking over or eating plants or anything, i find them very useful especially for keeping fry containers clean.

I might go the ramshorn route in this case. I like the look and size of the small nerites (I have a large one) but I didn’t have much luck in the way of acclimating the nerites I’d gotten before. It’s been years now but I only really got two to acclimate, and only one survived over a year. I’m sure I can find ramshorn snails from a decent breeder, and I know they come in neat colors. I got red/pink ones once for a betta tank but I’m pretty sure she ate them, because all I’d find were empty shells, and then I’d find her attacking the pond snails in her tank and trying to eat them....

[collapsedsquid]

cyprinodont: Massive history of pics of trump, not as many of Kamala?

Ahh yes, totally slipped my mind that's gotta be an issue.

A lot of the AI parody art people are making of Kamala doesn't really look like her, which stands out when they put it next to one of Trump which looks comparatively accurate, I'm not sure if this is because people making the pics are halfassing it or we're seeing the upshot of the racial bias in the model's source data.

[canmom]

cyprinodont replied to your video “antoine-roquentin: youtube recommendations made this song from 1985...”

I mean this kind of music was written specifically to be like... inoffensive and enjoyable by all. Its schmaltz, like a spielberg movie.

that’s tru... though why this specific song, why now? i guess it’s unanswerable... the nature of the song gave it (and many others) the potential to resurface like this, one of them was going to, but you can’t say which any more than you can say a bubble will definitely form here, and not there, when the pressure is low

[queenrecluse]

cyprinodont replied to your post “tuca and bertie didn’t do much for me but does it really get...”

I was tricked into thinking it would be gay

yeah, like, it’s literally just broad city if it was bojack, but not as good as either, which is saying something cause they suck. 

so it’s like. another cis het shit show. like, go watch fucking sex and the city or broad city or girls or w/e cis het girl making it in the city on her own show and make something new ppl. jfc 

[lesbianchemicalplant]

cyprinodont replied to your post “folly-of-alexandria: folly-of-alexandria: You know, it’s...”

@emi1966 you do realize that the way people "perceive" you directly translates to how they actually treat you?

O:

u could even say......it’s almost like......we live in........................a snozziety

[youzicha]

cyprinodont said: Vampire castle?

The extremely online right, riffing on the passage I quoted above, have taken to calling this phenomenon and its various penumbras and emanations “the Longhouse” (thus joining “the Cathedral” in the right-wing imaginary of evil architecture). 

I guess there's also the Ivory Tower, the Echo Chamber, the Opinion Corridor...

[patricide1885]

Yeah exactly, it’s such a fragile landmine that socialization itself has become a taboo topic, and while, sometimes it’s genuinely easier to black and white things like that when they’re weaponized against you (take the born this way narrative) it’s unfortunately way too big and important of a topic and now the only people examining it are the ones weaponizing it and that is… really bad. I desperately need to examine it for myself as a trans person and now I’m stuck doing it alone because people are literally incapable of nuance.

[baeddel]

cyprinodont replied to your post “guurx i would say like, stratum indicates a plane of division and...”

@guurx​ is a genius and extremely valid

100% true

[piteousgate]

cyprinodont replied to your post: some bloggers talk about Thor like others talk...

thor could kick ms-13’s ass

the LA Gangs could probably at least hurt him pretty bad first

[kremlin]

@cyprinodont i feel you -- after the circus effect wears down i just love watching, the, like, room full of completely serious professionals try to navigate around it. i'm also just a dumb guy and their antics never get old to me

i can barely sit through a 2h40m movie but i can watch 5 hours of senate investigation committee hearings or like, eight hours of raw trial footage of a guy trying to be his own lawyer without ceasing. that shit rules

[thoughtsofadame]

Choosing not to vote this election and trying to convince others not to vote because both parties are EVIL IMPERIALISTS is a death sentence to marginalized people. This is not an election where you can protest the whole system. Doing so will kill people. Doing so makes you a racist, ableist, Queerphobic, Misogynist. It doesn’t make you a rebel it makes you an accomplice to the evil imperialists you “hate” so much. 

[tanadrin]

cyprinodont replied to your post: cyprinodont replied to your post: ...

Actually I can say it’s not *that* true of fish. Fish hybridized pretty regularly in genera and even between closely-related genera but nothing like angiosperms. My favorite fish hybrid is the Amazon Molly.

From Wikipedia:

Reproduction is through gynogenesis, which is sperm-dependent parthenogenesis. This means that females must mate with a male of a closely related species but, the sperm only triggers reproduction and is not incorporated into the already diploid egg cells the mother is carrying (except in extraordinary circumstances). This results in clones of the mother being produced en masse. This characteristic has led to the Amazon molly becoming an all-female species. Other all-female species include the New Mexico Whiptail, desert grassland whiptail lizard, and Blue-spotted salamander.

There are four stages in the reproduction of the Amazon molly. In the first step there is a diploid cell that is activated by a sperm cell but does not incorporate the genetic makeup of the sperm. The second step shows the copying of the two single chromosomes to make two doubled chromosomes. In the third step the two chromosomes are being pulled apart to opposite sides of the cell. In the 4th and final step there are two daughter cells, each with two single chromosomes, an exact replica of the mother cell.

The Amazon molly reproduces through gynogenesis. This image shows that the genetic material of the male is not incorporated into the offspring of the female. And the daughter cells produced are copies of the mother cell.

In nature, the Amazon molly typically mates with a male from one of four different species, either P. latipinna, P. mexicana, P. latipunctata, or occasionally P. sphenops. One other male that could possibly exist in the Amazon molly's natural range that could induce parthenogenesis in Amazon molly females is the triploid Amazon molly males. These triploid males are very rare in nature and are not necessary in the reproduction of the species, which is why the species is considered to be all female. Since the male's sperm is not contributing to the genetic makeup of the offspring, it may seem non beneficial for males of closely related species to participate in mating with the Amazon molly. But, research shows that other female species, such as the Atlantic molly, are trend conscious and are more likely to mate with a male of their species if they see that male mate with an Amazon molly. Therefore, the Amazon molly can only live in habitats that are also occupied by a species of male that will reproduce with them.

Confession: when I played Mass Effect, I assumed the Asari were an eye-rollingly obvious attempt at fanservice, because having an all-female alien species that just had to mate with other aliens in order to reproduce seemed like a tissue-thin excuse for why, in an otherwise pretty well thought-out science fiction setting, there were blue-skinned space babes who could fall in love with you.

Turns out that wasn’t the (only) reason! It��s a real kind of reproduction that actually exists!

[patrickbaeddman]

cyprinodont replied to your photo: hey man sweet jacket wait where’s your FUCKING...

I like it better

i like it but this would be something u get AFTER u already have a normal jacket