also i ate half a sheet tray of lasagna today but i also hadnt had an actual meal in days due to stress and shock so i was actually really justified in garfing it
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Being poor as fuck makes recovery really difficult. We've been skipping weeks buying groceries, and you can't get very far with $300 anymore. This shit sucks man.
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You requested de-extinction asks: please elaborate re Baijis / the need to fix the problems that killed them?
hiii yeah thanks! so as i see it the main goal of de-extinction shouldn’t be to practice gene editing or to cosmically right the past wrongs of humanity or whatever, it should be conservation which helps existing ecosystems.
this is species reintroduction rather than de-extinction, but the yellowstone wolves are a good classic example of what i mean. there were no wolves in yellowstone park then after a lot of legal back-and-forth a bunch of wolves were brought down from canada and released in the park. and it was great, the wolves lowered the elk population, which increased the aspen tree population, which changed the character of rivers and prevented erosion because the banks were held together better by the aspen tree roots. so Everything got better bc of the wolves. i think that’s like an ideal outcome for when de-extinct species are reintroduced. the wooly mammoth is one that seems like it might do that in siberia.
so for a successful de-extinction, the ecosystem has to be able to be improved by the animal. if yellowstone was all highways and gas stations there would be a much lesser impact in reintroducing wolves because the trees wouldn’t be able to come back in the same way. or if the reintroduced wolves were unable to hunt because of noise interfering with their ability to sense elk.
the baiji was a chinese freshwater river dolphin in the yangtze river. the river has a lot of fishing with nets, industrial pollution, and noise pollution, it's very busy. the baiji were really sensitive to noise and have bad eyesight, mostly relying on hearing, so the boats especially were harmful and confusing for them. this river is continues to be really commercial, so i imagine if the baiji were put back they wouldn’t be able to have any ecosystem effects or really maintain their own population, they’d just continue to be harmed by the industry rather than doing their normal habits that might benefit the ecosystem.
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If it's not too late; top 5 favourite foods?
It is not too late at all!!
Chocolate. Just. I love it. Dark chocolate if we're getting specific
Scones!! I love them
Salt & vinegar crisps
Pizza (but like a very specific pizza)
Ham baguettes (with lettuce ideally)
Put “top 5” anything in my inbox and I'll answer
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