Oh well I guess I’ll change somebody else’s life then, no worries

That’s absolutely true, although, if it was aussie slang you’d usually see a double consonant before the last A, ie.: “magga”. I wonder what could it be? Margarine?

I’m serious! But I’m glad I’ve influenced your worldview and ideals

Wait why is this season’s depression more remarkable than the other seasonal depressions? I mean I’ve been on a roll from season to season depression and can’t say there is a better or worse

Wait so is that what he’s saying? Omelette du fromage ? Look. I like scientists. I love cheese. And I am crazy about eggs. You tell me a scientist is whispering about eggs and cheese in my ear? I’m blushing to think about it

Yeah was gonna say this is probably better suited for the Power Rangers hands together meme. Plenty of subcultures that grind

Wtf is going on with these. The first one a couple days ago made no sense and fast forward to the present time… Wtf. I give up. What’s going on guys

Are you using softener in your wash? If not, then you should. I typically don’t like using softener but occasionally do if I know what I’m washing is going to turn out like cardboard

Wait what? Can you explain a bit more about this method? Do you chuck the wash straight into the freezer or do you let it drip dry for a while first? Does it work on wool? I’ve never lived in a place with frost or snow so this is news for me

Lol no but similar energy

Maybe you’re onto something, I don’t know. But I’ve surely heard of terrible things people with a tan can do, so I’m not judging.

Is this question aimed at people living in the states? I’ve never seen one either in public or in private in Australia

At first I thought you meant “go back in time 24hs” in which case my answer would have been “yes! And get my haircut elsewhere!!!” But seeing what you mean for real, and with no consequences, I’d go back in time to see extinct animals. Shame I can’t bring photos back with me

I’m not sure. Maybe, for a small minority of people, that’s the case. But for most… The reason they flocked there first, while there were plenty of fediverse options already, wasn’t lack of ads. It was the opposite, ads from a platform with ads that led most people to threads in the first place.

No, and that’s precisely the point I’m trying to make. That’s not what the quote means. The quote means “For the first time in history we’ve studied the physical appearance (or the cadaveric finding* ) of an animal we have had evidence for decades that was too different from any living animal today”

*"Appearance " might mean physical appearance or the event of finding the corpse, I’m not sure to which of the two they refer. That wasn’t your question though, I just needed to clarify.

Anyone knows which Dexter episode is this from? I loved the show, but I can’t recall seeing this one.

That’s an understandable take and the use of the word analogue is the key issue. It also left me stumped for a while, because as you have already pointed out, there are plenty of modern day analogues to Homotherium…

…but that depends on what counts as an analogue in this particular context. Biologically speaking, the word can be used to fit a broad range of criteria. So you could say their modern day analogues are lynxes or snow leopards, and fair enough, that would be a good enough use of the word because these animals do share a lot in common, physically and in their ecological roles too. Large catlike mammal that hunts down larger herbivore mammals in a tundra environment.

But Homotherium had some very specific traits that have no modern day analogues. The large canine teeth is the most obvious. Those large teeth also meant a specialized hunting method and technique for which we have nothing alive today to base it off of. They also had a different body build, with shorter rear limbs, so now your cat looks a bit more like a bear or a hyena in its stance and gait. And if I’m understanding what I’m reading correctly, they also had cardiovascular adaptations for endurance running, and their claws and paws were not as retractable and supple as that of cats.

So yes they were like cats and you can point at living analogues for a lot of these adaptations ( bears, hyenas, cats, any mammal with good cardio, etc) but when you put all that together and add the teeth and the behavior modifications those teeth imply then you have, as a whole, an animal with no current living analogues. Yes, it can sound pedantic but that’s science for you and I think it’s important to remark that the quote is taken directly from the paper published. The journalists loved the buzz emanating from the word “analogue” so much they kept it in the non scientific publications, they didn’t paraphrase, and they didn’t bother explaining exactly what it meant because, well, that’s precisely why they chose to keep the quote.

Well depends on your standards. Saint Seiya is one that comes to mind, because I’m old, but as with most animes the plot has hardly anything to do with actual myth. It’s just characters based lightly on mythical characters.

Wtf seriously!? Omg

Yes! Also in panties. Usually black, for some reason beyond me, is tighter than any other color both for bras and panties.