talesfromtreatment:

talesfromtreatment:

*very suspicious squinting*

Skepticism activated

So it’s not a dire wolf (which are not very related to gray wolves at all), it’s a gray wolf with 14 modified genes.

Like yes, the technology is cool and the advances impressive, but these claims of de-extinction are so fucking overhyped and in this case an outright lie that it makes me want to bite something

From their own comments on reddit, they consider phenotype alterations to be the same as recreating a species. So their gray wolf with 14 modified genes out of tens of thousands “is” a direwolf because it looks a little different from a typical gray wolf.

“Recent” being 1.3 to 1.6 million years ago, with many specialized adaptations on the part of polar bears…

But also, how do they *know* they act like dire wolves????

So yeah, they’ve lost all my respect at this time.

biomic:

WHATEVER

biomic:

meltorights:

actually it’d be kind of interesting to hear what people’s first experiences of the big three were… for me it was:

first ultraman: mebius

first kamen rider: kiva (while gaim was airing so, with gaim)

first sentai: hurricaneger

naamahdarling:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

thisusernameisunique:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

thisusernameisunique:

jenovacomplete:

jenovacomplete:

daylight savings is actually truly one of the most evil things in the world. just casually forcing us to confront the fact that time is fake while torturing insomniacs, autistics and schoolchildren across the globe. when will the agony end

ideas conceived by the truly deranged

why does Australia go from 6 to 7:30 to 8 in NoDST mode

Why not 6 to 7 to 8 ?

Well see, our “states and territories” are sort of semi-independent bodies that sometimes make decisions that don’t really coordinate properly with the decisions of other states, so you get a mess like this. See, Australia isn’t so much a country as eight countries in a trenchco –

*gunshots*

…who the hell has a gun in Australia?

Farmers who have rabbits and foxes to get rid of

That’s what was in the trenchcoat?!

chillyfeetsteak:

chillyfeetsteak:

a few doors down from me my neighbors have a squirrel bar nailed to the tree in front of the sidewalk, not exactly this but something like this:

it’s been there for years and they never “stock” it so it’s just sitting there. anyway, i thought it would be cute to make a little squirrel out of sculpey and leave it on one of the stools in the middle of the night. i also made a little sculpey beer bottle with its own label.

it lasted exactly one day and now it is gone. it didn’t fall off, i stuck it on with tape. what do you think happened to it? your most fantastical and wrong answers only, please

HUGE NEWS HUGE UPDATE

squirrel REAPPEARED today… NOW PAINTED

yo-yo-yoshiko:

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And that’s the way the cookie crumbled.