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To anyone who follows me, I don't care about nor trust Colossal Biosciences anymore (The people behind the "Wooly Mice"). They have proven themselves to be headline-chasing grifters after this latest stunt. They are claiming to have de-extincted *Aenocyon dirus*, aka the Dire Wolf, by editing just 20 genes from the the DNA of a Grey Wolf (*Canis lupus*) to make this thing:
If it wasn't clear from their scientific names, Grey Wolves and Dire Wolves aren't remotely related to one another aside from being Canids, despite what pop culture like Game of Thrones would have you believe. If they did look like each other, it would have had to be via convergent evolution, as they only shared a common ancestor over 5 million years ago.
This distinction, however, isn't found in the publicized articles about this so-called resurrected Dire Wolf and makes their claim that they brought the Dire Wolf back by simply editing *20* genes from the genome of a Grey Wolf laughable. A Dire Wolf would have shared more in common genetically with a Maned Wolf (*Chrysocyon brachyurus*) or Bush Dog (*Speothos venaticus*) than it would with a Grey Wolf.
Bottom line, don't fall for whatever this company is trying to tell you. If the Dire Wolf were to be brought back, it wouldn't be via something like this, and certainly wouldn't *look* like this. If you want an idea as to how a real Dire Wolf would look like in life, here is some fantastic paleoart by artist Mauricio Antรณn:
Addendum: I seem to have partially miscalculated Dire Wolf genetics. They were not closer to Maned Wolves or Bush Dogs, but they were still not closely related to Grey Wolves. They were basal members of Canini, related to canids like Jackals (genus Lupulella) but distinct from them. I am sorry for this misinformation in my attempt to correct other misinformation. My main point, however, is still correct.
Yeah, I saw this and my immediate thought was "these people don't know what they're doing". My second thought was, "these people know what they're doing is a scam". Either way, I've always been very suspicious of Colossal's, well, colossal claims, and now it's clear they're full of shit
slug: hmmmโฆ plant: *chawmp* slug: ah I see. no thank you.
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me whenever I see posts about how canon is shit and can be discarded
re: everyone stomping their feet and loudly whining in the notes
ACTIVE COYOTE ALERT
honestly the discourse on this site is so bad that I have a new hot take: if you use tumblr at all fuck you
Checked their account: turns out op is a fucking tumblr user themselves so????? Idk :/
which one of you motherfuckers reblogged this again
Husband = ืืขื/Ba'al, with a ืข
Onion = ืืฆื/Batzal, with a ืฆ
i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service youโre organising" one of the tags responding said "this isnโt about proshippers in here youโre not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.
There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.
For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.
Tell them the air is halal too
Seriously do these people not understand that anything without pork or alcohol can be halal? Or that almost all seafood is halal? Even if other meats arenโt halal basically anything vegan or vegetarian is by default halal
the issue with toblerone and the reason they added the halal certificate is because nougat is often one of those things that can contain hidden pork through the gelatine (not all countries demand a specification on what kind of gelatine, and pork is the most common one), but most chocolate nougat bars have now switched to cheaper gelling agents, not for a love towards muslim but to get more profitโฆ and as someone that is from a halal household, toblerone has literally always been halal for muslims to eatโthe halal certificate just makes it official and easier for muslims to find
^^ Thanks for clearing that up, I was wondering what the hell would make a chocolate bar be non-halal.ย
that means itโs kosher, too!
โMy stupid woke chocolate doesnโt even have pork in itโ
Itโs important to note that just because something is marked halal does not immediately mean that itโs also kosher. In the case of Toblerone, most of them are (theyโre kosher dairy, either because milk chocolate contains dairy or theyโre made on dairy equipment) but there are Toblerone products that are not considered kosher.
Itโs important to always check for hechshers if you or someone you know keeps kosher, especially if youโre buying or making food for other people. One person might be willing to eat non-hechshered food items (like sushi) provided that all the ingredients are โkosherโ (no trief), but another person might not be.
If you have any doubts about an itemโs kashrut status, ask your local rabbi.
It is kind of funny elon musk didnโt do the math and that people sort of need to like you for you to become emperor alive
Like I know itโs a ketamine fueled spiral but pretty famously this is common knowledge
Thereโs a reason Bread and Circuses was common Roman policy in keeping the masses complacent and Americans canโt afford the circus or even good bread
GBBO: โA sโmore is basically just an Italian merengue sandwiched between two ganache-covered digestivesโ
Americans:
in case anyone in wondering, this is Paul Hollywood's idea of a s'more
You know what, their absolute inability to grasp Mexican foods makes more sense every day
Nodding my head in support of the Americans despite having no clue what a sโmore is.
Okay, American immigrant to the UK here to explain all the mistakes from Paul Hollywood happening here: there is one fundamentally American ingredient required to make a s'more correctly but which is basically not available anywhere at all in the UK, and that is graham crackers. A plain digestive biscuit close-ish, but still a very different beast.
From Wikipedia: A graham cracker is a sweet flavored cracker made with graham flour.
The next ingredient (which is also extremely traditionally American but slightly more variable) is typically Hershey's chocolate, but you could probably swap this out in the UK with any plain chocolate bar.
Last ingredient is big marshmallows, the kind you do the chubby bunny challenge with, like the size of your thumb and twice as thick.
A proper s'more, the most traditional possible variety, involves to graham cracker squares, two slab segments of Hershey's chocolate, and one to two marshmallows depending on your preference for filling and gooeyness. You put a slab of chocolate on one of the graham cracker squares. Your marshmallows should be toasted, usually over a campfire but if you're doing them at home over a gas stove burner is fine, but the fire part is critical. You can toast them to whatever degree you like, some people like them nice and golden brown but still kind of firm in the middle, me personally? I want that bitch to CATCH ON FIRE, I want it gooey and sticky as hell in the middle, crispy and burnt on the outside. Slap that motherfucker on your graham cracker and chocolate square, top with the other one so your marshmallow and chocolate are sandwiched together by graham cracker on the outside. You do this with your freshly toasted marshmallow because ideally it will be hot enough to start to melt the chocolate so it sticks to the marshmallow and the graham cracker and, combined with the gooey marshmallow, it keeps the whole thing together, and for that reason some people will let them sit for a hot second to let the melting process happen (especially if like me you have chocolate on BOTH graham cracker squares, not just one, because you're a sugar fiend), but if you are a young child you do not have that degree of patience and you eat that shit immediately, unmelted chocolate and all. Consume your summer camp delight like a tiny club sandwich, get gooey sticky marshmallow and chocolate all over your hands, and enjoy.
Important note: this is a kids treat. It is a traditional summer camping trip dessert. It should be something any ten year old with adult supervision and access to the ingredients can make (and make a mess of). They're called s'mores because kids always "want s'more". If you are using a blowtorch, chocolate biscuits, and merengue, you are so far beyond the bounds of s'more-hood that you have thoroughly lost the plot. If you offered Paul Hollywood's concoction to an American child and called it a s'more, they'd tell you flat out that not only is it not a s'more, it looks dumb and you didn't do it right because it's not gooey.
Graham crackers are a distinctly American thing. They were created by a minister during the temperance movement who believed that the way to get people to stop masturbating was to feed them a diet of only dry, sugarless crackers made from a coarsely ground wheat.
Fortunately one of the few things Americans love more than protestantism is adding sugar to things. So we added sugar and used them to make s'mores, the most sugar-heavy treat imaginable, and we never did stop cranking it.
I for one enjoy finding new ways to adulterate Rev. Graham's crackers specifically to spite him.
canceled my prime membership today
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