Lol. Lmao even

“ So it’s not the same species at all.”

“ Only if you use the scientific definition of species! However, if you use my definition that I just made up-“

actually as long as we're talking about realistic expectations of ageing, the nature of social media decontextualising people's personal posts has absolutely given some of you guys a false and potentially dangerous view of how your body is expected to change over time. I semi frequently see people sharing or repackaging commentary on experiences with disability as if it's an inevitable part of getting older. and like, yes, as you get older you are likely to develop new conditions, injuries or disabilities, but you need to understand your body's baseline well enough to identify those changes and interrogate them.

e.g. if you are seriously having such bad joint or back pain in your 30s that it hampers your day to day activities, you need to take that seriously. that is not 'just ageing', that's potentially an indicator of an underlying condition, unaddressed injury (which is quite common but will get worse if you don't notice and take care of it) or daily habits (poor posture, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle) causing cumulative damage to your body.

I know plenty of 30+ and 40+ year olds who are not especially athletic but who can still climb up and down stairs with ease, sit on the floor and get up again without discomfort, have floor or shower sex, ride a bike, wrestle a dog or a kid, climb a tree, maybe even do a handstand. there is no shame at all in developing pain or mobility issues which limit the kinds of things you can do comfortably, but it doesn't serve anyone to pretend that those changes are bound up with reaching a certain age. even in your 60s and 70s and beyond you should notice if you start feeling a new kind of pain or physical limitation. don't dismiss this shit just because someone told you "yeah that happens when you pass 30"

Echoing the part where it SHOULDNT be happening when you're 30. If you have such severe body pain in your 30s that is NOT caused by a known condition or injury, then YOU NEED TO GET THAT SHIT CHECKED OUT. Your body doesn't just "fall apart for no reason once you hit 30." If you're physically falling apart in your 30s and you don't know the cause, then get that explored.

Furthermore, there is basic stuff you can do to prevent things like age-related joint pain and etc. All bodies are different, so look into it yourself in order to work out the best option for you, but the short version is: movement = continued movement. Lack of movement = more pronounced lack of movement.

Exceptions apply, but basically, the human body was made to move. And if you don't move your joints and muscles frequently, they get all rusty. You need to keep them moving in order to be able to keep them moving.

So take up swimming. Or maybe walking is better for you. Or perhaps a YouTube yoga video that you follow along with in your living room. Or take up weights training. ESPECIALLY if you're a woman, btw - weights training is super important for female bone density, and its never too early or too late to get started on that. You don't have to be heating half a tonne on a bar above your head to do weights training. Controlled exercises with small-size weights is going to be very healthy for your muscles and bones.

A groan when you get to your feet in your 30s is one thing. Being sore after a day of physical exertion is one thing. But merely existing should not fill your day with pain. In your 30s, you should in fact be able to do most of the things you could do when you were in your 20s. A bit more slowly, perhaps, or a bit lighter.

But if you can't walk up the stairs without pain, or can't pick up a toddler, or can't sit on the floor without getting stuck down there, and there's no known reason for that? Then you need to go get checked out, because barring medical conditions or prior injuries, you should be able to do those things.

this company is so frustratingly misleading. They did not bring back the direwolf (Aenocyon dirus). They modified a modern grey wolf (Canis lupus) into having some direwolf morphology. There has been no de-extinction. This is pure hype slop. As a friend said "these are dire wolves the same way La Croix is a fruit".

I still think this tech has the potential to be helpful in a conservation context.... but it says a A LOT that these "dire wolves" look far more like something you'd see in Game of Thrones than any of the most likely reconstructions proposed by scientists who've studied the fossil record.

These pups might get more robust as they age, but right now I'm not seeing anything to get excited about. I just can't help but suspect that this species was chosen specifically bc the public already has the idea of "dire wolf = gray wolf + big", and that this company is using relatively minor CRISPR editing to give the false impression that they're recreating anything that might have conceivably lived 10,000 years ago.

Again, I think this tech is interesting and merits further development (and if jurassic park is the only way they can do that, then, I guess that's what's happening), but it's still extremely misleading to parade these animals around like they've actually 100% cloned a dire wolf.

Really reminds me of Jurassic Park. In the books, Crichton made it very clear that they didn't actually clone dinosaurs. They just combined DNA to make an animal that looked like what people EXPECT a dinosaur to look like, because it turned out that actual cloned dinosaurs were really quite dull and spent most of their time hiding.

Aencyon dirus isn't closely related to modern wolves at all either so it doesn't make any sense to start with a gray wolf. (According to wikipedia they were isolated from the gray wolf lineage for over 5 million years.) we thought they were in genus Canis but turns out it was just convergent evolution and they are a whole other thing

now that I actually read the article, I realize that the lede was buried-- they genetically modified this wolf, and they also cloned 4 critically endangered red wolves

I think the TIME article is really irresponsible in acting like the pups are dire wolves when they don't contain any dire wolf DNA. The "dire wolf" pups are literally just gray wolve engineered to look more like the creatures on Game of Thrones (literally--one of the pups is named Khaleesi)

I remain cautiously optimistic though, because it seems like they are doing actually useful research for preserving existing animals and then putting a Jurassic Park type spin on it for the media.

The Dire wolf thing honestly might just be an attention-grabber to get money off of people that know nothing about ecosystems, and the red wolf might be the actual real purpose of the research. If they've figured out the genetic basis of body size and certain "wolfy" behaviors in wolves, they could make it possible to bring coyote-red wolf hybrids into the red wolf breeding pool without sacrificing the wolf traits

Y'all, just think about guys like Elon Musk. Rich tech bros with a 5 yr old boy's idea of what is cool. This stuff is perfectly calibrated to siphon off some of those techbro's billions, while on the side, being helpful to conservation

Just look at the traits of the altered pups that are highlighted in the article: snout, jaw and limb thickness and heaviness, vocalizations, body size. All key traits that separate red wolves and coyotes.

Here's what the article says:

They're using this technology to bring genetic diversity from red wolf/coyote hybrids back into the red wolf gene pool. As soon as I read "red wolves" I suspected this might be what was happening, and I was right. This could help fix the genetic bottleneck in red wolves and make a real chance for the species to actually return.

this approach is honestly genius

It's like those researchers who have made huge strides in lake ecology with funding they get by "searching for the Loch Ness Monster"

yup exactly

just a quick search of this Bridgett vonHoldt demonstrates that she is a BIG DEAL in the world of canine evolution and genomics. she's worked on groundbreaking publications that have hundreds of citations in some of the most renowned scientific journals. She's the real deal.

whether Colossal is serious and knowledgeable or not, they're working with people who are.

Excluding the crucial fact that office jobs pay you an income….if staying home to raise children and do chores and bake bread was really so much easier and more joyful than working in an office on some objective level, why aren’t men doing it? Why aren’t they chomping at the bit to be ~leisurely house husbands~ to a working wife? Why aren’t they stepping up to depend solely on someone else’s income in exchange for round-the-clock domestic labor, if it’s really as blissful and their propaganda suggests? Curious.

Thank you! This is such an important reminder.

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this.

We can't. We need answers. - Sen. Adam Schiff

Christians keep stealing shit from other esoteric traditions when St Barbara is right there.

Y'all have a PATRON SAINT OF BOMBS AND EXPLOSIONS AND NONE OF Y'ALL EVER MENTION HER

Her symbology is the Chalice and Cannon. Queen.

her Wikipedia page says she's lesbian

*LEBANESE

patron saint of osha

Can't get over the fact she is named Barbara like I'm sorry but-

Oracle!Barbara hacking the army to use a satellite to shoot an exploding death ray at her enemies while the computer light behind her head gives her an oracle-green angelic halo listen listen LISTEN

Cinematography by Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC: The Shawshank Redemption (1994) directed by Frank Darabont

Mary Poppins (1964) dir. Robert Stevenson

MSNBC covered this story yesterday. Unfuckingbelievable

Don't buy your advisors on Amazon

Mark Hamill remembers Carrie Fisher.

found on: reddit

they said it couldn't be done etc etc [x]

Some more from their IGN press release. If there's anyone at GDC right now: they have a booth with more details. And a zine with membership information. 🥺

when i say my gender changes to the tune of the bit i mean a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do and if he can’t then god forbid women do anything

jokerkind specibus ass

But you still recognized that as a Homestuck reference.

What were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament?

i googled the words & got results from the homestuck wiki. that’s not attending the devil’s sacrament that’s investigating suspicious noises in the woods by lanternlight