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Also, fun genetics fact – rafflesias show a large amount of horizontal gene transfer with their hosts, which is really weird because that's the kind of thing bacteria do. It's pretty much unheard of in complex organisms like flowering plants.
"Horizontal transfer of expressed genes in a parasitic flowering plant"
Xi et al (2012) – open access
https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2164-13-227
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This is a rafflesia. It's the world's largest single flower, and it grows in rainforests across Southeast Asia. These big blossoms can weigh up to 10kg, and can grow as large as an umbrella.
There are actually 28 species of rafflesia, and all are completely parasitic. They have no roots, stems, or leaves, and spend most of their lives living as a little more than a bunch of filaments hiding inside forest vines. At least one species no longer has the genes to grow chloroplasts.
They're also pollinated by carrion flies, which means they're rather stinky.
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@Mrfunkedude A fine choice.
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"there are those people out there who are stupid and don’t realize they are stupid" Now don't be smug about it because "we see it in other people, and we don’t see it in ourselves." That is the Dunning-Kruger Effect. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/31/18200497/dunning-kruger-effect-explained-trump
@metapsyche I'm sure that other philosophers have put this forward, but the Baal Shem Tov (A very famous/respected Jewish Rabbi) said something similar.
His thing was that if you came across a perfect person you wouldn't be able to see them. They'd be invisible to you. The reason is that we can only recognize in others what we have within ourselves.
In the simplest terms: when you recognize that someone is an asshole or a jerk, it is because you have been an asshole or a jerk.
@johnrandom@cryptids.online I, too, play the harmoanica.
@Mrfunkedude Pho w/Oxtail and the rest?
@spookcentral@cryptids.online ... Go on.
Suggestion: Bring back Homestar Runner to the top of the internet comedy world.
@johnrandom@cryptids.online @muppetbutler@cryptids.online That is why Mr. O'possum is asleep. When night comes he will awaken and seek out his best friend, the hoop snake.
@johnrandom@cryptids.online @muppetbutler@cryptids.online American Possum is nocturnal.
@johnrandom@cryptids.online What happened to Orb Classic<tm>?
@freemo It's just not the same if you don't do it in see-through.
@freemo Doc, I gotta say, these are some of the weirdest nudes.
@freemo that is why my terrible dating website suggests having a baby during that infatuation period. If you're unhappy with it you can always sell it organs!
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fake horses. farses.
@Ferretsyndicate@radical.town sounds uncomfortable.
@Lumb Immolation is the most honest expression of love.
@johnrandom@cryptids.online I think we can find a loophole. You'll only be a psychopath if you first pass them through a wood chipper, for instance, and not a misandrist.
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