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Imagine being so bad at jerking off that you need instructions

@Rwoeidk she's not poor at all, she's got a great life! I still get to see her pretty often. An old roommate of ours was moving somewhere he couldn't have pets so we kept her and then the friend who has her now took her with when he moved out. He hated cats before but the two of them were basically inseparable.

8 yr old Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The butterflies he had tended as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. When he released them into the wild, they would fly right back to him. Was it possible they actually remembered him?

Jo wrote a letter to an entomologist at Georgetown University, Dr. Martha Weiss. He asked if she could help him design an experiment, and she said yes.

Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70% of them still avoided the scent. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis, yet the memory survived anyway. Then he bred them.

The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to lavender their grandmother had been taught to fear.

Jo presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.

A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

yahoo.com/news/science/article

#Butterflies #Science #Nature #Memory

had to make a brand new emuNAND because some shit happened to mine when i updated atmosphere, no idea what but it is completely fucked. luckily, the only thing i really lose are my mario party superstars and tears of the kingdom save files so... nothing that important.

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ancient pic of ol' sushi (she's an old woman at my friend's house now)

alright i gotta re-mod my switch now because i've gotta help two friends mod theirs in the next couple days and i can't remember anything

@djsumdog i think it was always called faith. i remember when vinesauce played it a little bit after it came out. but the guy expanded that game and then made two more and now it is on a bunch of places called "faith the unholy trinity"

FAITH is the best Christian game and nothing else even comes close.

@sj_zero @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend this is just talking about the cost of materials too, there's also r&d and other shit.

@EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend the way i see it, the form factor and seamlessness are massive selling points.

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