Auntievenim

Interesting. They were expecting the additional diversity of the food web in these areas to lead to the snakes evolving more universally deadly venom.

I think it stands to reason that in an environment with a large variety of food the snake would develop some type of preference or be limited by their own capabilities to hunt certain prey. The venom is tailored to have the strongest effect on the prey most likely to be caught.

A diverse biome could create a larger potential for diverse feeding habits, but who's to say snakes don't just prefer eating birds or whatever when they have the freedom to choose which prey they value most?

Very cool study, I'll be interested to see what comes from this

Why do Tesla fans always look like that

Where are these rising incomes they cite as a reason for continued relatively high consumer spending

Broadcasting your criminal intent to commit war crimes in an international meeting and then tweeting it out with a transcript just to ensure that everyone on earth can see how utterly depraved and genocidal both Israel and the united states government is 👍👍👍👍

Thank you someone for finally saying it holy shit

Who'd guess the cia deputy director would raise such a gullible piece of shit

Well, for one thing, the "rent increase" axis starts at 25%

I got served an unironically white nationalist 4chan post and apparently posting "kys" in a comment is, regardless of any context, justification to admin ban me from an entire instance/multiple communities with no notification.

I only found out bc I messaged a mod I recognized in a sub I was banned from and they said it wasn't a mod action it was instance admins or something and there was nothing they could do

I get it but also like nobody forced you to trawl my comments in other instances and block me pre-emptively for not following your rules. I also should 100% be told about an action like this regardless of how flimsy their justification is.

I shouldn't have to figure it out myself and then go find out how to contact the admins of an instance I'm not even on. All that effort just to argue a case about how they took my shitty comment out of context.

(All this on the instance that hosts the community about .ml mods unilaterally banning people for saying mean things they don't like.)

Godspeed to you, you beautiful soul.

Right, like, corruption is there, sure. But the corruption in and of itself has no impact on the viability of the public service. The fact that it is privately owned and for profit by definition will mean that the money allocated for the service originally will be redirected into being profit instead. What happens to a service that now has less funding? It turns to shit.

Can public services have corruption? Sure.

The difference being: corruption of a service in which 99% of funding is directed towards providing the service takes less away than corruption of a service with half of the funding being allocated as "profits" before even getting to the "corruption" in the equation.

You're basically multiplying the effectiveness of corruption by giving the responsibility to capitalists who will, first and foremost, create profits out of a publicly funded service.

VAT pays for public Healthcare in real countries