King_Bob_IV

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[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 1 points 17 hours ago

From my limited understanding the removal of an apex predator can cause role effects through a good chain. First their primary preys will tend to over populate. Then the food sources for this pretty well get devastated by the extra consumption. Then any animal or plant that relies upon whatever food sources can collapse as well.

The example that was explained to me, and please give me some grace as this is me remembering this from a zoology course in college a decade ago, I a burn in Yellowstone national Park.

Birders had noticed that a population of a small songbird had collapsed. When wolves were reintroduced to the park they started to bounce back. Turns out the birds only beard in a particular your of shrub. That shrub was getting over eaten by the elk population despite it not being a prefered food since. The elk were heavily overpopulated and devouring less preferred food in much higher volumes because there were no wolves to keep the population in check. So when wolves can't back everything started to balance back out.

This is a pretty straightforward example of how interconnected the average food web in an ecosystem in. These kind of role effects can spread well past the immediate area where a key species is removed. But hopefully it can help show how one species can be so critical for an ecosystem. I don't know about the animals in this case, but I suspect it would be something like this.

I always carried purple, none of the guys I knew would steal a purple lighter and I always knew which where mine.

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Look into dice trays, put some sacrificial wood between your table and the dice. All the nice sounds, none of the unintentional damage.

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago

Not a country? Maybe that's why it's not included.

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno, traditionally people have to die from the vampire bite before becoming one, not before.

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think in the third case the symbiont wouldn't be in Sto'Vo'Kor. It didn't die. So a Jadzia returning would be without Dax. So then the question would be would she return with the Dax memories or not.

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago

As an Alberta I resent the accuracy of your assessment....

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

He is also being charged federally. And that is the capital case.

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

There are some polishs that are specifically magnetic. They are really cool.

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

This weekend I got to use my new name and pronouns with my community for the first time ever. I couldn't believe how good it felt to hear my new name coming from the people I love. I have been having a really tough couple of months as I have been slowly processing my gender and the joy this weekend gave me made it all feel worth it.

I am extremely lucky, I have so many amazing people around me. All of my people that I reintroduced myself to were excited and supportive. I know that I have a really long road ahead and that not everyone is going to be that great. But I got a taste of what I am doing this for and I think she's going to be worth it.

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

I have never seen a specialist without a giant wait-list. These providers tend to have too many patients so they have a negative incentive for trying to make it easier to reach them.

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the classic r/Superbowl. Greatest sub reddit scoop in the history of Reddit.

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