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I block them as they come up. Individual users seem to be good about posting it to specific communities, so I typically just block the community, but I'm pretty sure there are some users that I've blocked entirely because they (as far as I can tell) only post furry content. I haven't seen any furry content on my lemmy feed for at least a year now, I think.

Part of it is also the instance where you registered your account. I think lemmy.world not only has more furry communities, but is also federated with more instances that have furry content. I'm not an expert on how federation works though, so someone with better understanding might step and correct me. Also, I don't think there's an algorithm on lemmy...but I might be wrong about that too.

Selfishly, as a biologist, I would like to see:

• Reconciliation of rates of evolution that scales from microevolution to macroevolution
• Accurate/reasonable estimation of lineage death rates for macroevolutionary diversification analysis
• (extension of previous) Reasonably estimate fossilization probability for (more) accurate clade age estimates
• Moving beyond phylogenetic trees (phylogenetic networks are a step in the right direction I think)

As a citizen of Earth, I would like to see:

• Actual plastic recycling that dramatically reduces the need for virgin petro-chemicals
• A 3D printer beyond plastics (I think this kind of a thing, but I would like it to scale for consumers and industry)
• A less massive battery that can be used for commercial flight
• Better earthquake detection

As a person who enjoys knee-deep sci-fi, I would like to see:

• FTL travel
• Futurama style heads-in-a-jar
• A Dyson sphere or swarm
• A hyperloop

As a (frustrated) scientist I would like to see:

• Society move beyond "societal utility" of scientific studies/discovery and embrace "science for the sake of science"

If you just want the batter to run to all the bases and reach home and score a point (or a run, by baseball jargon) with no regard for on field ruling, then yes by a series of errors being committed by the fielders.

For example if a fielder throws to first to get an out, but throws it out of reach from any fielder. However, in this case the ball MUST NOT leave the field of play (e.g., get thrown into the stands), otherwise the ball is dead, and the runner will be placed on a base at the umpire's discretion.

This however is not a home run by rule, but rather a fielding error(s) that results in a run.

Another option is that none of the fielders try to get the ball. They just stand around after the batter bunts the ball. There's no real reason this would happen, unless something extraordinary happens (aliens land on the stands, that sort of thing). This would probably be ruled a home run, but again, astronomically unlikely.

If you're allowing swinging bunts, you could potentially have a batter "doink" the ball over the in fielders but outside the reach of an outfielder and have the fielder run past the ball without touching it (if they touch it, it's an error). If the batter runs fast enough as all of this happens you can conceivably have a home run this way.

The "I'm trying to break physics" version of this may have been covered by XKCD at some point.

They don't, you're just obligated to report your global income as a US citizen. This isn't a big deal if you plan to never go back to the US to live there, but if you do (or aren't sure), this becomes a major issue because all those years you didn't file your taxes with the IRS makes you effectively a tax cheat whether or not you owe any taxes at all.

If you pay income tax to another foreign government (that has a tax treaty with the USA) and you earn below the threshold for an individual or a household, then you don't pay taxes at all. In order for the IRS to determine this they need to know how much you made. I don't know what the actual threshold is for individuals, but in the 5 years that I've been living outside of the US, I haven't paid a single cent in US income tax. It's a pain in the ass, but whatever, you get used to it.

Depends on the use case. I default to my 1L Nalgene or my metal 0.75L generic metal bottle I got at a museum for daily use whilst sitting at my desk at work. For hiking, I prefer the larger capacity Nalgene (I think 1.75L), and possibly an additional 1L for longer hikes. For cycling, I have a couple squeezy plastic bottles that fit nicely in my bottle cage.

I do like the idea of a glass bottle with the rubber/silicone guard thing and thought about getting one, but decided to stick with Nalgene when I had the replace my old 1L.

...so basically Metal Gear Solid with fewer steps and some comic relief.

A version of the Matrix where Neo is a pigeon.

I felt that in the bone. Postdoc life is one foot getting ready to move and the other foot dreading every decision that led to the thought "A PhD is a good idea"

It was a good idea, but holy shit is it all sorts of miserable.

I CHOOSE YOU, BALLSACK FR- I mean, turtle frog! https://share.google/2q4ew0HzbeLWAjPfm

It doesn't just feel like public trash cans are rare, they are rare. In 1995, cultists hid sarin containers in public trash cans and trains in and near a Tokyo subway station. One conclusion that was reached from the incident was to get rid of public trash cans and shift society toward disposing of trash at home.

Do lizard-people have hemipenes and cloacas?

Adding to this: XX and XY works for mammals, but not for other vertebrates (fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians). Birds and reptiles have Z and W chromosomes, and unlike in mammals where females are homozygotes, males in these groups are homozygotes. Some reptiles have temperature dependent sex determination, where ambient temperature above some value will produce males or females (depends on species). Some reptiles are composed entirely of females.

Some fish will straight up change sexes depending on age and male-female ratio in a social group.

In other groups it's not even different chromosomes but simply copy number of specific genes.

Plants can do all sorts of whacky things like produce seeds and pollen in the same individual.

Fungi are an entirely different cluster fuck because they have mating types which are not simple binaries.

Eukaryotic sex determination isn't a binary and it isn't even a nicely categorizable spectrum. It's a grab-bag of whatever doesn't perma-fuck your genome.

Source: me, I'm a biologist. Though admittedly I work on animals so my understanding of fungi and plant stuff is fuzzy at best.