I, for one, congratulate the senator from Kentucky on ascending from "Mitch McConnell Turtle Jowel" to "Mitch McConnell Meat Muppet". Truly, we've come leaps and bounds from the days of yore and consumption, to the tomorrow of "human centipede" model of economics and explosive diarrhea.
What time to be alive.
Depends on the question. In general, I ask my partner and she often doesn't know, so we quickly browse both reddit and quora for similar questions, laugh at the generally insane/inane responses that users often give, forget what we were doing and move on to something else.
Otherwise, I go for stack exchange and hope for the best.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jez.b.22690
See above for a possible explanation for the evolution of female orgasms. Tl;dr: in humans, it may be a trait derived originally from induced ovulation in more evolutionarily distant ancestors and changed to become what it is in humans over evolutionary time.
In a general evolutionary biology sense, "why" questions are a lot harder to answer than "how" questions. Many answers to "why" that are often given as "that makes sense" are often untested "just so" explanations.
Oh dang I didn't know about the twitch replacement. I'll have to check it out!
I played it on PlayStation as a kid. I really sucked at it, but I really enjoyed it.
It might, but exceedingly rarely. Albinism and melanism occurs in many taxa including species in the genus Panthera (which include lions and tigers). These are rare traits in general because they are selected against for one reason or another and don't proliferate in the wild.
Another possibility is that these phenotypes are linked to genes that have other downstream developmental effects that lead to non-viable fetuses.
Another fun one (possibly) is that some of these coat traits are controlled partially by the environment/the animal's spatial relationship with the environment. Siamese cats have the characteristic darker coat colors on their extremities (ears, paws, tails, snout, this is called acromelanism) because the melanism is controlled by lower temperature. If an animal never experiences a low temperature, that phenotype might never be expressed.
These are all possibilities. I'm a biologist but I don't study felids (cats and big cats).
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:
As a citizen of Earth, I would like to see:
As a person who enjoys knee-deep sci-fi, I would like to see:
As a (frustrated) scientist I would like to see:
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.
In terms of large, North American fast food chains, I like A&W, Carl's Jr/Hardy's, and Jack in the Box. In terms of smaller, regional chains, I think In-N-Out is leaps and bounds the best (though What-A-Burger is also really good). Outside of North America, I'm a pretty big fan of Mos Burger from Japan. JollyBee from the Philippines is also pretty great, but mostly because they serve spaghetti and I find that amusing.
I think Shake Shack is overrated but worth trying. FiveGuys is meh.
I also firmly believe that smaller burger chains like In-N-Out, Shake Shack, and What-A-Burger are probably more or less equal in terms of quality and what determines which you think is best is where you grew up.