hey at least once your code is correct it’ll stay that way. You won’t have to deal with things like old and new versions of your program disagreeing on what time it was in Iran for the last month and a half of 1978

looking up this figure, 8 refers to the whole coelenteron (gut) while 12 refers specifically to the pharynx

*sigh*… relevant xkcd

because urchin = hedgehog

That was pretty much how the USSR spun Luna 1

If at first you don’t succeed

because sticks wiggle in the wind. it’s all part of their masterful ploy

And it’s entirely the tech companies making their own bed and then laying in it. In the few jurisdictions where the engineering regulatory colleges won out in protecting their title, there’s a slough of highly qualified Professional Software Engineers who’ve graduated from accredited programs alongside the people who grad from more theory-based compsci programs

They were effective anti-communists. Same reason after the War the US cuddled up with the essentially fascist regimes of Salazar and Franco.

Use the cyrillic letter А on your licence plate instead of the latin letter A. All your speeding tickets would be mailed to someone else

*a subtype of vector

vector is a type not a kind :P

Broke: Whales are fish because they look like other fish

Woke: Whales aren’t fish because they’re in the class Mammalia, not Pisces

Bespoke: Whales are fish because any monophyletic group that encompasses all the fishes must also include the clade Tetrapoda

Artichoke: Whales aren’t fish because fishes are a paraphyletic group that includes the entire clade Vertebrata at the exclusion of the clade Tetrapoda.

Stick and Poke: Whales are fish because they’ve developed the same bodyplan and are in the same ecological niche as the pelagic fishes.

Osoviakhim was somewhat more ideologically consistent than Paperclip. The scientists weren’t invited to the USSR with promises of cushy jobs and immunity from prosecution: they were forced from their homes, loaded onto freight trains, and made to work. It was part of the wider program of the Allies using the forced labour of ethnic Germans as a means of war reparations.

Either the image is an accurate facsimile (DNA was wrong and the guy’s wearing a men’s size shirt (buttons are on his right side)) or the image was mirrored (DNA was correct and the guy’s wearing a women’s size shirt (buttons are on his left))

there’s a myriad of phrases like that

understands that models are just useful lies

uses a lie that’s not all that useful

idk some are pretty easy. like MAP kinase kinase kinase kinases phosphorylate MAP kinase kinase kinases, it’s right in the name

Leaves evolved more times if you include blades of algae

Yeah I’ve seen 'em eating dead slugs

Most are yellow but they can be more tannish, white, or brown. Pacific banana slugs also often have black or dark brown spots (they look like overripe bananas) that can cover their entire body to make them black. Pacific banana slugs are usually less bright than California banana slugs too. The yellow is likely warning colouration: their slime has an anesthetic that numbs the tongue.