shanaqui @shanaqui@octodon.social
Moderator on Habitica. Book blogger at The Bibliophibian. Married. Pronouns they/them/their. Is asexual and all kinds of queer.
@susannah Nope, you were fine! It's this particular person who really keeps pushing my buttons, somehow.
(Like, despite capitulating and rephrasing my post, I still think that evolution by natural selection matches all our observations of the world. Not alone, but I didn't SAY it did so alone.)
@wohali Nope! We have also had a bunny called Brioche, one called Cinnamon Bun, and my dad had a rabbit called Casserole.
@steeliestllama Oh agreed, but that might fix the issue at least!
@susannah That's my understanding too. I wish he'd tell me his sources so I can actually understand where he's coming from, instead of me saying "but natural selection does fit with what he can observe (if not on its own)" and him saying "no". Raaargh.
(Look at that, my impostor syndrome is playing merry hell.)
@steeliestllama Have you tried redoing specific lessons, or are you just doing the general strengthening? I found that the general strengthening sometimes didn't cover the one thing that I needed to get it to go gold.
@susannah That's the thing, he actually believes in evolution. He just keeps telling me that I'm wrong to state that "natural selection fits with the observations we can make of the world around us", without specifying WHAT observations it fails to fit in with.
I am being told at some length and with some persistence that there is a "huge body of work" proving natural selection may be wrong or not the whole story etc, etc. Can anyone point me to a source for natural selection being WRONG by an actual scientist? (Person in question has only said "Gould vs Dawkins", which is not very helpful or specific.)
@susannah I should've said; I mean I'm looking specifically for evidence to support "it might be wrong". (I'm doing a science degree, the other stuff is not news to me.)
For the love of BUNNIES, why can't I seem to sleep more than an hour at a time?!
Breakfast has a pen now and can run around a bit more, and suddenly he is full of interest and hopping after a quiet day post-op. <3 https://octodon.social/media/pM-AcLg-ZL2OzI0XFrA https://octodon.social/media/I7EQeSZACOFd_5YLDZY
I'm having one of those days where the world seems like an intensely frightening place.
Oh goody. Suddenly, I am extra sensory-defensive and I don't know why. EVERYONE STOP MAKING NOISE OR I WILL CRY OR SOMETHING.
COMPUTER STOP MAKING NOISE.
Clothes, stop touching my skin!
...This is fun.
I'm not up at nearly 5am because I'm nervous about my bunny's neutering later today. Not at all.
@susannah Luck!
New post up on NEAT science! About the latest paper on the potential for life on Saturn's moon Enceladus: https://neatscienceblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/a-whole-new-world/
I sometimes picture mastodon as those Haven cities in zombie films.
"I heard it's safe! They got food, clean water, and the brands ain't got up there yet!"
Hee. Our new coaster set, courtesy of FireFeatherDesign (https://www.etsy.com/shop/FireFeatherDesign): https://octodon.social/media/8W6s7TBCGsUv5hWdNZE 🐑 💚
@susannah Thank you! I'm looking forward to it, honestly. So many posts lined up. 😄
@bradlibum Huh, I should look that up. AFAIK, carbon particles wouldn't work (they're not reflective and would react with oxygen to produce CO2, which increases warming, I think), but there might be some options.
