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heres my proposal for pikmin 5: olimar's kids are grown up and scientists properly investigating pnf-404
olimar's notes always talk about how his kids are really intrigued by his adventures and the creatures he sees.... i like to imagine his son is still very active, and thus has a special ability of being able to climb up ledges, while his sister cant/wont. on the flipside, while he's more into the geological/historical part, his sister is into the biological side. she has really in-depth profiles on current and new creatures. olimar's son's notes are more like brittany's. the "mission" is collecting animal carcasses for dissection, and treasures to investigate pnf-404's history. includes olimar's son actually being able to identify a juicer as a juicer, for example
#olimar's daughter still loves shiny things obviously and this is reflected in her nonscientific notes on treasures lol#pikmin#captain olimar#olimar's kids#u really cant tag much for this game lol#pikmin au#? i wanna have a tag in case i do more hehe#my art
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Ok how do u explain Lloyds hair color. Bc I'm pretty sure blonde hair isn't a dominant gene, and both of Lloyds parents have brown hair. Did he bleach it??? How??? Where would he get those resources he's like 8 in S1 and also homeless. Actually on that note what color do u think the FSM's hair was. Because ONE of the siblings has a different one than him. I've always thought the FSM's hair was blonde, bc when it greys out it's so pale, and also because angst in the way of Garmadon being different from his family from the start, but like. How would Garm have gotten the brown hair. Do they have a mom or did the FSM perform mitosis???? AND ALSO Garmadon's hair whites out and doesn't grey out despite him being a brunette (and later having black hair but that's bc of the Venom Influence) so. What's up with that. Also why does Wu's hair go white so early we know he was born with blonde hair. And why doesn't it apply to Lloyd too. What's happening. Where am I.
Right off the bat, lets dispel a common genetics misconception. Yes, its true that when a dominant and recessive gene get paired up, the dominant gene will be presented. You're also correct that blonde is recessive and brown is dominant. However! Like all things in biology, its a bit more complicated than that.
To simplify a surprisingly complicated science to the best of my ability, think of it like this. Although you will typically present based on whatever is the most dominant genes you inherited, you are still a carrier of sorts for the recessive genes. So Garmadon has brown hair, but his father and brother are both blonde, which means he has the potential to be a carrier for the blonde gene.
Then there's Misako, who is also a brunette. We don't know what her parents looked like, but lets say one of them was blonde. Even if she presents as brunette, she could still carry the recessive blonde gene.
When both parents are carriers for the same recessive gene, there's generally gonna be a 1 in 4 chance of their child presenting recessive rather than dominant. So, if we assume one of Misako's ancestors was blonde, then Lloyd being blonde is entirely likely.
This is a depressingly oversimplified summary of the situation, but I'm too lazy to get into the nitty grittys. Feel free to look up 'punnett squares' if you wanna learn more!
You do present a fascinating question, though: where did Garmadon get his brown hair?
Scientifically, the only explanation I can think of would be if Wu and Garm had a birth-mother of some kind. But i personally don't like that explanation because it just makes canon way more complicated than it needs to be. Tangentially, I'm also an "FSM Asexually Reproduced" truther all the way. I refuse to consider the possibility of the FSM having procreated with another person. That man either laid an egg or did some kinda mitosis shenanigan and you absolutely cannot convince me otherwise.
Luckily, we have the luxury of considering nonscientific alternatives.
To understand a more magic- and lore-based approach to the question of the hair colors present int his family, let's first take a look at the family tree:
FSM - blonde (as far as we can guess, at least). Half-dragon, half-oni. Also has godly powers of Creation and Destruction.
Garmadon - brunette. Has inherited the powers of Destruction.
Wu - blonde. Has inherited powers of Creation.
Lloyd - blonde. Has inherited a power very similar to the FSM, in that it's Creation-adjacent (listen, if you have a better way to describe Green fucking Energy, then by all means correct me).
Do you see where I'm going with this? Within the context of the FSM and his bloodline, it would not be entirely unreasonable to assume that blonde hair is in some way affiliated with the draconic half of their bloodline, whereas brown hair is more so affiliated with the oni half of their bloodline. So an individual's hair color may not necessarily be determined solely by standard genetics like a normal human would, but rather by which part of their bloodline they take after more strongly.
In this interpretation, Lloyd being blonde can be seen as a visual shorthand to represent how he has taken more so after his uncle/grandfather in terms of powerset and moral alignment.
Personally, I think both of these explanations are equally valid. That being said, it should be noted that a lot of this discussion operates on the assumption that Ninjagian genetics work in any way similar to ours. For all we know, blonde could be the in-universe dominant trait and brown could be recessive. The possibilities are endless.
I mean, c'mon. It's a fantasy story where the world was created by spinning around really fast. Lloyd canonically has shapeshifting powers, for crying out loud. I feel like him being blonde is completely within the realm of possibility, even without the scientific explanation. I feel like holding this series to any standard of scientific fidelity is just downright silly.
Anyway, thanks for the ask! Hope those answers were to your liking <3
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Faith neurodivergent flag
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This is a flag for neurodivergent or persodivergent people who believe that neurodivergence is linked to religion/spirituality or caused by some religious or spiritual phenomena, or belive more in nonscientific explanations for their neurodivergence.
This flag wasn't made to hurt someone but to represent those people, who'r frequently humiliated in ND/PD communities, because of their different opinions, and views of their nd or conditions.
There's no right or wrong to identify with this term!
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#neurodivergent pride#neurodivergent positivity#neurodivergent flag#anti psychiatry#anti psych#mad pride#spirituality#religious neurodivergent#tulpamancy#plural community#system positivity#neurodivergent community#self diagnosed safe#freedom of religion#disability pride#madpunk#spiritual knowledge#metaphysical tulpa#spiritual cure#spiritual tulpa#soulbond#servitors#soulmates#soulbonding#walk ins#demonkin#demon alter#satanism#nd community#neurodivergence
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Massive dino from Brazil ate 'like a pelican,' controversial new study finds. Why is it causing an uproar?
The study reveals new information about the carnivorous dinosaur Irritator challengeri, but the research has been criticized because the fossils may have been illegally removed from Brazil.
A large predatory dinosaur related to Spinosaurus may have scooped up prey "like a pelican" by extending its lower jaw, European researchers propose in a new study. But the findings have upset some paleontologists who contest that the fossils were illegally taken from Brazil and should be returned to their country of origin.
The dinosaur at the center of the controversy is Irritator challengeri, a member of the family Spinosauridae — a group of bipedal, carnivorous dinosaurs with long, crocodilian-like snouts. The species, which grew to a max length of around 21 feet (6.5 meters), was first described in 1996 from 115 million-year-old fossils uncovered in the Araripe Basin of northeastern Brazil and later shipped to Germany, where they now reside in the Stuttgart Museum of Natural History in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
In the new study, which was published in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica, researchers digitally reconstructed the skull from the I. challengeri specimen housed in Stuttgart and discovered that the species' lower jaw could spread out to the sides, widening the animal's pharynx, the area behind the nose and mouth. This is similar to how a pelican widens its lower beak to scoop up small fish, suggesting that I. challengeri likely fed in the same way, the researchers wrote in a statement.
The new analysis also revealed that, due to its eye placement, I. challengeri would have naturally inclined its snout at a 45-degree angle and been capable of rapid-yet-weak bites. When combined, these features suggest that the snout would have been well suited to quickly scooping prey out of shallow water, the researchers wrote.
I. challengeri's journey from Brazil to Germany is a contentious one. The fossils were unearthed by nonscientific commercial diggers and were sold to the Stuttgart Museum before 1990, when Brazil began restricting scientific exports to other countries. As a result, the study's researchers believed that the fossils legally belonged to the Baden-Württemberg state.
However, an older Brazilian law dating to 1942 states that Brazilian fossils are federal property and cannot be sold, meaning that the fossil was technically stolen by the commercial diggers who exported it, Juan Carlos Cisneros, a paleontologist at the Federal University of Piauí in Brazil who was not involved in the new study, told Live Science in an email. "And buying something stolen does not make you its owner," he said.
Continue reading.
#brazil#germany#politics#science#paleontology#dinosaurs#brazilian politics#german politics#mod nise da silveira#image description in alt
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genderqueer/gender non conforming spanish speakers, i have a question!
i'm a genderqueer native English speaker who's currently learning Spanish and I wanted to know how gender neutral terms are most commonly used in Spanish. this is a nonscientific biased as all hell poll because i'm only sharing it on one platform and sample size means nothing, reblog if you want
(I am not fluent enough in Spanish to translate this poll into Spanish. If anyone wants to translate it to increase accessibility/range, please do! Thank you :])
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Republicans rammed it through because replacing licensed, trained counselors who've had background checks with untrained, unlicensed proselytizers is an emergency somehow, unlike mass shootings.
"Earlier this month, House Democrats also offered amendments to bar proselytizing or attempts to convert students from one religion to another; to require chaplains to receive consent from the parents of school children; and to make schools provide chaplains from any faith or denomination requested by students. All of those amendments failed."
"Worse, opponents say, the bill could deepen the state’s youth mental health crisis by providing students with unproven, lightly supervised and nonscientific counseling that treats common childhood problems, such as anxiety, as “sins” or issues that can merely be prayed away."
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Wrote a silly Vaporeon TF at like 4 am the other night so here it is after a bit of editing \o/
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Hot water sprays against your back, mist hanging in the air around you. Showering always did bring a sense of comfort. Something about the force of the water, the heat, the disconnected pocket of your home that almost feels like stepping into another reality, hidden behind a glass door. Showers were solace.
Of course, they're not all ephemeral relaxation. The new body wash you bought is popped open and squeezed into your hands, viscous soap a brilliant blue in color. It apparently had some kind of "hydrating bead" technology, which was probably nonscientific mumbo jumbo, but it was worth a shot with how dry your skin has been lately. It rubs on and lathers just fine, even though it gets that blue color everywhere. Hopefully it doesn't stain, you think. That would be a pain to clean up.
The first thing you notice is the sound. The loud gush of water and splash across your back is well known to you, but something about it… shifts. Suddenly, it's quieter, less explosive, as if it’s slipping around you rather than bouncing off.
The second thing you notice is the webbing. You try to run your fingers through your hair, but it's impossible to push through. You lower them to look and discover transparent membranes stretched between all your fingers. Not only that, your whole hand is blue–in fact, looking down, all of you is blue.
A tail thrusting out and knocking you forward into the wall is more than enough to alert you to the full scope of the issue. You appear to be becoming quite animalistic quite fast, and panic has frozen you. Your tail slides against tile walls as you try to keep it out of the way, hairy skin becoming fuzzy cornflower blue fur, then flattening to smooth, azure skin. Your toes have claws that catch at the grout between tiles when their pads slide across the floor. In front of your face, a black smudge that is presumably your nose has begun to block more and more of your vision. It's not until you process that you can see over the top of the shower door through the steam vent that you realize that you may even still be miscalculating the situation.
You were most definitely growing. Your more-than-adequate knowledge of a certain franchise means you can easily identify yourself as a Pokemon—more specifically, a Vaporeon. You can feel your now-permeable skin soaking up the water. It’s almost like it’s passing *through* you. The weight settles across curves of your body, hips widening, hind paws splayed out. It's exceptionally disorienting as you attempt to get used to the new body, water-filled proportions force it to alter its course even as the strange transformation continues.
With all this going on, you can’t remember to do the one important thing: turn off the shower. Vaporeons were almost entirely water, and the stream from the shower head was very quickly adding itself to your body. Your tail grows longer across the floor; your head, then shoulders bang into the ceiling; you probably can’t even fit straight through the door anymore. There’s no way to stop it from continuing to make your body grow, swelling you bigger and bigger inside of this suddenly claustrophobic box of a room.
The door nearly bursts off its hinges, and you pop out of the shower, smooth skin sliding straight off the walls and firing you out like a greased cork. There’s a single moment, hanging in the air, that you spot yourself in the mirror. A snout dominates your face, white frill beneath it wreathing your neck, and your eyes have become an iridescent, almost solid black. The moment ends when you slap against the floor like a wet fish, coil after coil of tail piling out after you and landing in a heap on top of your back and legs. Fortunately, being mostly water, the impact doesn’t hurt, but it still stuns you. Behind, the shower continues to run, finned tail brushing through the flowing water and signaling more inconveniences to come.
Perhaps you shouldn't have tried the extra strength pet wash on yourself, after all…
#dawdling dragons#vaporeon#tf#transformation#microfiction#don't expect this kind of thing super often but if people like it I'd be down to post more
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rationalists looking at philosophy: psh i dont believe in that nonscientific metaphysical nonsense
rationalists looking at systematized thought: *pog*
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FNaF 4's Fredbear Plush is not Possessed
Ever since The Silver Eyes (which was being written since FNaF 3 came out) it's been well-established that emotional bonds are what tie spirits to objects, and Fazbear Frights repeatedly shows this.
I'm convinced that agony has a greater energetic radius and power than any other emotion. I have done numerous experiments to measure, capture, contain, and study the leftover emotion embedded into objects that were near a tragedy. My work is focused on the hypothesis that you can take a saturation of energy, add any kind of intelligence--even an artificial one--and they will combine together to transmute the energy of emotion into the energy of physical action. This, I believe, is what explains what people call 'haunted' objects.
-Dr. Phineas Taggart
Possession requires an emotional attachment. William was emotionally attached to the Spring Bonnie suit he got trapped in. The June 26th victims had emotional attachments to the Fazbear characters whose animatronics they were stuffed into. But a random Freddy's employee dying in a spring-lock suit doesn't result in possession because those employees don't care.
There's two main contenders for who would possess the plushie: Cassidy and Charlie. And neither of them have any emotional attachment to the plushie.
Possession is also implied to require something else: metal.
In nonscientific terms, [remnant is] like the metal is haunted. It’s more complicated than that, of course, but it’s similar to the way that water conducts electricity. Remnant is the mixing of the tangible with the intangible, of memory with the present. The people and things that are lost—it makes them almost real again.
-Dr. Veinerfarten Talbert
Although the plushies are implied to have cameras in them, I wouldn't say there's a significant amount of metal to possess, and I certainly don't think it was canon as of FNaF 4's release, and therefore would be impossible to deduce.
There's really no way for Cassidy or Charlie's remnant to be transferred from their respective animatronics to the Fredbear plush, either. If this is a case of possession, this is a case of a spirit inhabiting one object deciding "Hey, I'd like to inhabit this other object for a second to talk to this child, and then I'll go back to my original object," unless there's some physical transfer of metal between the Fredbear plush and Fredbear animatronic or Puppet.
The spirit follows the flesh, it would seem, and also the pain.
-William Afton
So, in conclusion, the FNaF 4 plushie isn't possessed.
What is possible is that (a) Cassidy is taking the form of a plushie, specifically one that does have a physical counterpart, as she is able to take Withered form in FNaF 2, or (b) that the Bite Victim's agony poured into the object and he was able to speak with it, which, at the time of FNaF 4's lore, would've been as simple as it being the child's imagination and trauma.
But it is not possible, given any precedent or rule of possession in FNaF history, for the Fredbear plush to be possessed.
#five nights at freddy's#five nights at freddy's lore#fnaf#fnaf lore#fnaf theory#fnaf theories#five nights at freddy's theory#five nights at freddy's theories#fnaf 4#fnaf 4 theories#fredbear#fredbear plush#psychic friend fredbear#fazbear frights#dr talbert#dr phineas taggart#william afton#fnaf cassidy
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Is it weird I have more respect for internal parasites than external ones? On an emotional irrational, nonscientific level?
Internal are like explorers or survivalists, external most I can personify as doing “queen shit” by burrowing into skin and having a lot of male callers
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wanna hear my conspiracy theory
I mean sure we all know the government puts profits over people & the information age has led to a saturation of true & false claims etc etc but I think that the US certainly absolutely knows that having soybean oil in everything & cooking exclusively with veggie oil in general is terrible for the human ecosystem & on top of that there are so many things required to be added to premade food to make it "shelf stable" & tons of them are terrible for your body as well but I think personally that the result of this is similar to the lead in gasoline issue we had in the past which caused aggression, health problems, etc.
I think to some degree food additives/excess processed plant oils effects everyone, some only somewhat & others quite a lot lot. Here is my anecdotal, nonscientific evidence:
Due to my being extremely sensitive to legumes, of which soybean oil is in everything, we mainly eat the food we cook at home (which is a privilege, as I work hybrid & my partner works from home). 3 meals a day, sometimes with store-bought 3-ingredient bagels, but overall we eat what we cook. Never fast food, because I simply can't have it, and rarely we go out to eat. This means that for 2, 3 week stretches we are eating ONLY the food we buy and cook--organic meats, home-made bread, organic veggies, some of which are home-grown, depending on the season, eggs, bacon, etc. We also don't drink alcohol frequently.
During these stretches, we don't have any problems. We go to bed easily, we wake up rested, we don't feel overwhelmed or irritable regardless of how busy work is or what all we have to do, our digestion works fine, everything functions as one would expect.
Friends & family have come to stay for a week or more, eating only what my partner cooks, & report feeling more rested & rejuvenated than they are when they are home, even the friends who come to visit and work remote the whole time. My cousin reported better digestion, was more at ease, outgoing, and less tense than he is when he is responsible for his own meals (namely, cinnamon rolls, chef boy whatever, fast food).
Lastly, now after years of eating like this, when my partner does get a wild hair & eats fast food, about half the time he ends up feeling lethargic, irritable, easily overwhelmed, sleeps poorly, experiences brain fog, & has digestion upset. I can tell when he's gone out for lunch while I'm at work bc when I get home he will be noticeably on edge, like I am when I eat something with a legume in it.
I don't think the government cares because people who are irritable, quick to anger, exhausted, etc are easier to sell to, easier to rope into arguments which break up coordinated efforts to change policy, people who are sick make money for prescription providers, people with chronic, low-level inflammation buy into diets & routines & etc etc etc.
So so so many people report alleviated health issues when traveling abroad, I experienced the same when I ate out every day, every meal over there & experienced NO issues. My big conspiracy theory is that food in America is toxic, the government knows, & nobody cares bc it makes money.
I leave you with this meme:
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top 5 nonfiction books! (nonscientific)
that's a tricky one...
what if? by randall munroe. you heard the man: what if???
the bible. dunno if this technically counts as nonfiction but i've spent too much time reading about bible controversies that it at least deserves a shoutout
latin alive: the survival of latin in english and the romance languages by joseph solodow. fascinating read
tudor england: a history by lucy wooding
the qi book of general ignorance by john lloyd
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“Magic is not superstition; magic is the nature of the world. The world is not logical or rational, it is magic. Everything is closely related. […] [A]ll events are aligned, united; time is not linear, the effects are sometimes produced before the causes; there are mysteries. Seventy percent of the world cannot understand it, like the chimpanzee does not understand 90 percent of the world. We have a lot to learn. Reality is miraculous, it is magic. It obeys nonscientific principles. Reality is not scientific.” -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Amusing Amazon review of the moment: Alejandro Jodorowsky's "Manual of Psychomagic" is an incredibly enlightening journey through the mind of a psychopath. The various ritual performances described in this quasi-autobiography convey the author's deeply traumatized psyche, his deep-seated issues with authority figures and women, and his fascination with death and bloodshed. Dark, twisted, and terribly disturbing, this macabre manual leaves readers distraught, wondering just how many of these perverse rituals the author himself has performed and whether they are an indication of even darker acts. This book is an excellent guide for students studying psychology or criminology, brilliantly and painstakingly outlining the mind's descent into madness.
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EKMAN: As a scientist, I cannot ignore what I experienced. It is not that I had not earlier tried other approaches to ameliorate my problems with anger. Three times in my life I was a patient in psychoanalysis, in part to try to deal with this terrible problem of anger. Yet, no change.
DALAI LAMA: Hmm.
EKMAN: I think the change that occurred within me started with that physical sensation, whatever it was. I think that what I experienced was—a nonscientific term—“goodness.” Every one of the other eight people I interviewed said they felt goodness; they felt it radiating and felt the same kind of warmth that I did. I have no idea what it is or how it happens, but it is not in my imagination. Though we do not have the tools to understand it, that does not mean it does not exist.
Dalai Lama Ekman Emotional Awareness
w: story of personal transformation. So great <3<3<3
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