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The paper was published last month https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07848-5

But I suspect this was not a new discovery as much as a new expansion of the information.

It’s both

For anyone coming along and not trusting the title, it is misleading.

Infrared is one of the things mosquitoes use to find a target.

They still use CO 2 detection as part of their methods, this is in addition to, not instead of.

Edit: the relevant section of text

*Each cue on its own – CO2 , odor, or infrared – failed to pique the mosquitoes’ interest. But the insect’s apparent thirst for blood increased twofold when a setup with just CO2 and odor had the infrared factor added.

“Any single cue alone doesn’t stimulate host-seeking activity. It’s only in the context of other cues, such as elevated CO2 and human odor that IR makes a difference,” says UCSB neurobiologist Craig Montell.

The team also confirmed the mosquitoes’ infrared sensors lie in their antennae, where they have a temperature-sensitive protein, TRPA1. When the team removed the gene for this protein, mosquitos were unable to detect infrared.*

In other words, they still use the previously known ways to find a meal, and this is how they work up close. That’s over simplified, but it’s the important part because it gives info on how to reduce being “bitten”. Loose clothing that covers the extremities diffuses the heat, making us “look” like we aren’t the right kind of target wherever the IR is spread out wrong to their antennae.

The article is actually a really good one, but the title is crap

Edit 2: the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07848-5

Fucking weebs.

Man, a minigun that shoots knives would be awesome.

You know, I ain’t mad.

Dude was crazy. Did something horrible (regardless of the horrible person he directly targeted, and he did harm two other people). Was in supervision and treatment for decades.

Why the fuck should anyone care if he’s trying to do something with what’s left of his life? If he had gone to jail, I’d say he served his time, and that’s the end of it.

He Was in supervised release at first, and hasn’t caused any trouble since.

Fuck it, let the man have a life. If we can’t give someone the chance to have changed after over thirty years, we’re all fucked. I’m not the same man I was at 25. I’m not the same man I was at 40. Mind you, I didn’t try to kill a president, but I was deep enough in the PTSD cycle that I’m kind of amazed I didn’t try something that insane. Gods know that I did my own dance with self destructive shit, and that included chasing more trauma sometimes.

Give people a chance to be better.

If they do it that way, I’d watch it, and I’ve never played Minecraft.

I’m taking a turn here, off the original topic a little, but not a true subject change or tangent.

There’s a ton of history behind all the terminology around terms like this. And they’re all inherently racist. They aren’t, however slurs (currently, one could debate the past) in the few places they are used. They’re too archaic to be slurs in English, they just aren’t used.

Griffe, in specific was more of a French colonies thing, with other terms being used elsewhere.

Now, the point of all this is to get back to why the term is racist in the first place.

All the terms, mulatto, quateron (or quadroon), octoroon, metis, mamelouk, whatever; they are all about how much black is in the person, how much African heritage they have. Kinda obvious, but it’s never about how much white they have. The French colonies has specific terminology for someone that’s 1/64 black. Think about that. Out of all their ancestors, one is black, and that makes them black, with some white blood, separate from people that looked exactly the same.

That whole “one drop” mentality is why they’re all racist, horrible terminology, even though they aren’t used as insults in English. They weren’t really used as insults back in the slave era either, just as yet another way to keep the boot on necks. The terms were used among free people of color too, which shows just how effective that boot of language really was.

Now, the terminology varied a lot because it came from multiple languages. Spanish, French, Portuguese and English. Where you were determined what terms were in use, originally, but as colonies shifted hands, slavers intermingled,and borders moved, things got mixed around some. Here in the American southeast, you see even more mingling of the terms, with the dominant ones shifting over time in various locations.

But, and this is actually relevant, the U.S. isn’t the only place this kind of thinking existed, and some of the terms are slurs in other places and languages.

Griffe isn’t a slur anywhere I’m aware of, but “sambo” is, and it was another word for the same 3/4 African ancestry. Afaik, it isn’t a common slur, big there are places in South and Central America where it’s used as one.

However, there are also places in South and Central America where mulatto, or mulatta are used with pride.

Now, why am I writing this? It’s not just a historical curiosity, some vestigial words lingering in dictionaries. There was an entire set of jargon used as a tool of dominance and oppression. The thinking behind it still lingers everywhere that European imperialism existed (so, essentially everywhere across the world). Australia even had the same or similar terms for people with aboriginal ancestry.

The stain of slavery, specifically the African slave trade, is embedded across the world. We forget sometimes, because the terminology of oppression changed, that we still think that way. It takes effort for some of us to first realize that we default to thinking of anyone with mixed African heritage as black first, as the black being mixed into the other “race”. And eliminating that way of thinking is even more work.

But it’s work we need to do. As individuals, as nations, as a species, we need to understand that the systemic racism isn’t just about laws and official biases. It’s about the lingering, pernicious taint in how people think about race as a whole.

Yup, same here.

What’s bad is that some of my family still like to get all pissy when I tell them to gtfo when they come to me for an answer after they’ve wasted my time by arguing over things they had come to me for in the past.

Don’t ask me your random crap, wait for me to give a good answer, then argue with me. Even if I was wrong, why the hell did you come up me in the first place if you didn’t think I knew what you were asking about?

Like you, if I don’t know, I say I don’t know. And I’ll be clear about any gaps or uncertainty. More rigorously than I do online because idgaf about random online opinions, and I still usually follow those rules online.

For a couple of years, I would tell my sister that I’m not her private google after she made a habit of wasting my time asking things and then arguing things that she didn’t know in the first place, and arguing wrong things. Just got tired of being taken for granted.

Mind you, if she’d heard the answer and just asked more questions, discussing the matter, it would be fine. But saying things as utterly infuriating as “but it said on facebook”, and “I don’t believe you” pushed me to my patience limit lol. Like, what? If you didn’t think I was reliable after the hundreds of things I was right about before, why did you even ask?

Leg length. Or total lack of cloth

But are we talking in underwear, or in pajamas? Totally different levels there

As strong as a big guy, yes.

You aren’t going to pack as much muscle on someone that’s 5 feet tall as you will on someone 5’8".

Also, if you use muscle mass as the metric for “tiny”, as in thin, then decidedly not, since that’s the fundamental requirement for strength, muscle mass. A “big” woman is stronger than a “tiny” woman.

It’s too basic.

No folders, no ability to freely arrange things, so your app drawer is everything, and unorganized. Same with the home screen.

Which, I guess that might actually work for an eink device now that I think about it (just bought a poke 5 myself), particularly one that’s only going to be used as an ereader rather than a general purpose tablet with an eink screen.

There’s just a minimum degree of organization that becomes a problem when it isn’t there, and the device needs to be easy to use. But, yeah, I think you may have just countered my “useless” opinion. It might well be perfect for that use case, both in its bare minimum features, and how lightweight it is.

Apparently nobody has heard the story of otto titsling

That’s a long way away from being useful.

Edit: opinion changed, as per the conversation below. I’d say limited use, but definitely viable for those use cases

Yeah, I gotta echo the question of just how bloody tall you are. That’s a reasonable distance from the front of that toilet to the wall for anyone in the 6 foot tall area.

But, even then, what is it that makes you lean so far forward while standing that you’d hit your head on a wall even half that distance? There are things that would make it a problem to have a wall too close, I’m just amazed that anyone under about 8 foot tall would run into trouble even if it was closer, and they had some kind if spinal fusion or disability involved. I’m not saying it isn’t possible, I’m really curious what it could be, if that’s why this is a problem.

There’s no better day than a day with puppy piles.

I got stories about puppy piles. Boring stories because they’re all just me being licked for a half hour, but they’re still top tier memories lol.

That last part isn’t true.

You can’t ignore the effects of artificial sweeteners on insulin levels and the fallout from that.

Truth is that drinking over sweetened water is just not healthy at all, it’s a matter of picking what problems you want to get from them

Some people just aren’t adventurous eaters

I’ve seen arguments made that if things got going well enough, the rate of loss would be negligible enough to be replaceable by new materials bright in via asteroids, if things ever get that far in the first place.

However, the same arguments said that the real problem with the lack of magnetic field is the lack of protection given for pretty much anything the sun sends that way

Mind your, these arguments were made the same way both of these comments have been, just random internet people talking, so take it with a grain of Martian salt