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Stupid Take.
Stupid take.
And it's got that condescending tone of 'oh, how dare you!!! Jail for you as I'm a internet warrior!!! I know what I'm talking about!!!'. (I am aware I didn't put this in quotation marks. That's because it doesn't deserve quotation marks.)
A major can be so many things. What do you do with a film major? Sometimes you make films. Sometimes you make animated films, be a screen editor, sound producer, go onto to get a history PhD in cinematic, be a video editor, make documentaries, or even go straight back into academics as a film teacher.
Ask people about themselves! College is tough and people will love it if you ask the most basic follow up question of "What are you going to do with that?".
I'm a bio-chem major. I could go be a doctor, lawyer, or (what most people at my college think until we ask this one incredibly simple question!) drug discovery. I am doing none of those. I'm going to go work for NASA and study human genetic engineering.
(Just read the tags. Guys a poli-sci. No wonder they hate it. They have no plans and a useless* major, lol.)
*Technically not useless as it can be cool. Technically. Down there with business majors.
I really wish people understood that unless you are someone's parent, you don't need to be questioning the practicality of their life decisions. When someone tells you their major, you should say "oh, that sounds cool!" Do NOT ask them what they're "planning on doing with that." It may be an innocent question, but it comes across as super patronizing and just makes them anxious. Maybe they don't know yet. Maybe they've already planned it out extensively and don't want to go over it with you, their dentist. Maybe they don't plan their entire life around getting rich!
It's especially bad when the major in question is extremely self-explanatory. My sister majored in film and so many people asked her what she was going to "do with it." Oh, I'm going to be a doctor! OBVIOUSLY MAKE FILMS, BECKY. They didn't ask because they were curious about her plans, they asked because they wanted to know how she would make money. It was like they thought it hadn't occurred to her that it would be difficult. It's condescending as hell. I'm just so sick of random people thinking it's their right to question and judge other peoples' lives. It's not that hard to mind your own business.
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Scientific Paper Review: Insects may or may not be sentient??
Reading this (https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/epdf/10.3920/JIFF2022.0041?role=tab) paper about welfare when farming black soldier flies (published 2023) with the main author being Meghan Barret, who is a super duper cool female scientist that believes strongly in insect welfare (e-portfolio link here: http://meghan-barrett.com/about-me/), and I'm astonished!
Introduction starts off with a quick overview of what the paper is getting into and then dives into background history. I love reading scientific papers simply because there is so much cool stuff to learn. Animal welfare is dependent upon how the animal views how it's doing. A pampered lap dog with depression still has depression. A sad bug living in a super duper cool vivarium (which are way hard to set up) is still sad.
Insects in science may or may not be sentient. How do you define sentient? Where do you draw the line of responding to making decisions? Wild! If insects are sentient we should, of course, treat them like we are. If they aren't how do we determine welfare for something that's not sentient. This isn't about philosophy though so we're continuing on.
There is a model called the five freedoms model. The paper said it best so I'm quoting them here, "According to that influential model of animals’ interests (Brambell, 1965), animals ought to kept in ways that keep them free: (1) from hunger and thirst; (2) from discomfort; (3) from pain, injury, and disease; (4) to express normal behaviour; and (5) from fear and distress.".
From here the introduction continues to go on to explain that it's hard to tell when an insect is doing or has this stuff. If a pet cat decides to be a picky eater, is the owner a bad owner for not keeping them free from hunger and thirst or is the cat being picky? Again though! Not hear for philosophy or ethics that's been discussed a hundred times before.
What can be determined though is if something kills an insect it is bad. If it increases mortality, like a parasite would, it is bad. Good thing is that factors between farmed invertabra (aka bugs) is pretty universal. Another good news is we know a lot about the biology of the black soldier fly! They have six larva stages.
That concludes this part of the post! More coming soon.
Ocean
go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish
Do NOT release pets into the wilderness even if, like axolotl's, they will be dead soon due to not being good at enviromental changes!!
Toxic yaoi, not necessarily a ship but toxic af
I spend too much time doing this lol
Based on the pages of journal 3
Word of the day is: Sclerotisation!
Sclerotisation is the process of making the rigid shell of sclerotin in an insect's shell.
Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerotization
Some fun facts about it's Wikipedia history is that the page was originally a redirect page until 26 Febeurary 2022 and only mentioned sclerotin in 11 July 2022. To clarify the page was created 31 May 2006.
The majority of edits are by user Smokefoot who seems really cool! Check out their stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smokefoot