I’ve never held with the idea that one has to literally be furry to be a furry. It’s an umbrella term. (But by all means, make the fuzzy mantids!)

Yes. It’s not too unusual for that sort of thing to happen. Feverfew and lungwort are plants named after their medicinal uses, and the tea plant and rubber tree are named for what they produce. Wheat means white, referring to the ground flour.

A lot of things might have had other names before a use was discovered, or they just might not have been named by anyone yet. I think most plants have probably had lots of different regional names within the same language. Flowers seem to collect a lot of names; I think they make us poetic because they tended to interact with human culture in many ways.

T-Rex didn’t become famous until after Jurassic Park.

Really? I thought everyone knew T-rex when I was a kid. The only pick for Land Before Time I thought was weird was Duckie because I’m still not 100% sure what she is despite having looked it up a few times. The rest of the cast are what I’d consider your classic dinosaurs. But it’s hard to know what other people know when you’re an autistic kid.

All birds today are actually coelurosauria dinosaurs, a group of theropods (T-rex and raptor-shape dinosaurs) who are thought to have all had feathers for warmth, show, and/or gliding and flight. I know we have evidence that some other theropods had feathers (or at least hairy stuff), but I don’t know whether the rest of them are lacking evidence of feathers or whether we have evidence against them having feathers.

I would also love such a book, preferably with lots of pictures.

While the look is based in old misconceptions of dinosaur biology, the Jurassic Park dinos lacking feathers actually works really well for the story. They were never meant to be real dinosaurs. They’re just theme park attractions, so of course they look how the customers expect them to. Just like how most of them aren’t even from the Jurassic period.

Oh yeah, that’s a good one. The best I had was like transportation, like a bus pass or bike parts? Maybe the “10% student discount” is an item under the category of “transaction discount”, and there’s lots of different ones that all show up like that on the receipts.

Transubstantiation? Transgression? Transcendent? Do they give you a 10% discount if you do some light transmogrification work for them on the side?

I never thought about using other features like stickers like that. Thanks for sharing your technique!

Which app lets you cut and paste?

It could have a negative connotation. One could be a genuine wise man or essentially a snake oil salesman, so the word could be applied in both ways. It’s like how we use “genius” as an insult; we’re using the word in an ironic and sarcastic way.

Here is a collection of various uses throughout history:

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/wizard_n?tab=meaning_and_use

It’s not “too” something; it’s just being strong (hardy) or remarkable in that trait. A lot of sources list it as derogatory, but it isn’t so in all instances of use.

A wizard is not too wise, but very wise. Renard or Reinhardt is someone who gives good advice or makes good decisions.

The “must” in mustard is juice and pulp which you intend to ferment, because grape must was an ingredient. There’s a lot of debate over whether the “ard” is the one in this post or ardens (burning).

I’m on Summit and it’s obvious from your post title and screenshot in my feed that this will be you presenting some kind of website or software. When clicked, the actual thread has your main post written out nicely.

I think if a filter like what’s described is on its way, it’s very poorly thought-out. Many interesting topics will include images; an album cover when discussing a band, your cat when asking for advice about said cat, etc. It’s also fairly normal on Lemmy to add alt-text of images as plain text in the main post, so a filter would either include such posts as not image-only or exclude posts like yours. Seems like a bad system. I should think it’s better for users to block meme comms.

Setting aside that Barbara is choosing to keep her US citizenship, renouncing it is actually very expensive. You have to travel to specific embassies, pay to have your US taxes current, and pay a fee over 2000USD which you do not get back if they deny you. You also need valid US identifying documents, which come with their own fees and travel costs. I’m not sure that trans people’s documents would be accepted any longer due to being “inaccurate”, but I don’t know the specifics to say for sure.

The US government made a deal with OpenAI.

(I wonder why it got deleted…?)

The Mozilla Foundation is non-profit, but the Mozilla Corporation is for-profit.

Isn’t the person who owns the rights despite nothing being owned the one doing the hoarding?

Interesting to read these two topics back-to-back.

https://lemmy.world/post/43668386

I remember hearing something like it’s difficult to impossible for foreign doctors to get jobs in Canada. Is that why? The plan is to keep out or at least oppress Indians?

Here’s an alternative I found in another thread:

https://ghostarchive.org/

How did we get rid of Nazis the first time?