RotSteinFinke

joined 11 months ago
[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

I'm betting on brown

[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

The sperm and the egg would contain different copies of the chromosomes. The cell randomly divides its chromosomes when it becomes an egg or sperm. When they merge, two halves of a genome form a full one again. But some chromosomes would be there as doubles, others would be lost. The effect would be the same as incest. Mutations that would be hidden in a healthy cell would emerge.

[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

No, it is something different. Cloning creates a another being with the exact same DNA. This would allow people, who can't produce viable sperm/egg cells, to reproduce with their partner. First patients would be infertile men and women.

[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did, and I am.

[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago

In my experience, a lot of these politics are purely performative. Politicians get elected on the promise of 'reducing regulations' to 'release the economy', without any connection to reality. In office they than have to do something that looks like the thing they fought for. We've seen the same after Brexit. The 'bad and idiotic' EU regulations were dropped and untreated sewage was let into the sea.

[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That was the ending to the episode where they have to give up the town because of all the garbage and pollution, and just move Springfield a few miles to a new place. But this doesn't feel like it's this. I just can't put my finger on it...

[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's even more confusing: Emojis were invented in Japan, which adds another layer of cultural differences. Holding your hands flat against each other is a common sign for prayer in Christianity, but in Japan it is a commen gesture for giving thanks. Hence the "official" meaning: Thank you

[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 8 points 7 months ago

Maybe they mean lupus? I think wolfes were already extinct in the 1600s on the British isles.

[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Principal Skinner and Miss Krababel where in the closet together. And he had a thousand hands, like Vishnu. And they were all busy.

[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's why the dwarfs where helping him with his decision.

[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 16 points 11 months ago

The numbers were code for emperor Nero. If you assign every letter in the alphabet a number based on the alphabetical order and add up the values for the name, you get 666. But only if you use the Greek name NERON CAESAR, in Latin, he would be NERO CAESAR, and the missing N gives you only 616. So some scribes in the western part of the empire would calculate in their head and write down 616. So we got two versions of the number going around in manuscripts from the time.

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