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  • wia@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzLaTeX Master Race
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    1 month ago

    Lay tex.

    Why bother to fit your acronym to latex otherwise. ConTexT is another one. Would be silly otherwise.

    The creator might promote saying tech, but that shouldn’t matter since they Internet ignores the creator of the gif format and swears on ghif instead of the desired jiff…




  • wia@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzHats
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    2 months ago

    Plastic is pretty stable. Since this is an aquarium it isn’t get direct sunlight at a rate to make the plastic degrade to the point of polluting the water.

    Also, since it’s an aquarium, the are already many kinds of plastics involved. The pumps, tubing, filters, and so on all contain plastic that would have a heater likelihood of degrade sure to mechanical action.









  • wia@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzGrass is Greener
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    3 months ago

    Biologist here, the body itself isn’t what grows the “greener grass”. It’s just the start of a long biological process that will lead to ecological growth.

    A tree isn’t going to feed directly off of the body. But the decay process will provide nutrients to the tree. We’re talking about insects and fungus at various levels of the process here. You can look up things like the Trophic Levels and Nutrient Cycles for more details on this whole process.

    TLDR would be that the corpse floods the area with nutrients and maybe even kills off the plants with over abundance of nitrogen, but then fungus and bugs move in, then bigger bugs and small animals, and so on and then better plant systems. It’s kind of neat.




  • wia@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzKnow the difference!!!
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    4 months ago

    Usually what happens is whoever needs to know has their own specific way of determining the thing.

    As a wildlife biologist, the meme description is pretty good and would suffice for just about anything I need. The present or recent past circumstances are the most important to my work.

    If I were interested in the geology, or say ground water, earth studiesor, or even the more distant past then this definition you share becomes more useful.

    There are going to be even more criteria that apply for different groups, and even sometimes none of these definitions we’ve seen would matter because you only care if it sustains a specific species or something even less obvious.