buffing_lecturer

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I'm pretty sure they sometimes send a sacrificial ant or two out at night to seal up an entrance from the outside.

on [meme] Anon likes bikes · c/fuckcars · 8 pts · 55d

This is so cool. Why do I intuitively expect the efficiency should increase with the Y axis instead through? It feels somewhat upside down?

The museum grew out of an interest in penises that began during Sigurður's childhood when he was given a cattle whip made from a bull's penis.

In July 2011, the museum obtained its first human penis, one of many promised by would-be donors. Its detachment from the donor's body did not go according to plan and it was reduced to a greyish-brown shriveled mass that was pickled in a jar of formalin.

The collection also features phallic art and crafts such as lampshades made from the scrotums of bulls.

on Pseudopupil · c/wikipedia · 10 pts · 97d

In the compound eye of invertebrates such as insects and crustaceans, the pseudopupil appears as a dark spot which moves across the eye as the animal is rotated. This occurs because the ommatidia that one observes "head-on" (along their optical axes) absorb the incident light, while those to one side reflect it. The pseudopupil therefore reveals which ommatidia are aligned with the axis along which the observer is viewing.

Honestly a more interesting answer than I was expecting. I thought it was going to be a similar thing to the fake eyes some animals have.

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 4 pts · 100d

I do prefer people taking shoes off at the door.

on Too real · c/programmer_humor · 9 pts · 101d

I mean maybe. But one is a deterministic way to do the exact same thing, the other is a nondeterministic way to maybe do a similar thing.