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  • Knedliky@discuss.tchncs.detoScience Memes@mander.xyzhats
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    6 months ago

    I thought have bought this was internet fake. It’s not:

    Uraba lugens is nicknamed the mad hatterpillar because of its distinctive exoskeletal feature.[4] Every time it sheds the head portion of its exoskeleton, the exoskeleton stays attached to its body. Over time, developing through its life span, the head grows bigger and sheds increasingly larger exoskeleton shells, which build upon each other.[5]

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  • Very much agree with the first two paragraphs, very much disagree with the third paragraph. “Exceptionally bad”?! Compared to what? I’d say that one or two open world games of the last ten years really stand out but Cyberpunk is comparable to the average. And I would guess it’s quite enjoyable if you already enjoy the cyberpunk genre. Anecdotally, the side quests and side characters seem to elicit very divergent appreciations.



  • 5 pages?!??! In my discipline, we spend five pages just kissing reviewer 2’s behind and begging people to take an interest. Then we spend 20 pages citing everyone and their adviser and their adviser’s second cousin on the off chance that they’re married to reviewer 2. Then you get a copy-paste of the documentation of one of the five datasets that everyone uses.





  • The Wall was to keep its own people from emigrating. The country was losing so many people to emigration during the fifties, especially young people, especially educated people, that it decided to basically imprison the rest (gee I wonder why Reisefreiheit was one of the big demands of the 1989 protests). The Stasi kept tabs on people in order to suppress any sort of civil society independent of or critical of the party. If you wondered aloud whether the elections were fair or if economic policy was in the best interest of all and your teacher/college roommate/neighbor informed on you, you could be barred from high school/college/a job or end up in prison (with amenities such as solitary, no light, ankle deep cold water). Oh and your partner too and your children. Etc. Also, June 1953.