However, F. drudeana belongs to a lineage from the southern Caspian Sea region, with no known connection to Eastern Libya.

A criticism of this hypothesis centers on geographic ranges: silphium grew in North Africa while F. drudeana is native to Turkey. A 2018 study resolved F. drudeana as a narrowly endemic species restricted to a tiny range in Turkey’s Adana and Kayseri Provinces, descended from Central Asian Ferula, and having no connection to North Africa. All previously studied North African Ferula belong to a well-distinct and monophyletic group containing the widespread Ferula communis and its more localized relatives from the Western and Central Mediterranean; there is no indication that any other lineage of Ferula ever occurred west of the Aegean/Black Sea region. Miski’s 2021 paper does not address evidence for F. drudeana having originated in the southern Caspian Sea region.

Another criticism focuses on the 2021 paper’s methodology, which does not account for observations about Ferula which were published in 2008. Morphological studies could misleadingly suggest a relationship with silphium, as the external appearance of Ferula varies highly within clades: individuals within the Ferula genus often resemble unrelated species rather than closely related species. Similarly, evidence in the form of folk medicine uses is — at best — an equivocal indicator.

Can’t watch the video right now, what does Ohanian have to do with New Digg?

That is a problem.

/s?

That’s really unfortunate. Does the platform they’re on not have the “block instance/domain” feature?

And they still left the fediverse?

Did they know about the idea of different instances, and each one having their own set of rules and missions?

I actually have a pretty high opinion of PugJesus otherwise…

After thinking about this a little bit more: can we just only exclude anything related to xenogenders, no matter the instance? or even just the topic when coming from blahaj? There could be actual moderation issues on blahaj, as seen with 196’s fiascos.

In fact I thought this was already a rule.

power

A dogwhistle is something that’s been used so much by a certain group (usually of hatred) that it’s gained the suggestive connotation of a bunch of arguments or a certain belief. It’s like saying black people like eating watermelons. Wikipedia describes it as “the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition”. That’s the status the “attack helicopter” identification has gained, as it’s frequently used by bigots to mock the concept of identifying as a (different) gender.

YDI

1. As said below, this was an instance ban, which Lemmy shows a bit weirdly.
2. Come on. It’s just a pronoun. All the arguments for respecting neopronouns apply here, and blahaj accepts and asks all to respect neopronouns.
3. Saying “I identify as <my own name>” is not anywhere close to the attack helicopter dogwhistle.
4. Say drag did identify as a dragon. Gender is a construct anyway. How is someone identifying as what they make of a gender any different from someone identifying as neutrois or andersatyr?
5. You died on this hill, and these are the instance rules.
6. I’m pretty sure there was a rule here saying “stop posting about dragonfucker”?

While I also hate Wikiwand, its corporatism, and its “features”, I’m confused about the last part. They’re bad because they were founded by Israelis?

I made a game where you battle the NSA and other stuff once

that’s effectively be a more low-level reskin of whatever browser engine your system bundles, which would be chromium’s on non-apple systems

The DuckDuckGo browser and search engine have been free to use since day one. We make money from privacy-respecting ads, not by exploiting your data. When you search for “car” we show you a car ad — it’s that simple.

i fw that tbh

it’s not like anyone who cares hasn’t pulled up stakes tbh

am i the only one who thought it was nyuh-inks

nyuh-inks

I hear NSA is creating an eight-dimensional KOSANET that scrapes the information from top-secret backdoors in your IDEs to be sent to this marvelous website’s server-side caching.