Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

khalid_sl said:

Creationist PhD's don't need to publish papers. All their work is already published in the Bible! Checkmate atheists.

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Luminati_sl said:

Just out of curiosity. If I'm really as dumb as you idiots think I am, how am I able to play poker professionally and make more money at it than any of you do with your slave jobs? Poker requires a very high level of intelligence in multiple areas. Mathematics. Logic. Psychology. It also requires a great deal of patience and discipline. I guarantee almost none of you could play poker professionally even if you actually tried your hardest to do so. You simply aren't intelligent enough to do it otherwise you most likely would be.

Not only am I a master at poker but I was also one of the highest ranked league of legends players in the US, in the top 1% out of several million players. League requires a high level of intelligence to be that successful at it. I'm also one of the highest rated magic the gathering online players in the world, another game that requires a great deal of intelligence.

It honestly doesn't make sense. If I'm really as dumb as you guys think I am, how am I able to see so incredibly successful at just about everything I do? Especially at things which requires high levels of intelligence to be successful at? Am I just lucky all the time? I mean don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I'm right about everything just because I'm good at games that require high levels of intelligence but it just doesn't make any sense that I am as successful as I am if I truly am as dumb as you all think I am.

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khalid_sl said:

Unless you are one of the very top poker players in the world, making a career playing poker is a tremendous grind. It doesn't pay remotely what you could get spending that time doing something else in another field. Lumie is not raining in cash, he is probably living on the equivalent of minimum wage grinding out fuckloads of hands simultaneously.

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Sterling_sl said:

I did it for years, don't anymore though. It is a grind, multiple tables, playing 350-400 hands an hour. It can pay a good deal more than minimum wage, but it's hardly glamorous.

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Deer aren't the slim, graceful vegans we thought they were. Scientists using field cameras have caught deer preying on nestling song birds. And it's not just deer. Herbivores the world over may be supplementing their diets.

When researchers in North Dakota set up "nest cams" over the nests of song birds, they expected to see a lot of nestlings and eggs get taken by ground squirrels, foxes, and badgers. Squirrels hit thirteen nests, but other meat-eaters made a poor showing. Foxes and weasels only took one nest each. Know what fearsome animal out-did either of those two sleek, resourceful predators?

White-tailed deer.

These supposed herbivores placidly ate living nestlings right out of the nest. And if you're thinking that it must be a mistake, that the deer were chewing their way through some vegetation and happened to get a mouthful of bird, think again. Up in Canada, a group of ornithologists were studying adult birds. In order to examine them closely, the researchers used "mist-nets." These nets, usually draped between trees, are designed to trap birds or bats gently so they could be collected, studied, and released. When a herd of deer came by, they deer walked up to the struggling birds and ate them alive, right out of the nets.

This behavior is not limited to one species or one continent. Last year, a farmer in India made a video of a cow eating a recently-hatched chick. Some scientists speculate that herbivores turn to meat when they're not getting enough nutrients in their diet. It's possible. A biologist in Scotland documented red deer eating seabird chicks, and concluded it was how they got the dietary boost necessary to grow their antlers. The same researcher also documented sheep eating the heads and legs off of seabird chicks. And then there's another cow in India, which reportedly ate fifty chickens. There may be a specific need that drives herbivores to occasionally eat meat. It's also possible, experts say, that eating meat, when it can't run away from them, is just something supposed "herbivores" do, and we're finally getting wise to it.

The famous line from The Simpsons might be accurate - If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you ever cared about.

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chthonic-anemos_sl said:

Deer are crazy. Last year I saw a doe with new twins stop under a streetlamp and start stomping one in the skull until it fell so she could leave with the other.

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Six adult axolotls (including a leucistic specimen) were shipped from Mexico City to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1863. Unaware of their neoteny, Auguste Dum?ril was surprised when, instead of the axolotl, he found in the vivarium a new species, similar to the salamander. This discovery was the starting point of research about neoteny. It is not certain that Ambystoma velasci specimens were not included in the original shipment.

Vilem Laufberger of Germany used thyroid hormone injections to induce an axolotl to grow into a terrestrial adult salamander. The experiment was repeated by Englishman Julian Huxley, who was unaware the experiment had already been done, using ground thyroids. Since then, experiments have been done often with injections of iodine or various thyroid hormones used to induce metamorphosis.[citation needed]

Today, the axolotl is still used in research as a model organism, and large numbers are bred in captivity. They are especially easy to breed compared to other salamanders in their family, which are almost never captive-bred due to the demands of terrestrial life. One attractive feature for research is the large and easily manipulated embryo, which allows viewing of the full development of a vertebrate. Axolotls are used in heart defect studies due to the presence of a mutant gene that causes heart failure in embryos. Since the embryos survive almost to hatching with no heart function, the defect is very observable. The presence of several color morphs has also been extensively studied.[citation needed]

The feature of the salamander that attracts most attention is its healing ability: the axolotl does not heal by scarring and is capable of the regeneration of entire lost appendages in a period of months, and, in certain cases, more vital structures. Some have indeed been found restoring the less vital parts of their brains. They can also readily accept transplants from other individuals, including eyes and parts of the brain-restoring these alien organs to full functionality. In some cases, axolotls have been known to repair a damaged limb, as well as regenerating an additional one, ending up with an extra appendage that makes them attractive to pet owners as a novelty. In metamorphosed individuals, however, the ability to regenerate is greatly diminished. The axolotl is therefore used as a model for the development of limbs in vertebrates.[12]

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