1850s: Some scientists notice the connection between dinosaurs & birds and think birds might have evolved from dinosaurs, given similarity between Archaeopteryx and many dinosaurs, as well as between dinosaurs and living birds
1960s: Deinonychus is discovered. Scientists starting to realize birds did evolve from dinosaurs; other ideas become fringe hypotheses
1970s: More dinosaurs are discovered that point to dinosaur behavior being more like birds than reptiles
1980s: Scientists begin using evolutionary relationships (ie, cladistics) to classify life, rather than Linnean Taxonomy (Kingdom-Phylum-Class etc.), especially for extinct creatures, because it really doesn’t apply to extinct life like, at all. Coelophysis, an early dinosaur, is speculatively depicted with feathers. Some very bird-like dinosaurs are debated on whether they are birds or dinosaurs.
1993: Birds are straight-up called dinosaurs in the famous film “Jurassic Park,” which is one of the first pieces of media to depict dinosaurs as extremely birdlike; changes public perception of dinosaurs dramatically
1996: Sinosauropteryx, the first feathered non-avian dinosaur, is revealed to the public. Birds determined to have evolved from dinosaurs, full stop; BANDits (birds-are-not-dinosaurs scientists) now a backwards, on-par-with creationists group. Since we classify dinosaurs based on their evolutionary relationships, we start calling birds dinosaurs, because they evolved from dinosaurs.
1999: Sinornithosaurus, the first raptor (ie, cousin of Velociraptor) dinosaur found with feathers, is described. Many other feathered dinosaurs are described as well, from all over the group closely related to birds. The Walking With Dinosaurs landmark documentary series calls birds dinosaurs.
2000: Microraptor, a raptor dinosaur with full wings on its arms and legs, is described
2001: Velociraptor is given… “feathers” in Jurassic Park III. Velociraptor also portrayed as more bird-like than ever. When Dinosaurs Roamed America, another groundbreaking dinosaur documentary, shows all members of the group closely related to birds (except T. rex) with feathers, including Deinonychus, all over their bodies. Also calls birds dinosaurs.
2002: A specimen of Psittacosaurus, a dinosaur about as far away from birds as you can get, is described with quills on its tail very similar to feathers
2004: Dilong, a small relative of T. rex, is found with feathers and display structures like modern birds
2007: Many feathered dinosaurs are now known from the group most closely related to birds. A specimen of Velociraptor with feather attachment sites on the arms for wing feathers is now known. Velociraptor now known to be definitely, no question, feathered
2009: Tianyulong, another dinosaur from a group very far from birds, is found with fluffy quills covering all over its back
2012: Feathered dinosaurs now coming out many times a year. Yutyrannus, a large and closer relative to T. rex, found with shaggy feathers all over its body
2014: Kulindadromeus, another dinosaur from the group very far from birds, is named. It has fluffy covering like that of Sinosauropteryx all over its body, rather than quills. Feathers determined to be mostly likely ancestral to all dinosaurs and lost secondarily in larger species (especially if fluff known on closest relatives, pterosaurs, is also feathers - see below).
2015: Zhenyuanlong, a close relative of Velociraptor the same size as Velociraptor, is found with extremely large wings. Raptor dinosaurs inferred to have large wing feathers unless anatomy indicates otherwise (such as having short wings). Jurassic World comes out, making dinosaurs less bird-like than in the original Jurassic Park - with lizard-like tails and behavior, and no feathers at all. Essentially, a huge step backwards.
2018: Branched fluffy covering very similar to feathers described now on multiple pterosaurs, the group most closely related to dinosaurs (think Pterodactyls). Fluffy covering considered ancestral to all members of the Pterosaur-Dinosaur group, if not all animals more closely related to birds than to crocodilians.
We have known birds are dinosaurs since before many people reading this were born - since before I was born. We have known dinosaurs had feathers since the mid-1990s. We have known Velociraptor was fluffy and had wings since the mid-2000s. This isn’t news. This isn’t up for debate. Please grow up. Thank you!
My question is, how do they find out that these dinosaurs had feathers? They only find fossils. What advanced technology are they using?
1850s: Some scientists notice the connection between dinosaurs & birds and think birds might have evolved from dinosaurs, given similarity between Archaeopteryx and many dinosaurs, as well as between dinosaurs and living birds
1960s: Deinonychus is discovered. Scientists starting to realize birds did evolve from dinosaurs; other ideas become fringe hypotheses
1970s: More dinosaurs are discovered that point to dinosaur behavior being more like birds than reptiles
1980s: Scientists begin using evolutionary relationships (ie, cladistics) to classify life, rather than Linnean Taxonomy (Kingdom-Phylum-Class etc.), especially for extinct creatures, because it really doesn’t apply to extinct life like, at all. Coelophysis, an early dinosaur, is speculatively depicted with feathers. Some very bird-like dinosaurs are debated on whether they are birds or dinosaurs.
1993: Birds are straight-up called dinosaurs in the famous film “Jurassic Park,” which is one of the first pieces of media to depict dinosaurs as extremely birdlike; changes public perception of dinosaurs dramatically
1996: Sinosauropteryx, the first feathered non-avian dinosaur, is revealed to the public. Birds determined to have evolved from dinosaurs, full stop; BANDits (birds-are-not-dinosaurs scientists) now a backwards, on-par-with creationists group. Since we classify dinosaurs based on their evolutionary relationships, we start calling birds dinosaurs, because they evolved from dinosaurs.
1999: Sinornithosaurus, the first raptor (ie, cousin of Velociraptor) dinosaur found with feathers, is described. Many other feathered dinosaurs are described as well, from all over the group closely related to birds. The Walking With Dinosaurs landmark documentary series calls birds dinosaurs.
2000: Microraptor, a raptor dinosaur with full wings on its arms and legs, is described
2001: Velociraptor is given… “feathers” in Jurassic Park III. Velociraptor also portrayed as more bird-like than ever. When Dinosaurs Roamed America, another groundbreaking dinosaur documentary, shows all members of the group closely related to birds (except T. rex) with feathers, including Deinonychus, all over their bodies. Also calls birds dinosaurs.
2002: A specimen of Psittacosaurus, a dinosaur about as far away from birds as you can get, is described with quills on its tail very similar to feathers
2004: Dilong, a small relative of T. rex, is found with feathers and display structures like modern birds
2007: Many feathered dinosaurs are now known from the group most closely related to birds. A specimen of Velociraptor with feather attachment sites on the arms for wing feathers is now known. Velociraptor now known to be definitely, no question, feathered
2009: Tianyulong, another dinosaur from a group very far from birds, is found with fluffy quills covering all over its back
2012: Feathered dinosaurs now coming out many times a year. Yutyrannus, a large and closer relative to T. rex, found with shaggy feathers all over its body
2014: Kulindadromeus, another dinosaur from the group very far from birds, is named. It has fluffy covering like that of Sinosauropteryx all over its body, rather than quills. Feathers determined to be mostly likely ancestral to all dinosaurs and lost secondarily in larger species (especially if fluff known on closest relatives, pterosaurs, is also feathers - see below).
2015: Zhenyuanlong, a close relative of Velociraptor the same size as Velociraptor, is found with extremely large wings. Raptor dinosaurs inferred to have large wing feathers unless anatomy indicates otherwise (such as having short wings). Jurassic World comes out, making dinosaurs less bird-like than in the original Jurassic Park - with lizard-like tails and behavior, and no feathers at all. Essentially, a huge step backwards.
2018: Branched fluffy covering very similar to feathers described now on multiple pterosaurs, the group most closely related to dinosaurs (think Pterodactyls). Fluffy covering considered ancestral to all members of the Pterosaur-Dinosaur group, if not all animals more closely related to birds than to crocodilians.
We have known birds are dinosaurs since before many people reading this were born - since before I was born. We have known dinosaurs had feathers since the mid-1990s. We have known Velociraptor was fluffy and had wings since the mid-2000s. This isn’t news. This isn’t up for debate. Please grow up. Thank you!
My question is, how do they find out that these dinosaurs had feathers? They only find fossils. What advanced technology are they using?
Documenting what is quite possibly the best exchange I have ever seen on this website.
He will not be exiled again
I enjoy all parts of this post. The trans leash, the confusion, the heartfelt display of affection we give to our pets. The biography, the history lesson, and the morality of keeping cats indoors are all bonuses.
I actually really hate how the “just call me a slur” joke went from being a critique of rainbow capitalism and faux inclusionism to being a way to make fun of nonbinary and aspec ppl literally just. having language.
“Joyfriend? Queerplatonic? Erm.. literally just call me a slur XD” shut the fuck upppp goddamn
“i want more weird queer people” you can’t even handle a nonbinary person using Mx. for themselves
Thinking about how one of the most famous and recognisable elements of House of Leaves is the Minotaur, which only ever appears written in red and crossed out. The beast is notable only in that it is an abandoned theme that was supposed to have been removed from the text. The Minotaur of the labrinth is an absence, and nothing more. The possibility of a beast that lurks the halls of the House on Ash Tree Lane is raised purely so that it can be dashed against the rocks to draw attention to the true emptiness of that place.
Sometimes being a therian is “I’m a lil kitty haha :3” and sometimes it’s “My bones are wrong. My muscles wrap around them the wrong way. My eyes can’t see in the dark the way they should. My hind legs are too long. My fur is gone. My fangs have been stolen from me. My joints ache when I place them the way they should be. I curse whatever deity or being has placed me in this form.” And then it’s like “haha I’m a deer UwU.”
I just think everyone should take a moment to consider the question “what is your visual shorthand for cruelty?” and then follow it up with a critical “and who taught you that?”
specific examples include but are not limited to
why is an evil timeline character design disabled? (why do the heroes go through equally punishing battles and never lose an arm, a leg, an eye?)
why are the futuristic scifi terrorists uniformly darker skinned? (why are the heroes so much lighter?)
why is the greedy boss fat? (why are the heroes skinny?)
why is the criminal mastermind heavily scarred? (why is the brooding, traumatized hero unscathed?)
why is the predatory creep a bearded person in a dress and makeup? (why are none of the heroes trans women?)
who taught you that this is how things are?
how long do you plan on repeating it?
guys the point is “reflect on how you have learned bigotry through exposure and you parrot it in your own works and in the fandoms you engage with without self awareness” not “tell me, specifically, what random motifs you think are evil”
on the flipside, to everyone adding notes about hooked noses, turbans + headscarves, nonwhite features and cultural clothing in general, mental and physical disorders, and surely others I’ve missed in recollection: you are entirely right and should say it.
i have the opposite of that “everyone is an npc” mentality people have embraced where i’m instead like. the person next to me in line has someone they can’t wait to go home to, the person picking up their mail has felt devastation before, everyone in this grocery store is doing their sunday shopping, maybe the person that just honked at me is having the worst day of their life, my neighbor has doctors appointments and favorite foods and a song they can’t stand to hear anymore… you are all fully realized complex people and that is overwhelming me on a spiritual level…
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Kengo then adds
PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they’re certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start:
go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off
once I was at the only gay bar in town and one of my students caught me there and they were like “so this is what you’re doing instead of grading our papers” and man what do I even say to that
This is kinda neat cause you could do ceo nari got thrown out of his familys company. To get revenge, takes some intern from one of the smaller groups they bought and destroyed, and grooming them through a startup to take down his siblings. Then, in the end, he demands they sell the company they made to him, but the intern refuses. Narinder is homeless and penniless, but now the lamb can choose to take him in as an intern or not.
And yeah, a business trip at some point, there’s only one bed in the hotel, yadda yadda.
This is kinda neat cause you could do ceo nari got thrown out of his familys company. To get revenge, takes some intern from one of the smaller groups they bought and destroyed, and grooming them through a startup to take down his siblings. Then, in the end, he demands they sell the company they made to him, but the intern refuses. Narinder is homeless and penniless, but now the lamb can choose to take him in as an intern or not.
And yeah, a business trip at some point, there’s only one bed in the hotel, yadda yadda.
one time i was in an olive garden bathroom and my packer fell out of my shorts and this ten year old boy just looked at me with absolute terror and without thinking i said “that’s what happens when you don’t eat your vegetables” later i saw him eating salad at a speed no human should be capable of
we have to kill all smart asses that openly share links to pirate sites or point to them. loose lips sink ship but idgaf if i can get my funny dunk in am i right???? this happens way too fucking often on here too. shut your damn mouth.
truly said by somebody who has never seen their usual sites get taken down. smaller piracy sites have to change the urls constantly or are deleted outright, or are turned into honey traps. it’s not worth sharing sites in a snide self serving way unless you want to farm gummy points online
Step 1: figure out a poll question. Something bland, but it’s nice if you can get a class angle on it so it makes you look privileged. Example: “How many horses does your family have?”
Step 2: figure out what the most common answer would be. In this case, zero. Most families have zero horses.
Step 3: compose your poll to leave out that option.
Like make the options “1-5”, “10-25”, “50-100”
Step 4: add “other (include in tags!)” as the final poll option.
Step 5: your poll will now get a lot of results because people keep reblogging it to say “wtf my family has zero horses!”
Please just be aware that this is a thing, and if you see a Bad Poll come across your dash, it might be getting reblogged so much because it is bad, and it might also be bad on purpose.
I’m asexual which means I’m attracted to the exit.
Well…I mean…accurate?
Im lesbian which means I’m attracted to you and your mom.
Nah bro wth man
I’m trixic which means I’m attracted to you but you are not a fictive of people that have been in your mind and I would never do anything for me and you will be happy about that and you like to know how much money you have a day and how are in your health care you are my love and love and love to me and your asks for the knight of God God of like you to be my love to me you always have a wonderful time with your mutual love crabs you have a wonderful time and a blessed month ahead and you like to be with your mutual friends notifications and you can see if you can see if you can see if you are interested to see the price in this is a private link and I would never see you on a video online or you have a name to do it with your favorite videos and then that you were going on the internet and it sounds good job and you like the ones that are not good for me and I would never do anything for me and (from here on autocorrect got personal about my family for some reason)
I’m Trixic, Demisexual, and Demiromantic which means I’m attracted to the best friends to lovers toxic relationship slowburn extreme angst with a different time text and then I will be able to get it done before I leave
HELLO?????
im ace and bisexual which means I’m attracted to bread
dang….didnt know I had typed ‘im attracted to bread’ that many times…..
once i was in the TSA line for a flight and it was SO LONG that TSA decided to just drop all the security protocols. leave everything in the suitcase including electronics. keep your shoes on. don’t go through the fancy 360 scanner, just the metal detector. get out of here. and i was like ohhhh so you admit this is all just your stupid community theatre production that you’ve made me be a part of for all this time and it doesn’t actually mean anything real. okayyyyy
I fly often enough and with a service dog that I got TSA precheck so I skip the general TSA line and in precheck we don’t have to take off our shoes or empty our bags and usually we just use the regular metal detector, all based on a clean background check and the assumption that someone planning an enormous crime wouldn’t be able to recruit people without prior charges. so not only what you said but also u can buy your way out of it which totally makes sense if the real concern is national security, yeah
People who try to copy historical writing styles don’t say enough weird stuff in them. I’m listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was “I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter”.
I want a management sim that’s a historically accurate castle builder. I think I would learn a lot.
“Derin that wouldn’t be an adventure of building grand castles, you’d spend 90% of the game hoarded up in a small stone box with a board on the door or harvesting reeds to make rushlights and hoping you have enough wood and food for the winter” yeah I know what I said.
I just feel like my knowledge of fact vs theme park shit in this area is severely lacking and I’d rather play a computer game about it than read sixty seven history books and try to figure out which ones are mistaken. If Civ II could get my brother to learn basic world history this way then I’m confident I could learn basic castle life from a management sim. I know there’s someone out there with an obsessive knowledge of medieval life and a basic interest in game design who can do it.
when you’re out at a restaurant or a coffee shop or a target or whatever with your friends and you overhear/eavesdrop the same snippet of some stranger’s conversation, and you look at each other for a second to check that you both heard this stranger say the same weird/funny/baffling thing and just break out in knowing grins and quiet laughter… that’s a love language
I hope Robert and Barbara Wire are in a happy and committed relationship.
My theory of adhd management is that in order to focus there are 4 things that need to be sufficiently occupied:
Eyes
Ears
Hands (or body)
Brain
And if you aren’t occupying them enough or there’s too many things demanding the use of one, it’ll start to wreck havoc on your ability to do things.
So for example, listening to a podcast. This occupies your ears and brain as you focus on both listening and processing what you hear, but it leaves your hands and eyes completely without anything to do. If you tried to sit down and just listen to a podcast by itself you’d probably get unbearably bored and stop doing it.
But if you pair that activity with something that uses your hands and eyes, like a craft, household chore, or commute, suddenly you’re fully plugged in and can in fact focus better on both tasks than you could if you tried doing them separately.
It’s also why you can’t listen to a podcast while doing homework; you’re trying to use your brain for two different tasks. To occupy your ears while doing homework (which is already using eyes, brain, and hands) you need something for your ears that doesn’t require your brain: music. Specifically music that doesn’t use too much brain power, which is why some people prefer instrumentals or songs in other languages.
Hyperfixation and sensory overload change this by moving the threshold for how much sensory input you need to be able to function. If I’m extremely focused on a craft project (eyes, hands, brain) I might not even need something for my ears; my interest in the project makes up for it. If i’ve had a very overwhelming day, trying to listen to an audiobook while I do some stretches could be too much to process. My brain needs a break.
Video games, which pretty much universally occupy all 4 areas, are basically instant, easy focus wrapped up in a neat little bow. No wonder adhd-havers tend to love them.
If you’re struggling with a task, try looking at which areas it occupies and which are left unattended. Then try to find something enjoyable to fill those gaps, and see if that helps.
