i bought a set of dice online but they didnt come w anything to put them in…
is it acceptable to bring dice to a dnd session in a prescription bottle w the label torn off.
well now its decorated so its def acceptable
A newborn giraffe follows its mother outside into their enclosure for the first time at Artis Zoo in Amsterdam in 2018. Photo: Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/AFP/Getty Images
One-day-old baby giraffe calf Gus looks at the camera on May 12, 2017 in Bristol, England. Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
The mottled spots giraffes are known for aren’t random, according to a new study that suggests the patterns are inherited maternally — and that they may impact the chances of a calf surviving its first few months of life.
The roundness and smoothness of a giraffe’s spots are inherited through its mother, wildlife biology researchers reported in the academic journal PeerJ last week.
Giraffe coat markings are more complex and variable than the eye suggests: The researchers studied 11 spot attributes in total. The researchers did not document any mother-offspring similarity between the number of spots and their area and perimeter.
The study has produced the first data of its kind. Scientists have previously hypothesized that variation in spot patterns may camouflage newborns against predators, and that the animals’ spots are conferred at random. One prominent biologist, Anne Dagg, described similarities between parents and offspring in a zoo population in 1968, but analysis and objective measurements of spot characteristics were lacking in wild giraffes until now.
First photo: Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/AFP/Getty Images
Second photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
This is such cool science!
The researchers basically defined a bunch of different characteristics of giraffe spots – such as size, length of perimeter, smoothness, roundness, ect – and used an image program to compare the spots from mothers and their calves to see how similar the types of spots on the animals were.
The researchers don’t have any way to know for sure what benefits are conferred by inheritable spot patterns yet, the was some correlation between spot sizes and shapes and the survival rates of the calves. It’s possible that this is because certain types of coat patterns (called phenotypes) confer better camouflage than others, but they haven’t ruled out other aspects of survival that are influence by coat coloring.
– Keep in mind that T doesn’t work overnight. You won’t turn into a big hairy man in 2 days and probably not even in a year.
– That being said also don’t expect minimal change. Especially mentally. Mental changes will happen a lot more than you expect both good and bad.
– Everyone’s body is different. Your voice may not start dropping until month seven. Sometimes it’s not the dose and sometimes it is. Not every doctor’s approach to testosterone will work for you.
– Your singing voice won’t disappear it may just take some time for it to get “back to normal”
– Periods don’t vanish overnight. And sometimes they get even longer than before. Be prepared for this.
– Some changes may happen a lot more than you expect some won’t or won’t happen to the degree you expected. Your growth may be a lot or only a little. You may grow a ton of hair in the first month. Be prepared but don’t have expectations.
– Doubting yourself especially during and after the first shot is normal. Just be patient and let your body grow.
– PEOPLE 👏 WONT 👏 THINK 👏 YOU’RE 👏 UGLY FOR 👏 BEING 👏 ON 👏 T! I can’t stress this enough. Your dysphoria is the one telling you you’re ugly. Don’t listen to it. You’re handsome and you deserve happiness.
– For some reason cis people, even when you know you 100% pass as a guy still misgender you. It’s really the small changes that count. Don’t let this deter you. Giving it time will help.
– Again with the don’t ahve expectations but don’t expect to grow muscles overnight. That’s just not how bodies work. Some people might find that this happens but it’s usually because they work out in the first place.
– Some things that you may not have wanted when going on T you may want now and vice versa. I went on T really not looking forward to body hair and now I love my body hair.
– Sometimes that big change that you were waiting on is anticlimactic, sometimes it’s the little things that count. Now I will look down at my arms and see a man’s arms and it makes me feel really euphoric.
– Fat redistribution takes a loooooong time. And usually you don’t even notice it when it happens.
– In the end it’s your body so do what you need to do to feel happy.
Things are different for literally everyone to an extreme extent. You will eventually get most of the effects you expect, and some are inevitable, but the whens and the maybes vary extremely wildly. For example, my fat distribution literally took a month and then i had a male body shape, and my periods stopped after less than 2 months, but I’m only just starting to grow more body hair at 10 months in. I haven’t got almost any of the common mental effects except for the reduction/near disappearance of dysphoria. It varies EXTREMELY wildly.
That’s actually a wise move that many people do practice. Don’t have enough job experience, but need it to get the job? Put yourself down as having had experience in a position in a company that is no longer in business, especially if it closed years ago. They literally have no way of verifying this (do not do this for chains wherein only the store closed, but not the chain). It’s a good way to fluff up your resume, just make sure you put down a position wherein you used skills you already have.
For instance, you can say you were a Personal Assistant – typing, data entry, responding to emails, taking phone calls.
Or you were an entry level cashier/customer service worker. Retraining is simple at that point.
Need brief training on that, so that you can say you literally were trained?
All for free, just sign up with Alison. Takes 2 seconds to login with your google account, and then you can take some open courseware. Open University is another good place to go for good business acumen courses.
Seriously, Alison is amazing. Most courses are only around an hour or so long, and you can say you have some knowledge or some experience in these things… because you do.
This shit used to hurt me so much. Now when I go shopping I don’t even touch shit unless I know I want it lol cus I know that pain
i’m that person you see folding something and putting it back after i’ve looked at it lol
^^^ And if I can’t fold it back perfectly they’re gonna at least see that I tried.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
All.of.this
Worked in retail almost half a decade, and let me tell y’all this is daily, not just Black Friday or summer sales.
I’ve had people look me straight in the eyes while they knock over a perfectly folded stack of shirts off a table so they could put down their Starbucks cup. People leave food, drinks, diapers, used pads and bandages, even one time an actual syringe on tables.
I’ve had people destroy entire displays and complain about how dirty and “why don’t employees respect their own store” while I was directly next to them frantically trying to fix what they, themselves, just messed up.
This shit is so ingrained in me now that I fixed displays while on vacation in Disney World for a full half hour.
And before anyone says anything, no, actually picking up after grown adults that should know better, it actually isn’t my job to clean up after you all day. We have customer service, check for product, work the registers, keep the bathrooms clean, deal with angry customers, try to prevent shop lifting, and keep the store running. Recovery (fixing displays) is supposed to be low on our list because people aren’t supposed to be selfish shitheads. If you wouldn’t destroy your friend’s house, don’t destroy retail shops.
I’ve literally had people ask me if I work at several stores before because I’m cleaning up after myself??? like they are asking me for help and I’m like “idk I don’t work here” then they are like “then why are you cleaning?”
It’s,,, basic manners,,, to clean after yourself,,, what is wrong with people,,,
Also another thing: most of the emissions made by third world countries are to feed the industries of first world countries. The deforestation in Brazil, Indonesia, Argentina, etc. to plant export crops that do not feed them, and just go straight to the world market… the production of oil for developed nations… the establishment of polluting industries overseas by corporations… those industries only benefit the local elites and the markets of the first world. Peasants in India don’t buy SUVs and eat in McDonalds everyday. And yet they will suffer the consequences of the people who lead that lifestyle.
Like Eduardo Galeano said:
“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty to feed the prosperity of others.”
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