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"Which poll option would make the worst poll?"

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I freaking hate liberals so damn much. Thomas is a badass.
 
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Wraith said:
I'm in a mood. Get in.
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Told you I was in a mood. Be nice to the guy in the cloak.
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Reminds me of one of the Discworld books (can't remember which one at the moment), where Death had to claim the soul of a dead kitten. He gently picked up the soul in his hands, and softly blew on it, like one would blow out a dandelion. Part of his character in those books was that he was very fond of cats.
 
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I dont diagree with this outside of the atrocious spelling, but it's worth noting that there were never mothers in disney media. The mother has always been dead, absent or gets killed.

Nick Gars said:
Mantis Shrimp are insane little creatures. Put that kind of equivalent striking force into something as big as a Labrador retriever and buildings would be leveled in a few punches.
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They can also see far more colors than we can.
 
Recoil said:
They can also see far more colors than we can.
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It's the opposite. Mantis shrimps have worse color vision than humans. More color receptors does not mean better color vision.

Scientific Paper
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6169/411
Behavioral wavelength discrimination tests (Δλ functions) in stomatopods revealed a surprisingly poor performance, ruling out color vision that makes use of the conventional color-opponent coding system (6–8)
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Summary of the above paper
https://www.nature.com/news/mantis-shrimp-s-super-colour-vision-debunked-1.14578
In subsequent testing, the shrimp could discriminate between their trained wavelengths and another colour 50–100 nanometres up or down the spectrum. But when the difference between the trained and test wavelengths was reduced to 12–25 nanometres, the shrimp could no longer tell them apart.
If the shrimp eye compared adjacent spectra, like the human eye does, it would have allowed the animals to discriminate between wavelengths as close as 1–5 nanometres, the authors say. Instead, each type of photoreceptor seems to pick up a specific colour, identifying it in a way that is less sensitive than the human eye but does not require brain-power-heavy comparisons.
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Basically the human eye is the senior software engineer who uses clever logic to get great results with less, and the mantis shrimp eye is the junior software developer that wrote a chain of if/else statements that gets worse results with more. The "I fucking love science" crowd is the code-illiterate office manager that goes "there's more lines of code so it must give better results".
Meanwhile the actual edge the junior developer offers is that their code can run on a weaker cpu. But the manager never talks about that and instead goes on about how the junior dev must be an enlightened super-being that can see the world in ways the rest of us cannot comprehend.
 
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MAPK phosphatase said:
It's the opposite. Mantis shrimps have worse color vision than humans. More color receptors does not mean better color vision.

Scientific Paper
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6169/411


Summary of the above paper
https://www.nature.com/news/mantis-shrimp-s-super-colour-vision-debunked-1.14578


Basically the human eye is the senior software engineer who uses clever logic to get great results with less, and the mantis shrimp eye is the junior software developer that wrote a chain of if/else statements that gets worse results with more. The "I fucking love science" crowd is the code-illiterate office manager that goes "there's more lines of code so it must give better results".
Meanwhile the actual edge the junior developer offers is that their code can run on a weaker cpu. But the manager never talks about that and instead goes on about how the junior dev must be an enlightened super-being that can see the world in ways the rest of us cannot comprehend.
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What are you? Some kind of shrimp aficionado?
 
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