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Friendship evolutions are still far better than trade evolutions imo. If you were the only one you knew that played that game it just left you with so many cool Pokémon you can't have.
Kids these days have it easy. You had to know someone with a compatible game, have a cable, and also know what Pokemon evolved from trading back in the day.
You kids get to run around with Gengar and Alakazam like it's nothing. I didn't have a Gengar until I was a man.
Yes, he had something wrong with him, like a hormone thing or something - I saw a YouTube short yesterday about him! Compared to the normal ones he was like two or three times the size.
It’s so weird but increasingly, stuff I watch on YouTube will be recommended in my feed on Reddit right after I watch it. I’d be interested to know if they’re connected or if it’s just because it’s in my head so I notice it more (there’s a name for that! Thought it was Dunning-Kruger but I think that’s overestimating your abilities in a particular area when you actually don’t know anything)
You know how on iPhone the apps ask to track your activity across other apps? It’s connected your feeds are all informing each other. They have your search history and bank transactions too. That’s why people get spooked and think their phone is listening to them.
I mean. My phone is listening to me. And all the fucked up shit that you just listed. But it's also definitely listening, and I will not be gaslit into thinking it's just some amalgamation of other information I've already consented to relinquishing.
I remember when my wife sat me down to tell me she was pregnant. We were married but still 25 so had never even discussed babies in any way at all. We talked for about 2 hours about what our plan was going to be. Once we were finished I sat down on my computer to play some games and the first thing I'm met with is an advertisement for diapers on YouTube, then immediately after was ads for strollers on Facebook... I was dumbfounded. I hadn't searched for anything baby related in my life, not even during my wife and I's verbal conversation, the literal only way the ad algorithm would know we had interest in baby items suddenly would be by listening through our phones... I have been weary of security ever since.
Good thinking, but no, I specifically asked her that. She bought a test from the dollar store with me and did it in front of me (this was also before we had NFC, so no phones involved). She was told she was infertile due to P.C.O.S. and her weight, so we literally had no reason to look these things up ever. This was night and day, from game ads, straight to constant baby ads after the talk.
Facts. There have been multiple times I haven't looked up something in the past 6 months or even mentioned it and as soon as I do. It's right there in an ad or tangential search on Google.
The phones are absolutely 100% listening to you. It’s fun snd concerning to test.
Think of something you are 100% sure you have absolutely not looked up or watched, for example… let’s use diving. Outside hobbyists it’s not something you would usually look up.
Work the word “diving” into sentences you speak aloud clearly near your phone. Do this, verbally only, several times throughout a couple hours.
Lo and behold, you will start seeing ads for diving related activities or products.
I did this myself with Legos (which i haven’t touched in 20 years) and with Jeeps (which i do not own). Both times, related ads started showing up. That is farrrrr too much to be a coincidence. Your phone is listening
That article was put out by an agency selling services and successfully drove some click bait.
If you have any technical acumen, you understand the absolute insane infrastructure, finances, resources, and technical requirements it would take to listen to all conversations through phones and the total impossibility for that to make economic sense to use that to sell ads on social media.
Unless you are backed by a government funded spy program, no one is doing all that to listen to a bunch of nothing.
The first time I ever saw a bullfrog tadpole, it was nibbling on my feet in a pond. I about shit myself when I saw the size of it. Had no idea bullfrogs had jumbo tadpoles till then.
This is misleading tho. Axolotls don't naturally morph into an adult form on their own. The ability for some to morph is due to hybridization with tiger salamanders in captivity, which was done to prevent inbreeding. In the wild, axolotls retain their juvenile characteristics throughout their lives.
True! Still interesting to know that the adult axolotl hasn't actually "finished" development. I mean they have finished it because that is just what the adult axolotl is these days but you get what i mean. It is interesting that if given the right circumstances like a genetic defect, the axolotl can develop further
I believe you can induce them to mature with iodine (and by "you" I mean "a scientist several years ago". Please don't kill your axolotls with iodine, reddit). They still have the genes necessary to mature "properly" but lack the proper hormone cascade to finish the process without outside help.
I was about to suggest an amphibian Pokémon that can either mature or turn into a larger version of its nymph form, but then I realized we’ve had that for decades now.
No, it is [EDIT: probably! Apparently a few giant tadpoles of bullfrog has also been found!] a misleading title. Reality is more interesting: it is a tadpole of the frog Pseudis paradoxa, which grow into huge tadpoles and then shring during metamorphosis into normal-sized frogs!
axolotls as a whole species are neotenic salamanders. they generally do not mature into their terrestrial phase.
they still have some latent ability to do so, and it's the ones that do which are unusual. you can force this shift by giving them the ne, and they turn into something like a tiger salamander. but iirc, this is generally really bad for them, and they tend to die as a result.
they are also functionally (and possibly actually) extinct in the wild.
Thank you for the incredibly cool gallery link showing off some of the different variants in this phenomena. What a bizarre and fascinating world we live in.
It’s like how in pokemon, depending on the conditions a pokemon can evolve down one branch or another for a different final evolution. Very interesting… 🧐
Here is a higher-quality version of this image. Here is the source with more images of this. Per there:
@Afro_Herper
I know a lot of you were looking for updates and I can’t tell you exactly how big this guy is because the researchers haven’t published on it yet. A rough estimate would be the size of a medium banana. He is still alive and growing. His name is Goliath 😊 @swrsamnh
4:21 PM · Jun 14, 2018
Here is the original tweet they mention with more pictures of this. Per there:
@Afro_Herper
Up here at the Southwestern Research Station there is an initiative to remove invasive bull frogs from ponds. During the removal process they found a tadpole of gigantic proportions. BEHOLD
Hey y’all! I got the ok to share an update about Goliath the #BigAssTadpole. Unfortunately it died last year. Researchers at @swrsamnh preserved it to figure out why it stayed a tadpole it’s whole life, it’s sex, and other morphological studies.
The reason for the gigantic size of Goliath – he’s larger than a typical can of cola – is likely due to a hormone imbalance. This could well stop him from being able to morph into a frog.
‘The drawbacks of Goliath’s size is that his respiratory and circulatory system may not continue to support his body size as he continues to grow,’ McGee told LiveScience....
As for Goliath, he will be used for research but ultimately things don’t look good.
‘We are unsure exactly how long Goliath may live without metamorphosing but if it continues to grow it may get to a point where the respiratory or circulatory system will not be able to support the size of the body,’ McGee wrote.
That's neat, but those frogs are found in the jungles of South America and the picture of a paradoxical frog tadpole looks quite different compared to the one we have here, so I think you're wrong.
This looks like a paradoxical frog tadpole. They can be quite massive (I have a tattoo of one).
ETA: it’s not a paradoxical frog tadpole. There was an article posted that confirms OP’s post. I said it looked like one - wasn’t sure, but no, it’s not.
I wondered how big the frog must be but the ‘paradoxical’ now makes sense having researched*. (It shrinks during metamorphosis). Down to a quarter/third of its length as a tadpole. Remarkable.
I got one because my daughter is so much bigger than I am, so we got matching paradoxical frog tadpole tattoos. We were going with the whole “the offspring is bigger than the parent” idea, and they are pretty badass tattoos if I say so myself.
No, there was a tadpole named Goliath that was huge. It apparently had some hormonal imbalance that didn’t initiate its transition into a frog. But also, that was 2018 and it only lived a year. It was that big though.
OP probably saw several over the course of a few years and thought it was the same one, not realizing this a totally normal size for a Paradoxical Frog Tadpole. I would imagine if you’ve never seen one before you would think it was some outlier.
“Sometimes frog and toad tadpoles have a genetic abnormality which means that they will remain as tadpoles for their whole lives. If a tadpole lacks the gene which produces the growth hormone thyroxine they will be unable to metamorphose into froglets or toadlets. This is nothing to worry about since it is a natural mutation and only occurs in a very small number of tadpoles. The tadpoles will continue to feed and grow within the pond all year and may survive as tadpoles for several years.“
I miss when Reddit had people convention useful information, like back before Unidan crashed and burned. I’d like to know more about how and why this happened.
Now it’s like an open mic at an amateur comedy show.
After some Google-fo this is uncommon but not unheard of. Basically the tadpole lacked the hormones to begin metamorphosis. Some reports have tadpoles of certain species living up to 8 years like this.
Given the amount of eggs that female frogs produce, it's statistically reasonable to have an egg every now and then that is defective. It's all a numbers game. Obviously in the wild, this tadpole wouldn't survive. It would have already been preyed upon.
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