Post a picture, entertain me!

In the same images-of-science vein, there's the tree of life. You remember this kind of thing?

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It's a taxonomy, showing the evolutionary inheritance of each species.

Now, here's a look at an updated taxonomy, based on genome reconstruction.

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Eukaryotes, which include all plants (Archaeplastida) and animals and fungi (Opisthokonta) are in the little green wedge in the lower right. (The exact positioning is still unsettled: we're probably a fusion of bacterial and archaeal cells). Eukaryotes are much, much less diverse than Bacteria, having had much less time to develop.

Demosthenes wrote:
TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

Thanks! I definitely appreciate sharing on social media - if my personal angst can entertain some folks, I'll feel a lot better about having gone through it!

Kind of reminds me of the guy who called to complain that there were porn ads on our GROCERY STORE website, and wtf?!

10 minutes later, I get him to go to his ISP's home page.

"Are there porn ads there too?"

"...yes, they're everwhere."

"Yeah, you have some form of malware on your computer. Those aren't our ads, they're being inserted by something on your computer."

"That doesn't make sense, it's on the internet."

"Do you have any teenaged kids in the household?"

"...why?"

"...because having been a teenager with internet, I have a theory."

*Customer hangs up*

Needless to say, that ticket did not go to our website dev or advertising teams. :lol:

My wife got an errant call from someone who thought they were reaching a credit card customer support associate and was upset that a strip club charged him something like 20K the week he gave his card to his son. He was really upset that the club was trying to scam him out of money, and that the card would allow such a vile hive of scum and villainy to use their product.

Demosthenes wrote:

Kind of reminds me of the guy who called to complain that there were porn ads on our GROCERY STORE website, and wtf?!

10 minutes later, I get him to go to his ISP's home page.

"Are there porn ads there too?"

"...yes, they're everwhere."

"Yeah, you have some form of malware on your computer. Those aren't our ads, they're being inserted by something on your computer."

"That doesn't make sense, it's on the internet."

"Do you have any teenaged kids in the household?"

"...why?"

"...because having been a teenager with internet, I have a theory."

*Customer hangs up*

Needless to say, that ticket did not go to our website dev or advertising teams. :lol:

I used to do customer service for DirecTV back in the 90's. A common issue we had was with people ordering pay-per-view without having their receiver connected to a phone line. The receiver had a limited amount of onboard storage an once it filled up it would stop allowing them to order more pay-per-view until it could download. They would call tech support about the problem and tech would tell them to connect it to a phone line over night and that that would fix the issue. They never bothered to mention that their next bill would be like $700 depending on what they had ordered.

So one day I got a call from a rather perturbed gentleman who had had this problem. He got his bill and it was huge. There were 6 or 7 movies that he actually remembered ordering and tons of porn. He didn't deny ordering the non-porn but he said that there was no way anyone in his household would order smut like that. Him and his wife were both in their 70s and would never watch such things. He goes on and on about how it has to be a mistake and starts reading me off the titles and the dates and times stuff was ordered. All the porn was ordered around 1am to 2am and he says there was no way someone could have snuck in to the room with the receiver to order that smut at that time of the night because his 13 year old grandson slept in that room...

maverickz wrote:
TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

I'd like to think that's parody. But then I just got this phone call at work today. So who knows.

Oh my god! These are hilarious!

I am a regular reader of THM's dispatches from the desk. I alternate between hearty laughter and desk-shaking facepalms. Throughout it all, I constantly congratulate THM for not going postal on some of these people.

Abu5217 wrote:
maverickz wrote:
TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

I'd like to think that's parody. But then I just got this phone call at work today. So who knows.

Oh my god! These are hilarious!

I am a regular reader of THM's dispatches from the desk. I alternate between hearty laughter and desk-shaking facepalms. Throughout it all, I constantly congratulate THM for not going postal on some of these people.

I blame my parents. I think they (accidentally) worked to together to "teach" me that I should have unlimited amounts of patience in the face of absurdity.

*WOOPS* wrong thread. nevermind!

TheHarpoMarxist wrote:
Abu5217 wrote:
maverickz wrote:
TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

I'd like to think that's parody. But then I just got this phone call at work today. So who knows.

Oh my god! These are hilarious!

I am a regular reader of THM's dispatches from the desk. I alternate between hearty laughter and desk-shaking facepalms. Throughout it all, I constantly congratulate THM for not going postal on some of these people.

I blame my parents. I think they (accidentally) worked to together to "teach" me that I should have unlimited amounts of patience in the face of absurdity.

Are you Arthur Dent? Or Ford Prefect, perhaps?

TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

I blame my parents. I think they (accidentally) worked to together to "teach" me that I should have unlimited amounts of patience in the face of absurdity.

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What's that stuck in the dart board?

Oh, it's a dart.

I need more coffee.

Tamren wrote:

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I haven't even played the game and I love that.

Isn't that every game where a sadistic GM discovers a mimic in the monster manual?

Rat Boy wrote:

Isn't that every game where a sadistic GM discovers a mimic in the monster manual?

There's another kind of GM?

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trichy wrote:

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You just aren't trying hard enough.

Spoiler:

trichy - I just shot coffee out of my nose. And not just any coffee either - it was the extra strong Death Wish coffee kindly gifted to me by my secret Stanta dr. Incurable (see the 2016 secret Stanta thread). I wonder if snorting it will increase the caffeine intake?

trichy wrote:

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Stupid game doesn't know what it's talking about...
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are all your animals named after goodjers?

krev82 wrote:

are all your animals named after goodjers?

Just the ones he plans to butcher and eat.

I am pretty sure that Qstone was born without nipples. Just one of the magical little things about him.

I always thought he had extra nipples. Little nubbins if you will.

But those were on his back.

Grenn wrote:

But those were on his back.

To be fair, those weren't originals; they were clearly aftermarket nipples.

Also, I saw Aftermarket Nipples opening for Arcade Fire last year and their set was simply epic.

Skip to 3:30

You guys are weird.

MoonDragon wrote:

You guys are weird.

Hi! You must be new here!

Cats can have only one kid at a time?
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No they usually have multiple. Maybe there was a problem with the litter or that cat only had one by chance.