Damn, toner is running out
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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Considering that this mutation seems to be caused by a chunk of missing DNA, as the article suggests, that's actually quite fitting.
“Well, Aktually…. You’re right…..”
Basically how I read that.
Well you read it wrong. I made it more verbose, and I hope it helps:
"Your humorous observation that the cat superficially resembles a printout from a laser printer that is running out of toner is actually quite an apt metaphor for what is going on genetically."
Aw man, I was hoping for green or blue
Or this guy
When they didn’t find the KIT gene to be causing the whiteness, the scientists turned to something more dramatic: sequencing the salmiak cats' entire genome
OMG you can’t just ask a cat why it’s white!
Also pretty neat that the gene responsible for cat colouring is called KIT, science proves we named kitties correctly.
pretty neat that the gene responsible for cat colouring is called KIT, science proves we named kitties correctly
Me side-eyeing the Sonic hedgehog protein that "regulates the embryonic morphogenesis in all animals". 😒
Wake up babe, new cat color just dropped.
Breaking: cats just dropped a new color
When will we get red Vines flavored cats?
Dude, you gotta stop eating cats, no matter what they taste like
Something, something, eating pussy, something.
Alf?!
This new cat color was detected around 5 megaparsecs distance from the Milky Way, in the general direction of the Leo constellation, using the Very Large Cat Ear Antenna Array at the 21 cm wavelength of the microwave part of the spectrum.
Cats with the unusual coat – known as ‘salmiak cats’ (which translates as ‘salty liquorice’)
A better translation would be ‘ammonium chloride’, because that’s what salmiak is.
Sometimes, words mean more than 1 thing...
That is salmiak flavored licorice, it’s not salmiak. Just like a bag of paprika flavoured crisps says ‘paprika’ on the front, doesn’t mean that paprika is another word for crisps.
The only relation between licorice and salmiak is that it’s used to flavour a specific type of licorice.
It’s also used in fertilizer, as flux for soldering or galvanizing metal, in batteries, and lots of other applications.
You can also buy salmiak powder as a form of candy on it’s own.
So...is that the candy is flavored like ammonium chloride?
I doubt many people how ammonium chloride tastes, whereas I think most do know what both salt and licorice taste like.
But it tastes nothing like salt and licorice. It tastes like salmiak (a.k.a. ammonium chloride). Who hasn’t had salmiak at least once in their life?
Salmiak is not popular worldwide. I love salmiak, but almost no one I mention it to is familiar with it.
Isn’t one of the main ingredients licorice root?
No. It is added to certain types of licorice candy to add flavor but salmiak is it’s own thing.
My chemistry teacher once made salmiak as a demonstration. The only experiment we were ever allowed to taste and quite cool to look at too.
I never connected that salmiakk the candy and salmiakk the cleaning liquid is the same thing until now.
Only matter of time before we get our rainbow-glitter cat.
Best news I've heard all year.
Damn, some months ago I came across a void for adoption that had very unusual white flecks on its body. Now I'm even more sad I didn't adopt him 😿
