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[-] Substance_P@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago

Now Trump is the first president in history to be outwitted by a single-celled organism...

[-] john_t@piefed.ee 37 points 1 month ago

He was also outwitted by a virus, even lower on the evolutionary scale.

[-] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Algoe are mostly multicellular, if fact they might all be idk. Your point stands undeniable though, he's dumb as shit.

Ok, it bothered me so I looked it up, some are multicellular and some not. Some are 50 feet long or some shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae#Uses

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 12 points 1 month ago

Generally unrelated, but there's a type of algae (acetabularia) that looks like it should be multicellular, its a macroscopic "plant" with a clear if simple structure, with roots, a stem, and a mushroom cap looking plate on top. But, its actually a single celled organism, and unlike many other single celled organisms that are big enough to see, which often have multiple cell nuclei and effectively act like multiple cells just without the walls separating them, it only has one nucleus as well. Algae are weird.

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Hmmm

I'm simultaneously elated and deeply disturbed that this thing exists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetabularia

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

It doesn't help that cyanobacteria exist and are also referred as blue-green algae.

[-] Substance_P@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah I looked it up before posting, and although there are many common types of green algae, (many that are not single celled) the genus Desmodesmus or often clasified as Scenedesmus algae is said to be the single celled version here.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa

one of the largest known unicellular organisms!

[-] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago

Strangely enough, paying 300 billion dollars to the pool might actually result in victory here.

Or some really expensive paint, idk.

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

We're not going to be able to make fun of Australia for losing to a bunch of birds anymore, are we?

[-] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

That ship sailed a long time ago, this is like a footnote in the index

[-] froh42@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The US will pay $300B to Algeria.

[-] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I hate to argue against the presiden't latest dumbassery, but he's arguing someone took a box cutter and cut a slit 350 feet long.

If someone did you that, it would be a failure of his administration to not catch them on the spot well before they got that far.

This is beyond stupid, not worth responding to except for the poor bastards the feds are trying to run through the meat grinder to cover up the president corruptly giving a contract to his partners that kickback to him.

[-] jode@pawb.social 16 points 1 month ago

The fact that people believe this tells me the lot of them have never participated in a single second of manual labour. You go drag a box cutter 10 feet across a similar surface and tell me what that blade looks like haha.

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

350 ft. is no joke. I think someone would have to be on their hands and knees dragging that knife across a distance longer that the Statue of Liberty is tall (by 49 ft.)!

[-] valek879@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

If only someone had a graphic made comparing the statue of Liberty and the reflecting pool side by side then I'd truly understand the scale!

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Well, if it helps, the Eiffel Tower is almost 109 elephants tall and the slit is about a third of the height of the Eiffel Tower...so approximately 36 elephants tall in length. Does that help?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

no i still can't comprehend it in anything other than bongo drums

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I'm gonna need it in Smoots or millifurlongs

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

for official measurements (I do love the Smoot) my favorite is the ever-useful chain

[-] trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe add a Banana for scale?

[-] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

It would take an hour or more even if the blade didn't get dulled which it would immediately as you say, and be totally obvious.

The national mall is crawling with LE and cameras. You can't even set a backpack down without them swarming on it like it's an ied.

[-] Substance_P@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Wait, I think I found the culprit.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

so this is what megatron did to you, ironhide

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

maybe they were wearing green and held their breath

[-] EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

"We"? As an American I'm rooting for the algae.

[-] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

This is more embarrassing than my country losing the Emu wars, algae cannot run away...

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

I always thought that the premise was hilarious but also tragic. The reason that machine guns were so brutally effective was because humans were literally walked into their muzzles. Emus were much smarter and decided to NOT do that and had no Field Marshall Haig to force them to do so. Apparently the Australians never considered that possibility...

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

unfortunately for the Australians, the Emus had enlisted Major Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith, formerly of the Royal Australian Artillery Corps, and Sir George Pierce marched the Ozzies straight into the Emu guns.

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago
[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

"What are we losing?"

"Yes."

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Decisive Algal victory

[-] YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Why aren't we talking about the Biden administration? Where was the Biden administration when the Emu Wars were being lost?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

... at least emus are capable of group tactics, christ what an embarassment.

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

To be fair, the United States does not have much as centralized leadership either...

[-] heliotrope@retrofed.com 2 points 1 month ago

Where are these from?

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