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Good to see someone caring about BiLions (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 70 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thanks for saving them

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 50 points 2 months ago

The lions are being bi now? They must have learned it from the tourists!!!

[-] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also lions

[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 30 points 2 months ago

BiLiON pride.

[-] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 months ago

They're turning the freaking lions bi

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 12 points 2 months ago

I didn't know Lions could be Bi. You learn something new everyday...

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

They learned from tourists.

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

Well, if you look at any animal species, assume variations to occur. There are so many different sexes, genders and sexualities out in the animal kingdom, but our society's cisheterosexual bias has conditioned us to believe that all animals are straight and cis...

As a reading suggestion you may look into Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

It was just my lame attempt at being funny. I'm fully aware that the animal kingdom is as diverse in sexuality as our own. ;)

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

Aw sorry, didn't get the irony in your original statement...

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it can be a bit tough to get across in text format. XD

[-] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

According to my buddy who worked for Dow, part of these "savings" apparently was taking a hatchet to their R&D segment with a bunch of spray-and-pray layoffs (apparently a common happening these days). I realize Dow is mostly commodity chemicals these days which is much more preservative in nature than other segments of the chemical industry, but even so it sounds like they are killing any hope of competing with new technologies and moving to the "squeeze as much as possible out before it goes tits up" stage.