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Cake day: June 9th, 2024

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zonetocats@lemmy.worldWorkout
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    22 hours ago

    I see the original further down but how can you tell?? I couldn’t tell at first but now I see some weird things about this one. But also the face of the cat is nicer in this one? And the composition is more balanced with the pile of paper in the bottom left?

    How and or why did this version even get made?

    We live in a strange and scary world



  • Good starting point, but the eventually does a lot of heavy lifting here.

    When plants move into a new area, they can sometimes outcompetes the species already present very effectively, and can spread unchecked, dominating the landscape and creating a monoculture. However a monoculture is more vulnerable to pestilence or disease, so eventually in years, decades, or who knows how long, a disease may spread in bamboo suppressing the population, or some new pest may evolve a way to eat bamboo more effectively and spread rapidly. Or other plants may develop other strategies. Again, in a matter of years or centuries or who knows, bamboo can become balanced out by these factors and become enmeshed in a more stable food web / ecology, which may not resemble the ecology which existed before bamboo came to that area.

    P.S. I recommend reading a book called Semiosis by Sue Burke. It’s all about humans who make a colony on an alien world, and over the span of nine generations develop a symbiosis with the plant species there, which are sentient.