Zinc?! I never could live without zinc …

Ah well, good to hear that at least, and never mind then.

“Did you try erasing everything from the beginning and letting it reemerge again?”

You mean this one, right? But it looks so cute <3

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

I don’t remember the details, but wasn’t there a massive genetic bottleneck event in early (modern?) human prehistory?

Could be fun if it didn’t happen and we were more genetically diverse!

Most sensible answer yet (maybe not the most exciting one though ;) )

Sorry you got sick!

First on a big container ship, then on a midsize cruise ship, then on a riverboat, then on a two-person inflatable paddle boat. When I finally clung to a pool noodle, I realized it was time to get rid of the tattoo and return to the shore.

I for one never doubted you for a second.

Number 5 made me rethink my life, get an anchor tattoo and turn to the sea.

Starch is the nourishing part in a lot of our staple foods (potatos, cereals etc.) and easily digestible. Cellulose is a major component of wood (and cotton and paper) and of what we call “fiber” in our food, the stuff we cannot digest.

Both starch and cellulose are long, sometimes interlinked chains of glucose molecules. The only difference is at which corner of each glucose molecule the next is attached.

Another one about cheese: The cheese blocks you can get at the super market are reasonably small-portioned food items. The moon is a celestial body revolving around the Earth at a distance of around 250,000 miles, yet both are made from the same material. Makes you think.

@m3t00@lemmy.world solved it, “tufted titmouse” is the name :)

Looks like it, thank you!

Those birds are so beautiful (and, seen from Europe, exotic). (No shade to the raccoon.)

What’s the name of the lowest one, the small one with the crest?

Whoah! There is a star constellation Berenice’s Hair*, and suddenly it’s connected to a name I know!

*just a line with an angle

Probably no use for you, but interesting nonetheless: In Bavaria, Germany, Veronika is shortened to “Vroni”, with the v pronounced as an f and with the o spoken long (so, not short like in Ronnie).

“Do it!”

Squaring off

All fun and games until you realize your income is largely dependent on tips…

Some other German ones:

Nick for Niklas and Nick/Niko for Nikolaus
Matze for Martin
Sepp for Josef
Kathi, Katta and Kadda for Katharina and Kathrin
Alex for Alexander and Alexandra
Vicki for Viktoria
Schorsch (not spoken with an English accent) for Georg
Bert for Berthold
Basti and Sebi for Sebastian
Gabi for Gabriele
Siggi for Siegfried and Sieglinde
Uschi for Ursula

And of course English nicknames for German names, e.g. Jules for Julian, Dave for David.