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@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected] • 18 days ago

Cats can drink salt water

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Cats can drink salt water

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@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected] • 18 days ago
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    126•18 days ago

    Hey, look a feature every mammal may need to evolve in the near future!

    • Beacon
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      31•18 days ago

      Are oceans getting saltier? The glaciers that are melting are pure freshwater

      EDIT

      I’m not an expert but from a quick googling it seems the oceans are getting LESS salty

      https://www.llnl.gov/article/37921/atmospheric-warming-altering-ocean-salinity-and-water-cycle

      • @[email protected]
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        The issue is not more/less salt in the oceans, but fewer and less reliable sources of freshwater.

        • Match!!
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          3•18 days ago

          Which makes it the perfect time to evolve!

      • @[email protected]
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        8•18 days ago

        Oceans getting less salt

        Rivers and lakes in Canada getting more salt

        But I think they were referring to running out of reliable fresh water due to drought

      • @[email protected]
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        You’re halfway there! If the oceans are getting less salty, where else’s the extra water coming from?

        • Beacon
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          13•18 days ago

          I literally already said the answer to that in my original comment.

          • @[email protected]
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            I think that what SpaceNoodle is trying to say is that the decrease in ocean salinity is correlated to a decrease in fresh water, so even though salinity is dropping, adaptations need to be made because we will run out of fresh water.

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            4•17 days ago

            I literally already said the answer to that in my original comment.

            Uhh, no you didn’t? At least, not the way I interpret it.

            It looks like you were saying “oceans are getting less salty, and therefore this adaptation is less needed”. But @[email protected] was saying “the reason they’re getting less salty is because fresh water is becoming more scarce, and therefore the adaptations are more needed”.

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            4•18 days ago

            Sorry, I meant where else.

          • @[email protected]
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            6•18 days ago

            But why male models?

      • @[email protected]
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        8•18 days ago

        I suppose that’s only a short-term effect.
        Long-term prognosis should be the oceans getting saltier because of the rivers carrying salt into the oceans until the equilibrium between salt being carried into the oceans and salt being sedimented at the ocean bed has been restored.
        Well, in geological time frames ‘short-term’ can be quite a long timespan.

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      74•18 days ago

      Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop fucking cats.

      • @[email protected]
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        When was the right week?

        • @[email protected]
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          14•18 days ago

          Same week they started or ideally the one before that? 🤷

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        64•18 days ago

      • StinkyFingerItchyBum
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        9•18 days ago

        I’ve been fucking the dog for decades.

        • Prehensile_cloaca
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          9•18 days ago

          That’s a really old dog

          • @[email protected]
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            12•17 days ago

            Nah. He died when he was like six.

          • @[email protected]
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            1•17 days ago

            thats a really interesting username, got a story?

      • @[email protected]
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        6•17 days ago

        We need you back in the fight soldier, we need to make cat girls (and boys) a reality.

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          1•17 days ago

          Furrda!

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