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    ickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

    Cats can drink salt water

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    Cats can drink salt water

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    ickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 day ago
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    • muzzle@lemmy.zip
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      Hey, look a feature every mammal may need to evolve in the near future!

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

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

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            Furrda!

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          When was the right week?

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

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          I’ve been fucking the dog for decades.

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            That’s a really old dog

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              Nah. He died when he was like six.

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              thats a really interesting username, got a story?

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

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        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

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          The issue is not more/less salt in the oceans, but fewer and less reliable sources of freshwater.

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            Which makes it the perfect time to evolve!

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          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

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          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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          You’re halfway there! If the oceans are getting less salty, where else’s the extra water coming from?

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

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              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 @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 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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              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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              But why male models?

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              Sorry, I meant where else.

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