Botryllus schlosseri, also called a star tunicate, is humans’ closest evolutionary relative among invertebrates in the sea. […] The way the invertebrate’s brain degenerates and disappears has important parallels to the way the brain degenerates in human neural disorders.

also the maelstrom in question actually does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen

looking closer I see the earliest archive.org snapshot of this URL (from Feb 27, 2020, the day it was published) also says 1857 so it seems like the transposition to 1847 must have happened somewhere else - and yet the attribution to SciAm (external to the screenshot) was somehow preserved. @nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world can you shed any light on this mystery? where did you obtain this image (and know to attribute it to SciAm)?

apparently in 1857 “I have been informed by a European acquaintance” was sufficient sourcing for something to be published in Scientific American :)

somewhat relatedly, it’s 2025 now so you can actually link to a thing instead of just posting a screenshot of it: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/that-giant-sucking-sound-doesnt-exist/

i wonder why this screenshot (and OP’s text which includes the fact that this comes from scientific american, which is not included in the screenshot) both say 1847 while the text on the SciAm website says it’s actually from 1857 🤔

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you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them”

pretty sure it was legal according to their own laws…

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

compare the rendering of the test output (which i also wrapped in backticks to tell the markdown rendering to render it as code) in my other comment on lemmy vs on piefed.

Essentially, it is not possible to reliably identify the URLs in code (in a language that is not known to either PyFedi or its markdown parser), because they sometimes are adjacent to otherwise-URL-valid characters which actually terminate the URL in whatever syntax is being used inside the code block. So, even though it is sometimes harmless to auto-linkify inside a code block, it is also often wrong and therefore should not be (and generally is not) done.

But also, code formatting should be available as a way to disable auto-linkification when a post or comment author wants to (as I did in my original comment).

For some reason this post caused me to search to see if there are types of birdseed which are not suitable for ducks. From a few minutes of reading, I’m relatively sure now that at least all common types of birdseed are fine for them. But, along the way, I found this LLM slop https://plantnative.org/can-ducks-eat-bird-seed.htm (URL rendered unclickable since it is spam) which strongly implies that ducks are not in fact birds:

• “Yes, ducks do eat bird seed. Although bird seeds are specifically prepared to meet the nutrient demand of birds. But still, bird seed can be served as a snack to ducks in limited amounts.”
• “Bird seeds are loaded with nutrients and can be beneficial for ducks the way they are for birds.”