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And my axe! Oh, that didn’t make two worms, just one dead worm in two pieces…
The fundamental problem is that cladistic terms will kind of inevitably become general descriptors of any lifeform that looks/behaves similarly, which is immediately clear when you look at any scifi/fantasy stuff.
If an alien animal fills the same niche as salmon do on earth, then we’re gonna call it a salmon, and poof suddenly it’s no longer monophyletic.
IMO it’s either basically just lizards, which i think is perfectly fine since dinosaurs and even crocodilians aren’t that reptilian to me.
Or reptile has nothing to do with phylogeny and is instead just a physical description, like “fish” and “tree”.Really the only thing that seems particularly similar between lizards and crocodilians is that they have a splayed posture and scaly skin, which is kinda like grouping together humans with ostriches and kangaroos because we walk upright on two legs…
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•If I go crazy will you still call me Superman?English
2·1 hour agowe’re also quite weak against… most things, on the whole. It’s more a matter of what doesn’t instantly kill us
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Gaming@lemmy.world•POV: your modding habit has become a problemEnglish
2·3 hours agohonestly mods with insane licenses like that should just be left to die, they are a blight upon video games as a whole.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deto
Gaming@lemmy.world•POV: your modding habit has become a problemEnglish
1·3 hours agorunning in the gzdoom engine
sounds like the complainers aren’t rich enough then, you just need to get a monstertruck with suspension that lets you barely feel running over an elephant.
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news@lemmings.world•Zelenskyy says he wishes for Putin to ‘die’ in Christmas messageEnglish
1·7 days agothe ones that push it for personal gain, get turned into artificial satellites around the moons of jupiter.
the ones that mistakenly actually believe it, extensive probing to determine where their brains broke, and then therapy until they’re cured.
Terminal, (s)even.
yeah it’s much smarter to have all your belongings taken away by debt collectors
that just sounds comedic to me, like you’re putting on a comedy gothenburg dialect
do you think it’s gross to wash your hands in the sink? if not, why is it magically gross to drink the water from the tap?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deto
Memes of Production@quokk.au•capitalism is killing the planet
1·7 days agoso like, why are you here? you cannot genuinely believe this nonsense and yet have the will to live.
The fact that you spend your time commenting on the internet shows that you don’t actually believe what you say.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deto
Memes of Production@quokk.au•capitalism is killing the planet
2·7 days agoit’s not purity testing, it’s astroturfing. I’m convinced 90% of these kinds of comments are made by paid actors to make people think vegans and vegetarians are miserable shitheads who hate them.
lmao okay, so that effectively just means “nothing i say holds any value, i am going to flee at the slightest hint of people not immediately agreeing with me”.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deto
science@lemmy.world•Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thoughtEnglish
1·8 days agoi mean yeah, different scientists, significantly later
or what, do you have to agree with everyone that came before you because you’re a human and they were also humans??
i’m always astounded that stuff like this isn’t considered obviously blasphemous, isn’t the religion supposed to be serious and a matter of your fucking soul? why are we using startup names for religious apps?
At least for hindu stuff it might make sense, there’s definitely some chill hindu deities that have humor.





hey now be fair, there are absolutely sports fans who think the teams they dislike would be paid too much if their salary consisted of lethal injections.