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LillyPip

@ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

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  • Really feeling 10 September.

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  • He looks like a Pokémon. What does he evolve into?

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • This is why I don’t block, I just passively ignore.

    I want to watch idiots shout into the void. No interaction, no downvotes, nothing. Their impotent rage makes me smile as I move on. That’s my fetish.

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  • Man page me daddy.

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  • It works, DON’T TOUCH IT.

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  • That’s fair. Honestly, all of taxonomy is just lines we draw, and all of evolution is really a fuzzy gradient. We can’t even figure out where the line for ‘human’ begins, because that’s also a meaningless term, really.

    So the fact that we’re fish is as meaningful (or meaningless) as the fact that we’re human.

    (And thanks for the link! That’s a cool, uh, ‘fish’.)

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  • Sure, but isn’t the point that what we’d call ‘fish’ back when everything lived in the oceans, like pre-Devonian, the ancestors of all modern life?

    We can’t out-evolve our clade, so all land animals are fish? And also we’re all amphibians, and everything directly leading to us? Insects, plants, and fungi are separate, but we’re technically fish?

    Or am i misunderstanding that?

    (e: if there are no ‘fish tetrapods’, where did tetrapods come from?)

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  • Also people are fish. You can’t evolve out of your clade.

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  • It’s sneaking up on creationist levels of ‘science’, like where they argue recreations of Australopithecus are just ‘imagination’ and present their own version of Lucy as as a quadriped, completely ignoring the overwhelming evidence from her skeleton that she could not have walked that way (and also ignoring that we have hundreds of other specimens of her species).

    It really seems that lots of people’s conception of these fields is based on very outdated concepts, either unaware or ignoring all the evidence and advancements of the past 50 years or so.

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  • Also, as you move throughout your life, those attachments can cause stress in places that build up, and your bones will show all of that. For instance, even though all humans have the same soft tissue connection points, we can tell by a skeleton whether a person had a life of hard labour vs relative luxury, whether they were an archer with stronger and more stressed arm muscles, etc.

    If tail vertebrae, for instance, have spent their life supporting and moving a heavy amount of soft tissue, those connection points will look much different than a similar tail of skin and bone with far less weight to bear.

    So now, we have a pretty good idea not only where soft tissues attached, but their relative size, strength, and use.

  • Jerry Seinfeld says people who say 'Free Palestine' are worse than the Ku Klux Klan

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  • Most old, white comedians are fucking awful people. Who knew? /S

    These guys were always losers. They told us so, and we said ‘lol? They’re kidding! They’re like us!’ Then we made light of the fucking jerks in our own lives.

    But it turns out they actually were jerks or worse, and they’ve banded together enough that they think they can tell the rest of us what to do.

    We need to show them they can’t,

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  • Yes.

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  • I wasn’t being light with it. I’ve been there. They use far worse language than that. And I was trying to get across what they meant without making people vomit. It’s worse than people think. Many people shut down when we don’t speak on their level.

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  • Knowing these predators, worse.

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  • Right up there with ‘wonderful secrets’.

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  • I think the meaning is far worse and more twisted than that – such that I don’t want to say what I think they mean other than ‘broken in’.

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  • Right, because it’s totally normal to print a giant novelty check, take a group photo, then commemorate it in an album with a caption saying you brokered and sold a girl. Like, who among us hasn’t done this?

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  • Well yeah, because they have even more power to rig it next time. Obviously.