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Deceptichum@quokk.au to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish ·
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lay a while and listen

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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    me, a big fat guy

    I’m like an ant storing all this food. 😃

  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world
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    If we are supposed to lie around then why is it bad for our health

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      Because we’re also meant to move around.

      We’re not meant to do either all the time.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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        Not moving at all: Muscle atrophy.

        Moving too much: RSI.

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    I’m a little too good at acting as living food storage.

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      I think living food storage might be a requirement for multicellular life on earth. Who is acting? What am I James Lipton?

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    It’s sinister that all of life’s necessities are locked behind paywalls.

    • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Monstrous is what it is.

      The very concept of earning one’s living, as if we didn’t deserve to be alive without sacrificing said life for the privilege.

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    Is the living food storage part from like those honey or sap ants, where they have guys with those giant sacs of honey or sap to feed to whoever wants it?

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      Well that’s pretty cool if that’s it, my brain went straight to cannibalism

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        It’s called “social stomach”.

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          OUR food, comrade

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Sounds like a trait from Rimworld

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      I’m living food storage to myself.

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        You feed yourself off your large sac?

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    “it helps you deal with emergencies”

    Exactly why we are kept busy.

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    Too much activity prevents thinking

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      Maybe that’s what they want.

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    Reminds me of one of my favorite articles

    https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

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      Very interesting! Thank you for sharing

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    Hunter-gatherer groups had significantly more chill time.

    Once you find enough food, it’s chill time.

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    Way ahead of you sit-back-and-enjoy

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    I thought that said “anti biologist” at first

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      We’re called chemists, and it’s more of a friendly rivalry

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        Which makes biochemistry what you get when you combine something with its anti particle, organized chaos.

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      AKA “intelligent design”

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    But what about adipose tissue?

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    So you’re saying we have an evolutionary example of “eat the rich”? I say we get started - the ants gave us a blueprint.

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    The title is a gem. Decard Cain, you beautiful bastard.

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    Shouldn’t it be “lie around”?

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      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/lay-or-lie

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/how-to-use-lay-and-lie

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        Both of these confirm that yes, it is lie down

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