Holy fish, I see it.

Speak for yourself.

They are on some instances.

Yeah, drugs and looking into lasers will definitely change your brain, no doubt. Dunno if I want advice from someone who does that, tho…

Seems so.

This is why aliens avoid us. Whenever we discover something, we either try to eat, enslave, or fuck it. Sometimes all 3.

Really feeling 10 September.

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

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.

Man page me daddy.

It works, DON’T TOUCH IT.

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’.)

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?)

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

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It really seems that lots of people’s conception of these fields is based on very outdated concepts, either unaware or ignoring all the evidence and advancements of the past 50 years or so.

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.

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,

Yes.

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.

Looks like Joel Pashcow (looks like the guy in the photo with Epstein):

https://lemmy.ca/comment/18848873