KingGimpicus

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[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Iirc the closest modern day relative is some form of sea slug. How you go from spore to slug has got to be a wild journey

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Happened all the time. It just depends on the environment. Check out basically anything on the "Tully monster" if you want to know more.

Tully monsters are actually even older than OPs fossil and we have no idea where they came from or where they went, from an evolutionary perspective.

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pot is entirely legal in CA. Stoners are some of the most cautious and calm drivers on the road anymore.

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The guy just tried to kill a dozen people in a drunken rage and you think he should get a pass because the crowd caught him?

Fucker is lucky he wasn't physically pulled into pieces.

A bullet hole is the least of his worries right now.

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What about an opposite bridge where you cross under the river? Some sort of tubular subterranean structure. We could call them opposite bridges.

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 week ago

If people are learning, why is trump ready to sell off public land for resource exploitation?

All whites are bastards

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago

Good thing whites aren't a race. They're more like a conglomerate of historically privileged socioeconomic groups. ESPECIALLY the colonizers. Their whiteness is basically tradition at this point in history

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Good. Fuck the whites for building a lodge in a natural wonder like that in the first place.

Second, fuck the whites again for failing to actually care for the land they've conquered. I wish every colonizer and their spawn a very humid get fucked in the face.

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A planet is a pen without fences. You just have to expand your perspective. You've obviously never interacted with a farmer in your life if you've never heard them brag about how many animals they have on the property. And those are just the ones they can count. Im sure some crazy farmer somewhere in India would be mad proud of how many rats he's got running around. They're holy in certain parts.

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The pic says "of all the mammals on earth". It's exactly as i said with the pen, just scaled up to a 3d spherical planetary sized pen. The numbers I'm talking about don't change.

There are WAY more rats than cows. Period. They're on every continent except Antarctica, and there might be some weird subterranean prehistoric voles huddled around a hydrothermal vent pool or some shit.

OP just needs to add a qualifier to the graphic. Anything along the lines of "with respect to biomass" right at the start

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Okay, so you have 240 rats and one cow in a pen on a farm. How many mammals are in the pen?

This survey would answer that the pen is 90% cow and 10% rat by weight, therefore there are 9 times as many cows as there are rats.

In reality land, where the rest of us live, we would say that there are 241 mammals in the pen and only 1 of them is a cow.

You see why I'm calling bullshit by the way this is worded?

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Well thats not what the infographic says. It specifies "mammals", not "mammals by weight".

OK so how many tons of cow are accounted for by whales?

Or does the survey cherry pick land animals too?

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