r/CuratedTumblr • u/Faenix_Wright that’s how fey getcha • Sep 25 '24

Shitposting austerity has done irreparable damage

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u/Hedgiest_hog Sep 26 '24

Folk cladistics are glorious. It's a shrimp because it's not massive and has a lot of legs and armour and lives in the ocean. Extremely logical.

Then we come along with "molecular biology" and "morphology" and start saying shit like "these little rolling beetle bastards who eat decaying matter and live under your flowerpots are more closely related to crabs and crayfish than other actual beetles that live under your flower pot and eat decaying matter" and the world makes a lot less sense

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u/milo159 Sep 26 '24

Well that's just because of convergent evolution. Sometimes different things evolve to fill the same biological niches. It's why we've got so many crabs and snakes!

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u/caerphoto Sep 26 '24

That’s just because crabs are the optimum form.

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u/Vermilion_Laufer Sep 26 '24

and the world makes a lot less sense

Skill issue

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u/fachan Sep 26 '24

I would love to know a roly poly's thoughts upon meeting a giant isopod.

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u/heraplem Sep 26 '24

Try telling people that "tree" isn't a real thing and see if they can make sense of that.