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agamemnonymous, to memes in Gotta stay grounded.
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agamemnonymous, to risa in Every race needs at least one.
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I think humanoid is a perfectly logical end-state for any terrestrial species that develops technology:

Gotta get energy somehow, consumption is more energy dense than autotrophy, so need a mouth. Gotta find the stuff to put in mouth, so need sense organs, closer to mouth is better. Light is generally the best medium for sensing, so eyes eventually. Two eyes are way better than one for depth perception, but three is inefficient energy investment with seriously diminishing returns.

Gotta move around in a gravity well to get to your food, so you need some kind of limbs. In the beginning, before developing the sophisticated nervous system necessary for dynamic locomotion, four is the minimum so you can remain stable on three limbs while you move the fourth.

Gotta start banging rocks together if you want tech, so you need hands of some kind, and two free limbs. By this point, your nervous system should be sophisticated enough to allow dynamic locomotion, but you still need at least two “legs” to move relative to each other to move on the ground in a gravity well.

I would expect most technological species with similar heritage to humans to look roughly humanoid. There are plenty of other forms, but I feel like they’d be selected against.

agamemnonymous, to memes in Sorry guys, we had a good run
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As I’ve said, if you convince everyone who considers their environmental impact to not have children, who does that leave having children? What becomes of the environment when it’s only the environmentally negligent raising future generations?

agamemnonymous, to lemmyshitpost in Trying to lose weight?
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No sweat

agamemnonymous, to lemmyshitpost in Trying to lose weight?
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There are a bunch of different varieties! Sometimes the bumps on smaller cukes will even have little spikes.

agamemnonymous, to lemmyshitpost in Trying to lose weight?
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Okay, dunno why you brought it up then.

agamemnonymous, to lemmyshitpost in Trying to lose weight?
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Strange, most slicer varieties have at least some bumps, though not as pronounced as most picking varieties. Maybe you’re used to Persians?

agamemnonymous, to lemmyshitpost in Trying to lose weight?
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Those bumps are very cucumber

agamemnonymous, to lemmyshitpost in Trying to lose weight?
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That would be a nightmare to actually eat, the skin is fully intact.

Now, slice the cucumber normally and make little finger sandwiches with it, and that’s actually pretty appealing.

agamemnonymous, to memes in fr fr ong
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“That’s fire” has an Urban Dictionary entry from 2007.

agamemnonymous, to memes in Whoops
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Why not just have Scotty beam your shit out directly?

agamemnonymous, to memes in Sorry guys, we had a good run
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All I’m saying is that there’s a logical breakdown at play. Any argument in favor of “the environment” had to be based on the value of individual life. I’m not even saying that we shouldn’t be moderating our population growth, we should. I’m just saying the environmentally friendly angle is a logically strange argument, from first principles.

agamemnonymous, to memes in Sorry guys, we had a good run
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Don’t know how you jumped to that conclusion, but okay.

agamemnonymous, to memes in Sorry guys, we had a good run
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Framing not having kids as conscientious means only the unconscientious will have kids. That is an everyone problem.

agamemnonymous, to memes in Sorry guys, we had a good run
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Sure. But your framing of not having children as “environmentally friendly”, if embraced, results in only the unconscientious people having kids. That’s literally the premise of Idiocracy.

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