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m_f, to lemmyshitpost in Prehistoric shitposting
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I find it pretty amazing how someone figured out how to make cassava edible. It’s got enough cyanide to kill you unless it goes through some complex process of mashing and boiling. Who thought to themselves “this killed Greg, but maybe it’ll be delicious if I boil it for a little longer”?

m_f, to science_memes in uhhh uhhhhh
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Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

m_f, to science_memes in Can't we just talk about it without the maths? Guys?
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Yeah exactly, though then you’d generally get arguments pushing you towards “But it’s actually totes Jesus”.

m_f, to science_memes in Can't we just talk about it without the maths? Guys?
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The argument I’ve heard is “It must stop somewhere, and whatever it stops at, we’ll call that god”. It’s not a good argument, because it then hopes that you conflate the Judeo-Christian deity with that label and make a whole bunch of assumptions.

It’s often paired with woo that falls down to simply asking “Why?”, such as “Nothing could possibly be simpler than my deity”

m_f, to thefarside in 26 October 2023
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantor

Tantor is a generic name for elephants in Mangani, the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In Burroughs’s works a number of elephants appear under the name of Tantor, most notably one particular bull elephant the ape man befriends in his youth in the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes and in the 1999 Animated Walt Disney film he is a red African Forest Elephant and friends with the ape Terk.

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