reading humankind has been so fucking fascinating and in a way, its a relief to find out that hope and wanting to be good almost seems to be encoded in our dna, that we evolved to prize all these traits, and that people in power whi abuse it are truly outliers
honestly the human brain is so small that you *will* forget how much beauty there is out there to experience unless you leave your house every three days. ik its fucked up but i promise its true
my brain, trying to deceive me: there’s literally nothing outside!!!!! it’s the same neighborhood it’s always been !!!!!
me, tying my shoes: shut up shut up!!!! by god we’re gonna try to find magic in mundane today !!!!
The difference between Trees and Fish, written on my phone so not one of my better formatted posts:
Fish evolved the one time. Pretty much all vertebrates outside of tetrapods were considered fish. And these animals have much in common with their anatomy.
Tetrapods also have those things in common. In fact, a lot of the quirks of tetrapod anatomy are directly because we are descended from fish. We can’t call all those other things fish without including tetrapods, not just because we descend from them, but also because we have a lot in common. We are walking fish.
Tree was never really a taxonomic thing to begin with. Turns out, it’s really advantageous for a plant to evolve as tall as it can. Turns out, it’s easier to do that if you have more support, like wood. So different plant groups evolved tree shapes multiple times. So tree was never really about their relationships or anything, and we don’t need to call all plants trees. This is much more similar to the “all crustaceans eventually become crab” phenomenon than it is to the fish - tetrapod one.
Hope that helps!
Also, by the way, we’ve always defined dinosaurs as a family group; so even if we throw out the word fish, birds remain dinosaurs. That’s just a fact now.
hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
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