when sea cucumbers shit out their own intestines to deter predators, it is hardly remarkable. yet when I shit my pants whenever I see a muslim, it is seen as extraordinary. curious
me and the boys grabbing sea cukes off the seabed to spray each other with intestinal fluid
What fucking point does he think he's making here? Is there a context to this, or is it just a wet fart?
You might tell a 5 year old "spiders catch prey with nets, just like humans do! isn't that neat??"
Dawkins wants to elicit a 5 year old's excitement from an adult, so he tried saying "forget all you learned about spiders, now imagine if lions caught prey with nets just like humans, wouldn't that be neat? ...but such lions do exist! they're called spiders!"
Senility's getting him too.
I'm enjoying how he's being dragged in the replies, and how the people trying to defend him are utterly failing to come up with, you know, an actual defense.
See, on an intellectual level I know spiders are cool and good and comrades buuuuuuut... Nope nope nope nope nope.
I'm training my squad of tarantulas to do this right now.
lmfao I can't believe I use to think this guy was super cool and super smart fucking kill me hahahahahaa
I mean he at least was smart, ngl "the selfish gene" was where the concept of natural selection really clicked for me
the square-cube law
Ah, that's what it's called. I was forced to mutter "It doesn't scale up" between seeing this tweet and pinching the bridge of my nose.
Hot take: Critical support for Richard Dawkins in his battle to turn fundamentalist teenagers into annoying logic pedants.
Ngl, it was really important to me. Then he started talking about women and sjws lmao
I don't think I ever would have become a Marxist if I wasn't an annoying logic pedant
There were always gaps in the logic that just never made any fuckin sense (why would the Democrats do X bad thing? why is the deposit at work so much bigger than my paycheck when I'm doing all the work?) that I just never really had a good answer for, but had the dissonance klaxons blasting away in my brain. Marxism filled in those gaps almost perfectly.
I upvoted but I am withholding my critical support until you explain why having a whole bunch of Ben Shapiros is a good thing. Or was he just winged and didn't transform correctly?
Ben Shapiro scares me way less than people whose politics involve an end times prophecy.
Yeah, Ben Shapiro is smol bean (literally) compared to someone like fucking pompeo
I mean Ben Shapiro is still a religious zealot, for both Orthodox Judaism and Christian Fundamentalism.
Between borderline Islamophobia and cannibalism, this just reads like an endearing senile post from your science grandpa.
I think they mean that Dawkins' other tweets are islamophobic and, in at least on case, cannibalistic, and this is a welcome interlude
"I've long been looking forward to this"
And another example
(It is an interesting thought experiment, but he talks about it a little weirdly, and it's fun to take the piss)
I think he's focused on the wrong question. The ethical question isn't eating human burgers, but manufacturing them to begin with.
It's like asking, "is it ethical to eat people when all you have to eat is soylent green," when the real question should be "why the hell are we living in a society where soylent green is people, and how do we get out of it?"
(If you want to be a foodie and eat your human burgers just for the dilettantism then yes you can do it but no it's not ethical, just like eating a whale or something. There's no legitimate ethical purpose for these to exist, except, maybe, to sell them at $15k a pop and satiate the needs of the world's 50 hungry cannibals or something? In which case you need a medical prescription and it goes on your government records. Either way, I solved your ethical dilemma Dawkins, give me a nobel prize for ethics.)
Also in more "breaking" animal news shaved bears look like unused concept art from Pan's Labyrinth.
Animal "news" is unpredictable, but does anyone remember that python that exploded eating an alligator? Shit was confusing to look at and terrifying and also had a sublime body horror element.
Eugenics doesn't work in practice, why do you think purebred dogs have so many health problems?
I like the inclusion of "headline news" lol. It's 2020, even if lions spun webs it wouldn't be news it would just be a cool/horrifying fact about lions. Is he mad about spider representation in media right now? Is he thinking about the time in kindergarten when Billy made fun of him for saying spiders are his favorite animals?
Shoutout to 19 year old me who bought The God Delusion and became an aggressive atheist for 3 years.
Shit that was me at 16 and I can't stop cringing looking back
Say what you want, but I can hold hands with a girl without a drink thrown at me in no small part due to atheists. Secular humanists to be specific. Not the amazing atheist to gamer gate crowd
Man, how fucking awesome would it be if lions shit out steel-cable strength webs to catch prey? Imagine how many European colonizers would have gotten eaten by giant Lion-Spiders.
when i spin a web of lies and deceit i expect to be recognized :(
