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  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    What fucking point does he think he's making here? Is there a context to this, or is it just a wet fart?

    • kilternkafuffle [any]
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      4 years ago

      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.

  • NotARobot [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    lmfao I can't believe I use to think this guy was super cool and super smart fucking kill me hahahahahaa

    • garbology [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

  • p_sharikov [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Hot take: Critical support for Richard Dawkins in his battle to turn fundamentalist teenagers into annoying logic pedants.

    • RedArmor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Oh hi, it’s me in high school after readingThe God Delusion.

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

    • TheOldRazzleDazzle [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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?

      • p_sharikov [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Ben Shapiro scares me way less than people whose politics involve an end times prophecy.

      • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I mean Ben Shapiro is still a religious zealot, for both Orthodox Judaism and Christian Fundamentalism.

  • pee_poopoogieg [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Between borderline Islamophobia and cannibalism, this just reads like an endearing senile post from your science grandpa.

      • evilgiraffemonkey [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I think they mean that Dawkins' other tweets are islamophobic and, in at least on case, cannibalistic, and this is a welcome interlude

            • TheOldRazzleDazzle [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              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.)

    • TheOldRazzleDazzle [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

  • CarlMarksToeCheese [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    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?

      • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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

  • CommunistDog [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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.