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Hyperlynx posted:I was under the impression that the British controlled India for a few decades, maybe like 50 years? John Company was the worst corporation that has ever existed. It makes Monsanto look as pure as the driven snow.
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Uh, hmm, the Royal Africa co. was not very good otherwise as well
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:This badass 1970s LOTR poster I had on my wall when I was a kid: I also had this poster, and looked it up a few years ago to the same surprise. Tell you what, searching for "the hobbit poster" in 2017 and trying to avoid the movie was difficult. e: gollum long arms drawn -"Peter Jackson" -movie
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Wee brain: Whales are fish! Not so wee brain: Whales are mammals, and therefore not fish. Huge brain: Cladistically, all tetrapods are fish, therefore whales are fish
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Phy posted:Wee brain: Whales are fish! Very strong Herman Melville energy, seemed like 40 chapters of Moby Dick had this exact breakdown.
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"Call me fish" - Whale
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Uncut sheets of US banknotes are legal tender. Wozniak famously got uncut sheets of bills and then made a perforated pad of $2 bills. He would tear them off to pay for things.
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exquisite tea posted:"Call me fish" - Whale Oh I bet you think you're so clever. Well you are. For once
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Uh, hmm, the Royal Africa co. was not very good otherwise as well Makers of Axe body spray
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What would be the last common ancestor of snakes and birds?
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Tree Bucket posted:What would be the last common ancestor of snakes and birds? Something in this group https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauria
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Uh, hmm, the Royal Africa co. was not very good otherwise as well Beginning to think these ruthless imperialist bastards might not have been the nicest people
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Enby and nimby are not the same.
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Tree Bucket posted:What would be the last common ancestor of snakes and birds? The cockatrice
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The nursehound is also called a dogfish but is actually a species of catshark  it's also different from the nurse shark. And not one of them is a mammal.
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NFX posted:The nursehound is also called a dogfish but is actually a species of catshark And also not related to the catfish at all (well, other than being fish*) since catfish are ray-fined fish and catsharks are cartilaginous fish . *But even that's a pretty loose connection, gotta kind of go all the back to Chordata, so as much relation to each other as there is to us...sort of...but not really, cause, surprise surprise, the system of classification we use for all life on earth developed like 250 years ago isn't really perfect. V V V Not just animals, but those might be the most bonkers. V V V
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Animal classification is just clownshoes nonsense.
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Philippe posted:Animal classification is just clownshoes nonsense. if animals don't have classes why are fish in schools
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Philippe posted:Animal classification is just clownshoes nonsense. The President can telepathically declassify animals.
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DrBouvenstein posted:V V V Not just animals, but those might be the most bonkers. V V V An oldie but still good. Plants are wild: https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/
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The pharma company Janssen existed before they were acquired and became a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary. It wasn't like some J&J rebrand for the Benelux market.
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NFX posted:An oldie but still good. Plants are wild: I didn't actually read the article, so I'm just going off the title. "Tree" is a descriptive term for woody plants above a certain height. A very young oak would not count as a "tree," even though most people think of oaks as trees, for example. There is no taxonomic group that is "trees." Similarly how there is no scientific group that is "vegetables." Calling something a vegetable is a descriptive/culinary term. Perfectly valid, just not a scientific term. And if you want to get extra wacky, taxonomically speaking, there is also no such thing as a fish!
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Silver Falcon posted:Similarly how there is no scientific group that is "vegetables." Calling something a vegetable is a descriptive/culinary term. Perfectly valid, just not a scientific term. Been a medical term too
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Post Malone is not a rapper but a popper.
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Grassy Knowles posted:if animals don't have classes why are fish in schools Supposedly fish don't categorically exist
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caspergers posted:Supposedly fish don't categorically exist Lungfish and coelacanth are more closely related to humans than pretty much anything else you'd call a fish.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Lungfish and coelacanth are more closely related to humans than pretty much anything else you'd call a fish. Humans go to schools too so we’re fish
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Fish exist and they've secretly taken over the world.
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The most specific group that includes everything we consider fish is vertebrates.
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Baron von Eevl posted:The most specific group that includes everything we consider fish is vertebrates. Feels like the hagfish gets through on a technicality here
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Baron von Eevl posted:The most specific group that includes everything we consider fish is vertebrates. sea anemone are kinda fish
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Birds are reptiles.
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pik_d posted:Bats are bugs They don’t bug me
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pik_d posted:Bats are bugs
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pik_d posted:Bats are bugs okay that's over the line
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pik_d posted:Bats are bugs Good night, don't let the bat bugs bite.
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Everyone knows bats are the spirits of children who died without being baptised cursed to roam the night and torment the living until the apocalypse when they will be judged and finally receive some rest.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Everyone knows bats are the spirits of children who died without being baptised cursed to roam the night and torment the living until the apocalypse when they will be judged and finally receive some rest. Judged on how well they tormented the living? Do they get into super heaven if they give a toddler rabies?
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The Moon Monster posted:Judged on how well they tormented the living? Do they get into super heaven if they give a toddler rabies? Yes, because there is the chance they could be creating its own replacement in the process; and that is rewarded.
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