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  • Oh yeah, I should’ve said “the disease” but I was already talking about flu epidemics in my head.

    Good note, thanks, but for other people, as I understand the difference very well and would never suggest antibiotics as a treatment to virus-borne disease. And the evolution of bacteria is very different from viruses. Hell, we haven’t even decided if viruses are technically living or not. Anyway, good point


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    3 months ago

    And the virus evolved to be less deadly and people evolved to have better immune responses to it.

    The “Spanish Flu” still exists, and is all around us. Endemic to humanity. Meaning the H1N1-subtype of the influenza virus. Which killed 50-100 million people in 1918-1920. (Nowadays it’s called the seasonal flu)

    I’d like to find an image of anti-antivaxxers, from around that time. They had some good burns against the silly antivaxxers and I just can’t remember what they were.





  • I’m sure you were very good, but I doubt that you had that good a name memory as a five-year old.

    I taught myself how to read as well, so I ain’t the dullest of pens either but somehow I just doubt you could’ve rattled off that many correct names and titles as a five-year old. Although, it might just be projection from my almost 40-year old weed-smoking soon-to-be-some-serious-memory-problem having ass. If so, apologies.



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    Literally everything in Africa has evolved to run away from humans, because when animals hear human speech and don’t run away they get eaten or domesticated.

    When you look at a map of domesticated animals origins, not a single one comes from Africa. All the animals there know what humans are like no matter how we try fooling them.

    Oh yah here’s the video sourcing that shit I just listened to today https://youtu.be/EqGxxWvDXsM



  • Ishmael aims to expose that several widely accepted assumptions of modern society, such as human supremacy,

    Click link, go to “anthropocentrism”.

    Bro I can believe people are smarter than other animals and still not believe we’re the best or most valuable or worthiest or anything like that.

    I know dogs are not as smart as me, but they’re sure as fuck better people than me.



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    7 months ago

    American

    Very ethnocentric of you. I first heard it from Stephen Fry, so no, not literally zero people.

    Also, it’s literally the first definition there. That’s the definition of the species in hemiptera. Just because you don’t know anyone who knows orders of animals in latin doesn’t mean we don’t exist.

    I for one always enjoyed reading taxonomy, especially because sometimes translating a species can be quite weird if you don’t know the translation and have to essentially hope that the yellow-breasted warbler is the thing they also described it as in the other language. Sometimes it’s another feature.

    But I’m sure you’d know roughly what I mean if I refer to the order of primates. Possibly the infraorder cetacean as well. Especially if you’ve watched Star Trek religiously.

    Stephen Fry on Insects, and the beauty of nature and Evolution

    That’s the wrong clip but i can’t be arsed to find it