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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (12 children)

They dont. It just happens that natural selection favored flowers that looked vaguely bird like and over time, flowers that looked more and more like a bird outcompeted the ones that looked less like one.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I rewatched Annihilation recently. That fucking bear scene still haunts me. Great film.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (6 children)

"..how birds look like.."

Just one of many issues with the English here.

  • what it looks like
  • how it looks

You need to pick a lane.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No they're asking how do birds look like the way they do. In which case the answer is that a bird's body evolved to be streamlined and lightweight in order to fly more efficiently. /s

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you understand what was being communicated? Yes? Congratulations!

Because, really, that's generally all that's necessary.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'd read this with commas around 'like', rather than with a period after it: "... how birds look, like, I'm afraid" works as a sentence while "... how birds look like. I'm afraid" is both wrong, like you point out, but also sounds much more serious than the jokey tone I'd expect from a message without punctuation and capitalization

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I typically assume it's a non-native speaker with things like this, but I'm not sure in this case.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Appear to look like"...

I wonder what they look like if you manage to ignore the appearances.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

My guess would be Yulan magnolia blossoms.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Why are people so unfathomably dumb, like, I'm afraid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, some people can't even recognize a joke.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Right, anytime anyone fucks up it's sarcasm, anytime anyone is dumb, it's a joke, nothing is real, everything is a cake.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

“Science memes”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Are you trying to suggest that your use of punctuation is sarcastic?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

i like cake

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

People don't get the timescale of a evolutionary feature like this. And how long it was only kinda bird like.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it. But yeah either trolling or actually stupid who knows.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it.

LOL, how meta ("people haven't evolved to understand evolution").

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

*gestures broadly*

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I mean you just gotta use that big ass evolved brain of yours to understand evolution. No more extra evolution necessary at this point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I do wish that the personification of evolution wasn't such a thing. People so often attribute reasoning or intention to the process, when there is no such thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Wait until they advance and start thinking about things like, how did plants find out what bees like to eat. This will spook them to mind-blown town.

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