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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Username doesn't check out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Uhm lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Neil Degrasse Tyson tier reply

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

username doesn't check out...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  1. there is no scientific definition of "bug". the entire category is a social construct much like vegetables
  2. this person's first sentence defined spiderd as insects and the second sentence said they weren't
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

TIL, vegetables are a social construct.

This article illustrates this nicely:
https://athensscienceobserver.com/2019/09/30/vegetables-are-a-social-construct/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They are missing some punctuation where it was desperately needed but imagine a comma or period after " spiders are not bugs" and reread.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ah yes, thank you, my bad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

All good my dude... It didn't make sense to me on my first past either so I figured that it might have gotten you in the same spot too. Just glad to see the community is not throwing down votes at ya anymore, because your comment just felt like an honest misread. Cheers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Neither of those two sentences define the spider as either insect or non insect. Did you even read them?

*Edit: I understood wrong your comment is valid but phrased weirdly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And the first sentence literally describes the scientific definition of bug...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh I thought they were talking about the first guy's sentences

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago

The number one rule for pedants is: if you're going to be pedantic, you'd damn well better be correct.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Anyone know what the first known case of 'bug' exclusively referring to Hemipterans/Heteropterans? The first use of bug being applied to arthropods was in the 1620s in reference to bedbugs (in Hemiptera but not Heteroptera) with the term ladybug (not in Hemiptera) first attested in the 1690s. Both predate Linnean taxonomy. So why and when did entomologists decide to coin this highly restrictive definition? It's a very English-language term so it surely wasn't when the taxon was created by Linnaeus.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A retort in three parts;

  1. It's bugs (colloquial), not Bugs (texanomic),

  2. There's being pedantic and then there's being a jackass - that's you, jackass, and

  3. @eat_roadkill should embrace their name and go chow down on a three-day-dead skunk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Also, Op never called spiders a bug to begin with

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure taxonomy is in latin because actual scientists got tired of dealing with pedantic dipshits.

"Bug" is an english word so it's the domain of an etymologist not a biolgist. My lookup of the word indicates applying "bug" to arachnids is perfectly cromulent.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Stupid science bitch couldn't even understand the joke.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's a science removed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Curses are probably replaced with "removed" for you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can we have a communication system that does not interfere with communication ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Talk to your instance or your client. I see it just fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I didn't realize the server instance I log in with, could do seamless censorship on the fly like that for content it doesn't even host. Does that mean there is lemmy content I'm just not seeing ? That's unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yep. If your instance defederates from certain instances that others don't defederate from, you won't see comments from those defederated servers that others might still be able to see and interact with. This is the curse of a decentralized system where every node can make up their own rules.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Can I just run my own single user lemmy server instead ? Why do I even need a third party to manipulate my digital world view ? Will I get autobanned from everywhere for being too small ?

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