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 fossilesque   ( @fossilesque@mander.xyz ) M to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 months ago

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 fossilesque   ( @fossilesque@mander.xyz ) M to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 months ago
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  •  TheFogan   ( @TheFogan@programming.dev ) 
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    Could you imagine the confusion if you are used to it though… you’ve considered this scent to mean dead your whole life. would be kind of like as a human noticing your heart isn’t beating, your skin is pale… realizing you are in a coffin and everyone’s performing a service… hmm… guess I am dead. course I guess that’s kind of the difference is humans aren’t so accepting of things. we could be unable to move, realize we are looking from the perspective of our head, which is on the ground 2’ away from the rest of our body and our first thought would be, "Hey can you hear me? Hello!!.

    •  NeatNit   ( @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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      Depends on the human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard's_syndrome

      Side note: I am furious that I wasn’t able to find the name of this syndrome without ChatGPT. Is this a skill issue or are traditional search engines (in this case DuckDuckGo) just completely useless now?

      •  Tithen   ( @Tithen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        🤷‍♂️

      •  knatschus   ( @knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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        Pretty much the whole Internet got worse in the last decade. Search engines are a pain to use nowadays.

      •  Match!!   ( @match@pawb.social ) 
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        duckduckgo has become pretty worthless for search, ecosia is slightly better i think but without the privacy benefits. i have a local llm running in koboldcpp that i use if i really need to just bounce words off something while it nods along

      •  mrgoosmoos   ( @mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ) 
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        seems like it might be skill issue in this case. a Google search for “medical condition person thinks they’re dead” gave it immediately

  •  ORbituary   ( @orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    “Ed Wilson”

    More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.

    Read his book “The Social Conquest of Earth” if this intrigues you.

    •  TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾   ( @TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      Sounds like propaganda tbh

      •  ORbituary   ( @orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        deleted by creator

        •  TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾   ( @TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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          Lol, it’s pseudoscientific propaganda. Don’t pretend Wilson isn’t controversial

          Also, I ain’t your pal, buddy!

          Edit: I made this for you https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49396386

        •  apotheotic (she/her)   ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) 
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          Not accusing you of anything, just find it funny how “look at it from a purely biological position” is exactly the line transphobes use

          •  ORbituary   ( @orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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            Christ. I forgot that it’s impossible to speak about science online. I didn’t once insinuate that line of thinking.

            Fuck this thread. I’m deleting it.

            •  apotheotic (she/her)   ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) 
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              Eh? I literally said I wasnt accusing you of anything and that I just found it funny

              •  ORbituary   ( @orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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                I know. But this just leads to a dog pile on Lemmy. It already started. It’s impossible to discuss human evolutionary biology without emotions getting involved for exactly the reason you stated.

                Because bad faith actors co-opted the language for their subverted messaging, it’s just a wash.

                •  flora_explora   ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) 
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                  Hm no, the problem is much more at the roots of science than you think. Most of biology is based on humans’ biased assumptions and expectations. For example, only when queer theory was developed did biologists really grasp how much deviant the animal kingdom in regards to sex, gender and sexuality actually is.

                  Just think how many layers deep this is: humans exist -> develop social structures -> develop social constructs that feel essential -> try to describe their own biology through the lense of all the prior layers -> develop awareness about some social constructs -> revisit their own biology but still with a lot of biases

                  What you express by saying that it isn’t possible anymore to just speak about biology is imo rather an expression of denying certain advancements we’ve made. Our ideas and models of biology a few decades ago may have been simpler, but not more true. We’ve just realized to some extend how complex biology is and how our prior models have made many poor assumptions.

                  EO Wilson is having his own concepts and biases of human societies and projects them onto this pseudoscientific narrative. He is obviously not aware of his own position in society and how it shapes his assumptions.

            •  TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾   ( @TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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              pussy

    •  Genius   ( @Genius@lemmy.zip ) Banned
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      because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.

      Not the anarchists

      •  ORbituary   ( @orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        My ex would say, “that rules like anarchy.” Cute.

    •  Fleur_   ( @Fleur_@aussie.zone ) 
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      Lions are eusocial

  •  moseschrute   ( @moseschrute@lemmy.zip ) 
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    You have a spray bottle of oleic acid

    Who do you spray: Trump, JD Vance, RFK jr or Caroline Leavitt

    •  FearMeAndDecay   ( @FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe ) 
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      Yes

      •  moseschrute   ( @moseschrute@lemmy.zip ) 
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        Correct

    •  PartyAt15thAndSummit   ( @PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip ) 
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      For humans, I heard it say to use butyric acid.

    •  WorldsDumbestMan   ( @WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ) 
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      RFK jr because funny

      •  moseschrute   ( @moseschrute@lemmy.zip ) 
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        Yeah be he’s already half dead from the worm

    •  Swedneck   ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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      not interested unless it’s fluoroantimonic acid

  •  protist   ( @protist@mander.xyz ) 
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    E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book “The Ants” is mind-bogglingly thorough

    •  ORbituary   ( @orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      Also, Social Conquest of Earth.

    •  AnarchistArtificer   ( @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ) 
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      Well damn. I wasn’t expecting to be adding a new book to my reading list as a result of this thread, but y’all’s enthusiasm is such that I feel I have to.

      •  protist   ( @protist@mander.xyz ) 
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        “The Ants” isn’t casual reading, it’s a dense compendium of everything known about ants, covering every known genus and their morphology and behavior. There’s a key, too, so you can identify ants based on their morphology, assuming you ever feel like counting antennomeres or tarsal segments.

      •  sqw   ( @sqw@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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        “journey to the ants” is a great book for anyone to check out

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    I wonder what will happen if they put that chemical into an insecticide spray.

    •  MonkderVierte   ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ) 
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      Ants coming to bring you more dead ants. You will be the evil ant god.

    •  daniskarma   ( @daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      The walking ants.

  •  piranhaconda   ( @piranhaconda@mander.xyz ) 
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    “I swear I’m not dead!”

    “Yea we don’t care, you smell dead and it’s disgusting, leave until you take a bath”

  •  [migrated to PieFed]   ( @arsCynic@beehaw.org ) 
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    What the hell happened to the ant? My god I dislike cliffhangers.

    •  [migrated to PieFed]   ( @arsCynic@beehaw.org ) 
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      Did the lord’s work myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPw9dSV6y2c

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