I tried that, and still failed :(

I think what you’ve written makes sense.

I don’t know enough about different types of fossil fuels, where they are all found, and how it relates to dead things from the Mesozoic era to contest anything you’ve claimed.

If you write a lot slower than normal, it's easy to have good handwriting.

Well, as I understand it, the vast majority of coal comes from, well, the carboniferous (litt. 'coal-bearing') and also from the permian. Dinosaurs didn't exist at that time.

Petroleum is found in sedimentary rocks, and is mostly zooplankton and algae. You know, sediment. Zooplankton is indeed animals, but things like fish eggs and small larvae of various stuff. For petroleum to form, organic matter needs to settle to the bottom of a body of water and decompose without oxygen.

Dinosaurs don't tend to do that in large amounts, for a couple of reasons.

1: Dinosaurs are vanishingly small percentage of the biomass of an ecosystem, especially compared with plants

2: As far as I know there were no (fully) aquatic dinosaurs, so it's not a likely place for them to die to begin with

In conclusion, saying that fossil fuels are made of dinosaurs is about as correct as saying that peanut butter is made of flies because the occasional fly part might be in there. It's misleading. I'm not a paleontologist or geologist, so feel free to correct me ofc, but I'm fairly confident it's not dinos lol

What do you think? Dinosaurs just died in huge piles that became our oceans of oil? Just saying. https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/we-are-not-running-out-of-oil-earth-produces-crude/

Fossil fuels still come from the remains of mostly dead plants and some animals, so I’m sure dinosaurs are involved in some fashion.

This is probably a karma farmer so many more times.

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Largely from from plant matter and thought to be mostly algae

We will be gone before the myth.

Is it exploitation if it’s needed to survive? It’s closer to exploiting the hunger of people than exploiting animals

Cool trivia. Thanks for sharing.

How many times does it need to be said that oil doesn't come from dinosaurs for this stubborn myth to finally disappear?

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Nope.

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There are more pressing problems. You shouldn't use fossil fuels because they're polluting anyway, but veganism is about not harming animals by encouraging exploitation by using their products.

Oil and gas come from ancient plants mainly, and you are not harming the ancient animals by using their fossils even if it did come from animals.

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The question:

When talking about how many wipes were needed, do you refer to n or n+1?

Time for a proof by induction: Base case: if you use only one wipe and it looks clean, you won't trust it and you'll use a second one. Now assume that you need n+1 wipes to realize you needed n wipes.

If you needed n+1 wipes, by the inductive hypothesis you will take (n+1)+1=n+2 wipes which proves the hypothesis

Q.E.D.