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fuck_all_you_people t1_j6kma6a wrote

Reply to comment by LegitimateAsk7824 in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69

"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes"

-Nathalie Robin Justice Gravel

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cbf1232 t1_j6km739 wrote

Reply to The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69

Sorry, I gotta disagree. Maybe what you say is true if you limit it to "social media" instead of "The internet".

"The Internet" is so much more than just social media.

There are tons of websites dedicated to specific hobbies that have active communities. There are thousands of open-source and commercial software projects distributed online. Computer gaming, videoconferencing, online banking, niche online shopping stores that are way better than Amazon/Walmart/etc., remote access to computers for work, large-scale data transfer, a dozen or more streaming video services, online board gaming by subscription, the list goes on and on...

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klonkrieger43 t1_j6km5o9 wrote

Reply to comment by The_Sown_Rose in All of us have direct ancestors who survived 5 global mass extinctions and outlived the dinosaurs by Arinupa

I am not talking about direct ancestors, but ancestors. A lot of your great-great-great....-aunts and uncles died, because of lacking medicine hygiene, famine, war, accidents and a whole lot of other preventable reasons.
The argument that humanity survived before vaccines is like this dumb tweet that the black plague disappeared on its own. It just killed a third of Europe's population to do so.

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kounterfett t1_j6klv5f wrote

Reply to comment by ReaperEngine in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69

They literally talked about this on TWIT this weekend. I bet dollars to donuts OP had this shower thought while listening to them talk about this quote and the irony that they are just regurgitating here something they heard somewhere else is totally lost on them

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dumbest_smartass t1_j6kls5n wrote

Reply to No other species besides humans understand that no amount of sex and children will stop the extinction of their race when the universe ends by [deleted]

False. Species aren't races. Your entire statment is incoherent.

Humans aren't more intelligent than animals, on the contrary animals will survive when humans die. But humans will die if all the other animals do. And so you know. The universe isn't going to end just because your anxious ass thinks so. They tried saying 2012 was gonna be the end, of a calendar with literally no end. People killed their families because of fucking media mockery of a story about the invasion of an alien race murdering everyone they came accross when we only had radios to communicate. People are far more stupid than animals.

People try to numb the instincts that have made us evolve to what we are today.

You know, animals don't like people their people don't like?

Do know animals are only scared of you when you are scared of them?

If you think an animal is stupid, it's because you are stupid.

If you think they know less than we do because you do not speak their language, thats you being stupid.

See. They understand your words, your tone, your scent, you sweat, they can smell your fear. You, you wouldnt know the difference between the scent of a scared rattler or a content gecko, and thats why you think only humans "know" anything.

They understand you from their cages. They understand you. And your intent. They know a cat killer from a cat lover. And you don't understand that they understand just as much if not more than you. Which is why it is YOU who doesn't understand what end is near for who or what or where. And you never will. Because you think like you do.

I am stupid. But I know that animals of prey are often very stupid in the middle of a hunt. The same could be said about people who think animals are clueless.

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dumbest_smartass t1_j6klc4l wrote

Reply to No other species besides humans understand that no amount of sex and children will stop the extinction of their race when the universe ends by [deleted]

False. Species aren't races. Your entire statment is incoherent.

Humans aren't more intelligent than animals, on the contrary animals will survive when humans die. But humans will die if all the other animals do. And so you know. The universe isn't going to end just because yoir anxious ass thinks so. They tried saying 2012 was gonna be the end. People killed their families because of fucking media mockery of a story about the invasion of an alien race murdering everyone they came accross. People are far more stupid than animals.

People try to numb the instincts that have made us evolve to what we are today.

You know, animals don't like people their people don't like?

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Moppeteer t1_j6kkf0s wrote

Reply to Humans are one of the few species that sees the raising of our arms as a sign of peace rather than aggression. by crookshanks_cat

Not quite. The thing is, us raising our arms is the evolution of how other animals put themselves belly up. Think of dogs. When a dog KNOWS it cannot win a fight vs another dog (or simply doesn't want to fight, it "shows it's belly" (and by thus, raises their "arms") in a sign of peace, or to be a little more specific, submission.

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