Confirmed with Link: Meme/Like Thread 6 - A new season on the horizon

[Unhinged Finn]

. . .The general concept of a crab is such an efficient body type that it has triumphed repeatedly in several different branches of the evolutionary tree:


Which is why the human will eventually evolve into a crabman.

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[zman77]

 

[sabremike]

 

[Nogatco Rd]

looks like the first time I took mushrooms

 

[Negan4Coach]

Has anyone encountered "WifeJack" yet? Fascinating psychodrama unfolding on X:

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Given that it's on X and it's involving a woman (or a drawing of one), I imagine the "psychodrama" is just a losing fight against the rampant misogyny on the platform.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

I don’t think the average modern person understands just how completely insane it must have been to be on the high seas on a moonless night in a ****ing canoe.

Your average person, if they’ve ever been on a boat in the actual ocean not near shore, have done it in the context of a cruise ship or charter boat where things are all lit up and you’re sitting way up above the water. Imagine being right down on the water, surrounded by absolute pitch blackness, and the heaving of the swells, for… however long that must have taken.

The technological feat of surviving that journey is crazy enough, but the psychological experience of it must have been a next-level ordeal akin to space travel or spending a month in a cave. The fact that enough people chose to do it (and survived it) to populate the Pacific Islands is a hell of a thing.

I get nervous when I drive in a new city for the first time, despite having GPS and a cell phone if anything happens. I can't imagine the cajones it took for people to just hop in a canoe and sail until they found some inhabitable land.


This popped up in my twitter feed just now, coincidentally. The thought of riding something like this out in a tiny canoe utterly terrifies me.

 

[MinJaBen]

As complex as they are structurally, horseshoe crabs have only undergone minor variation for 450 million years.

Probably not true at all. They may look unchanged, but evolution doesn’t just stop. Probably lots of biochemical evolution going on that fossils won’t elucidate. For example, humans are constantly evolving, but the loci with some of the largest changes are in the immune system, which won’t show up in the fossil record.

 

[MinJaBen]

looks like the first time I took mushrooms

And the last time if it were me.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

As complex as they are structurally, horseshoe crabs have only undergone minor variation for 450 million years. The general concept of a crab is such an efficient body type that it has triumphed repeatedly in several different branches of the evolutionary tree:

Probably not true at all. They may look unchanged, but evolution doesn’t just stop. Probably lots of biochemical evolution going on that fossils won’t elucidate. For example, humans are constantly evolving, but the loci with some of the largest changes are in the immune system, which won’t show up in the fossil record.

i assume he meant minor variation structurally for 450 million years, since his initial point was about structural complexity, not just complexity in a general sense.

And that's probably not that difficult to confirm, as I think i remember reading that horshoe crabs are particularly well represented across the fossil record.

 

[LakeLivin]

They asked me to dress the turkey. How'd I do?

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[Negan4Coach]

Given that it's on X and it's involving a woman (or a drawing of one), I imagine the "psychodrama" is just a losing fight against the rampant misogyny on the platform.

No, its actually a winning fight against misogyny. The theme is blackpilled millennials and Gen-Z types becoming motivated in the wholesomeness of what we used to describe as a "basic bitch" and neo-nazis losing their minds about it and going REEEEEEEE

 

[DaveG]

to be fair, he was also one of the greatest chess players of all time and is tied for the record in number of US championships that they've won with some scrub named Fischer.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

No, it’s actually a winning fight against misogyny. The theme is blackpilled millennials and Gen-Z types becoming motivated in the wholesomeness of what we used to describe as a "basic bitch" and neo-nazis losing their minds about it and going REEEEEEEE

You lost me at “blackpilled”

 

[Negan4Coach]

You lost me at “blackpilled”

There are things that are better unknown. That is one of them.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

 

[sabremike]

"As God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly!"

 

[hangman005]

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That's the 5th day of Christmas right?

 

[Nogatco Rd]

 

[tarheelhockey]

to be fair, he was also one of the greatest chess players of all time and is tied for the record in number of US championships that they've won with some scrub named Fischer.

The meme is funny (because a kid getting owned is always funny) but inaccurate. He actually did win all 20 matches against high-ranked players.

You lost me at “blackpilled”

I didn’t get it either. Per Reddit:

“My first reaction when I saw the meme a few days ago was “Huh, reminds me of my wife” followed by “…but there’s probably some horrible misogynistic subtext, which is too bad.” FORTUNATELY, the main backers of the meme are also married guys with fairly normal wives captioning it with wholesome or puzzling but endearing things that wives might say.

Unfortunately, the people who have never been in a healthy relationship are using the meme to post toxic hateful incel stuff, so it’s currently tbd if the first interpretation will win out or if the second interpretation kills it before the week ends.”

 

[sabremike]

 

[TaLoN]

Eberflus really trying hard to rationalize the worst NFL clock management moment in the history of the game...

 

[tarheelhockey]

Eberflus really trying hard to rationalize the worst NFL clock management moment in the history of the game...

He didn’t really even explain it. Ok, so you wanted to re-rack the play at 18 seconds and throw it in bounds and call timeout for the field goal. Cool. So when your QB is still standing there trying to line guys up with 8 seconds left your thought process was… ?