What's your language, if it's okay to ask?
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Everything about biology is a random effect. Even a mutation that's selected for wasn't planned; it just happened by chance. Like if you're an aquatic species maybe you'll end up being a strong swimmer over generations, but the water doesn't pressure you towards that on its own. You have to coincidentally develop flukes that make you a stronger swimmer before those traits can be selected for.
Sometimes traits that get passed down aren't beneficial at all because they don't make an impact on reproduction. Think of an animal that comes in many colors like a house cat or certain fish species. In such cases it's clear that the color of the animal doesn't have any bearing on its ability to reproduce, so a variety of colors are passed down for no particular reason.
I would love to learn why this isn't completely stupid, if anyone has a way of explaining. We'd be down entire genres of games if developers didn't copy each other's homework.
I honestly found the overall temperature of the room pretty comforting, but maybe I was just cherry picking?
In some cases, like threads, there's no searching within Discord either. And let's say you find someone asking your same question, right? They don't list the replies the way 4chan does, so you're stuck manually scrolling and reading and hoping someone said something relevant. I like Discord just fine for certain applications, but why did everyone decide to use it for everything??
Also, I can't PM people unless I'm friends with them or we share a common server. What is that? There's literally no privacy option to let me chat with people without also accepting them into my friends, a group which obviously has more permissions than strangers. ???
Also, also, I can't ever find a Discord server for something I'm interested in. I have to go to Reddit to find a thread containing a Discord link. ????? why
I don't understand why landfills are a thing when trash can be burned for energy. Obviously recyclables should be recycled, but why is there even a landfill for them to end up in?
You don't need to be unaware of or even dislike a thing to think a particular joke is bad.
See, this is a much better joke than the original comic.
The fuck do you mean "but the truth was disgusting" Like salmonella soup isn't?
Who the hell is both on Lemmy and new to Cyanide and Happiness?
I actually prefer it as the neutral singular, but everyone decided that was dehumanizing. To me it feels natural because if you don't know an animal's or a baby's gender, you call it it.