• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    it isn’t an arbitrary reclassification like Pluto. or a discrepancy between different usages like culinary usages will have biological fruits moved into vegetables like tomatoes and cucumbers.

    it is more like discovering that Birds are descendants of dinosaurs and because dinosaurs is a monophyletic classification , it means that all birds are in fact dinosaurs.

    if it is shocking to you because when you hear dinosaurs you think of movie monsters, then it’s a you issue.

    that’s like believing a real farm pony can’t be a pony because from my lived experience ponnies can talk and have friendship magic.

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        17 hours ago

        They sound so depressingly pathetic.

        This trivial thing they are objectively wrong about and refuse to change their mind. Everyone else is wrong because when we say “dinosaur” it is not the same thing as when he thinks “dinosaur”.

        Imagine how insufferable they must be on other topics.