Would you rather misclick during a game, OR make a mistake and skip over an atari?
Forget it! Iāll take the forfeitā¦waitā¦what?
Misclick pleaseā¦=(
Last straw, mistake! But Iāll take yaā¦T~T
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Would you rather win a pro in go by 0.5, OR win a novice in go by 375 points?
AYE! Pro, 'course!
I like to bully novice players, lol! And itās satisfying, too.
Can I skip?
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Which comes first? The chicken or the egg?
Hmmm interestingā¦I believe the chicken!
Why do we care? As long as we have eggs and chicken meat.
The egg goes FIRST!
Where am I? Who am I? What is this?
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What solves every question?
The key
The answer
The fart
The dog poop
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Why does a firework run so fast?
Duh, cuz itās butt is on fire
Idk
??? Maybe cuz itās made that way?
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What did the caterpillar say to her dad that made her dad faint?
I want new shoes
I wanna go on a diet
I wanna be rich BOIII
I canāt squeeze out ma poop
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What type of customer does the barber hate most?
The crying baby
The old lady
The bald guy
Theā¦alien
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On a snowy day, a guy was found dead outside. Near his body, they only found two parallel lines going for a long distance. What/who should they look for next?
I mean for the chicken and egg one, I think God created chickens, and the chickens hatched the egg. I mean if the egg came first, thereās no chicken to hatch it!
But what if God didnāt create the domesticated bird we call a chicken? Maybe God created a junglefowl or some other proto-chicken. And if thatās the case, then somewhere in time you have two proto-chickens whose offspring was a true chicken. That means the egg came first.
Birds descend from dinosaurs. So, at one point, there must have been the first bird hatching from an egg lay by what was technically still a dinosaur, I guess. Althouth the lines are probably blurry and biologists might laugh at me for that idea of drawing a line there, Idk. Well, and then with birds, at some point chickens evolved, so it was another very chicken-like-but-not-yet-a-chicken bird which lay and egg, out of which came a chicken.
Indeed, eggs appeared around 312 million years ago, even if you only consider hard-shelled eggs to be ātrueā eggs. Chickens only appeared about 8 thousand years ago (domesticated red junglefowl).
I guessā¦ wellā¦ I heard that people exist who seriously believe stuff like that, but I think I never met someone in my life. And Iām almost 40. And I went to a Catholic school, but even there everyone knew about evolution etc. So this isā¦ weird for me. A true clash of cultures, I guess.
Birds descend from dinosaurs. So, at one point, there must have been the first bird hatching from an egg lay by what was technically still a dinosaur
Birds are dinosaurs, like humans are mammals.
Birds evolved from non-avian dinosaurs like humans evolved from non-human mammals, but birds didnāt cease to be dinosaurs any more than humans ceased to be mammals.
The dinosaurs (Dinosauria) are a clade ā any animal descended from the founding species of the group will always be a dinosaur, regardless of its morphology.
The non-avian dinosaurs are a paraphyletic (exclusionary) group ā the dinosaurs, but explicitly without the birds. That group could also be considered an evolutionary grade, like the reptiles (Reptilia being, famously, also paraphyletic).
Of course, this is a scientific point. I acknowledge that in popular discourse, dinosaur is usually synonymous with non-avian dinosaur; but āpopular terminologyā also places animals like crocodiles or tortoises into that group, which more people would find ridiculously incorrect.
I second this, I havenāt met a Christian in the Netherlands yet who truly believes the world is that young (although I know they exist, in villages like Staphorst and Urk and such).
I always believed āDinosaursā was a paraphyletic group, defined as any animal with the same common ancestor as, letās say, the velociraptor and the triceratops, excluding the birds.
Like humans arenāt considered monkeys, or lizards, or fish.
Looking it up, seems youāre right! Didnāt expect to learn such a significant dinosaur fact after spending the first 16 years of my life believing I would become a palaeontologist.
I always believed āDinosaursā was a paraphyletic group, defined as any animal with the same common ancestor as, letās say, the velociraptor and the triceratops, excluding the birds.
Thatās a popular but incorrect belief. The group you refer to is, as said, the non-avian dinosaurs.
Like humans arenāt considered monkeys, or lizards, or fish.
The lizards sensu stricto, which is to say the squamates, are not ancestral to humans. ālizardsā are a paraphyletic group, though, because snakes are excluded ā the clade, Squamata, includes the snakes.
From what I can gather, there is actually technical debate currently over whether or not humans and other apes should be formally considered a species of Old World monkey ā āmonkeysā are usually treated paraphyletically, with the exclusion of all the apes (not just humans). The clade, which includes monkeys, apes, and humans, is Simiiformes, the simians; and more broadly the primates, including lemurs.
fish are an evolutionary grade of vertebrate, defined as "Vertebrata without Tetrapoda", the tetrapods being the land vertebrates ā fish are another paraphyletic group.
The correct technical term is actually pterosaur, of the clade Pterosauria (ĻĻĪµĻĻĪ½āĻĪ±įæ¦ĻĪæĻ, the āwing lizardsā).
The pterodactyls (ĻĻĪµĻĻĪ½āĪ“Ī¬ĪŗĻĻ Ī»ĪæĻ, the āwing-feetā) are specifically members of the genus Pterodactylus, or more broadly the suborder Pterodactyloidea (though those would perhaps be more correctly called pterodactyloids).
There are many species of pterosaur that are not pterodactyls.
Again, pterodactyl has a slightly different technical and popular meaning, and itās not my place to tell you that the popular meaning is āwrongā ā itās just non-technical.
Itās a similar case to a correction of sabre-toothed tiger to sabre-toothed cat, as the genus Smilodon is not technically a sort of tiger, since the tigers are defined as belonging to the species Panthera tigris. The name sabre-toothed tiger is good in that in communicates the size of the animal, but technically misleading.
By the way, the clade formed by Dinosauria and Pterosauria is often called Ornithodira (į½ĻĪ½Ī¹ĻāĪ“ĪµĪ¹ĻĪ®, the ābird-throatsā).
Our neighbour was a farmer who held the belief that the earth was created by God something like 8000 years ago, since thatās what he was told in church. He was also an amateur geologist, and when youād ask how old some of his rocks were, he would answer things like this-and-that rock is 30 million years old, so-and-so rock is 20 million years old, etc.
He didnāt seem to have any problems with believing both at the same time.
Iāve always found it strange what the strife with the whole teaching of evolution really is about. The theory of evolution is perfectly compatible with having a creator, since evolution does not say anything about how life is created, only something about how certain rules (inheritance, mutation & survival pressure) have the effect that their subjects tend to converge to optimal āfitnessā.
Itās a process you can witness first-hand just by observing how selective breeding gives rise to diversity, or how the most successful viruses tend to be highly infectious and relatively harmless, or how certain insects are now immune to pesticides, or bacteria to antibiotics. You can even find it in dead objects, like how certain technology becomes popular and inspires similar technology, while less successful ideas tend to die out.
It just adds to the remarkableness of the extent of fanatical literal belief, especially in societies where you would imagine that āgood educationā is available.
The Standford Uni evolution teaching notes emphasise how the lessons in evolution donāt have to be seen as contradicting the studentsā religious beliefs, and encourage pointing out the different roles of science and religion.
But I guess these are west-coast liberal heresies in the US
In the Netherlands, a majority of the population is non-religious. Conservative Evangelicals (usually called āGereformeerdā = Reformed or Calvinist) only make up about 5% of the population (I think itās about 25% in the US)?
But my high school was a protestant school with quite a few Reformed teachers. Both the Big Bang and evolution are obligatory subjects in Dutch schools, but my physics teacher denied the Big Bang (though he did explain it) and my biology teacher denied evolution (he did explain it, but also taught us about creationism).
I heard that people exist who seriously believe stuff like that, but I think I never met someone in my life. And Iām almost 40. And I went to a Catholic school, but even there everyone knew about evolution etc. So this isā¦ weird for me. A true clash of cultures, I guess.