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[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 days ago

Dinosaurs got wiped out because they all got too cozy and complacent with their lives. Luckily that will never happen to humans

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 32 points 2 days ago

Bro penguins are literally alive

[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So are chickens and I can anecdotaly confirm that they lead very cozy lives. Mostly due to me pamperin them a lot. So maybe humans will be allright as well and our robot overlords will pamper us as much as I pamper my chickens.

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

our robot overlords will pamper us as much as I pamper my chickens

Unfortunately for us humans, the majority of chickens live in horrible conditions in large corporate farms. Should the robots ever start to take over, I hope by that time we will be treating other species better, else they learn from us!

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

I hate how people say birds are literally dinosaurs. That's like saying homo erectus are still alive today.

[-] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

dinosaurs are a group that includes the subgroup of birds. most dinosaurs are extinct, but birds still exist

homo erectus is a single species within the group known as hominins. most hominins are extinct, but homo sapiens still exists

apples are fruits. I like apples, but that doesn't mean I like every kind of fruit

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] Zink@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

I have watched the simulated running of various dinosaur species in documentaries such as Jurassic Park.

I have also watched my chickens excitedly run around my back yard.

There is nothing you can say that will convince me birds are not literally dinosaurs.

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

As for birds being dinosaurs, you also have a lot of physical similarities too! The feet of non-avian dinosaurs are similar to those of modern birds with hollow bones, and I think the skulls were similar in shape too. Recently, we have also found evidence of some dinosaurs being feathered. There is also evidence of bird-like behaviours in some dinosaurs, like brooding (e.g. a hen sitting on some eggs) and herding (grouping together)

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Too bad, now you, me, and everyone is a fish. All the tetrapods were originally descended from fish (technically, the ancestor to the modern kind of fish), meaning we are closer to bony fish than sharks are!

Mammals (including us humans!), reptiles, dinosaurs (and by extension birds), and amphibians are all FISH!

[-] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 days ago

i think it was more that they were all really big and couldn't survive a massive resource restriction. we dont have the same problems, being omnivorous generalists who can eat pretty much anything. if something like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs happened to us a lot of us would die sure, but the species would survive. we could still get power from wind, dams, fossil fuels, and nuclear, and grow food indoors using grow lights. most people wouldnt make it but most likely enough would that wed still have a stable breeding population when the dust settled.

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