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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What about "old as shit"? I bet that's a lot older

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I was thinking the same, so I looked into it!

The oldest creature in the evolutionary chain that has been found to poop (from what I found online) is the comb jelly fish. They are thought to have evolved somewhere between 500 million and 600 million years ago

So shit is pretty old but not as old as fuck

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Still, older than balls

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Unexpected! Thank you for your research :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

huh. how did animals get rid of waste before that? did they explode?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think they were just multicellular organisms that got rid of the shit by diffusion from the cells themselves, without a specific path for the shit to go down like a butthole.

We're talking wayyyy before complex organisms existed

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Old as hell would be 4.5 billion years old when all of Earth was just a ball of lava.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'd go with the imaginary route.

You can make up how old it is since it doesn't matter. Memes? Old as all hell. Breaking mews? Old as all hell. Doesn't matter if it's Musk Harris deep faked videos or slowpoke style news drops about clips of Monica blowies.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just for clarification, mammalia are much older.

And specifically about balls; while the Wikipedia article wasn't helpful this time, this article says it was 100 million years ago.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Given that complex life as we know it is only about 500-600 million years old, around the time of the Cambrian Explosion, the only image that comes to mind is two Eukaryotic cells getting frisky, having a one replication stand, then parting ways

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

If you ask linguists, then "old as fuck" only dates back to the 14th century.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What about old as shit?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Older than balls but younger than fuck if i remember right

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Science Rules!!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

If something is "older than dirt" that means it's at least 18,000 years old but can be millions of years old depending on where you live:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14qna.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So what did we (all) do before testicles...?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We crossed our legs freely without having to adjust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, the dream~

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Maybe look at plants and fungi and how they do it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Could be a paleontologist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That would be old as fucking. Fuck, the word, has been around in English for about 500 years or so. Shakespeare is old as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Otoh, short as fuck, is what , 30s?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some people shouldn’t get high

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

False, how else would we come up with interesting and obscure trivia

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Drinking, the same way we answer it at bars

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, that's where you regurgitate facts.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

TIL bourbon is a fact

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How can biologists base their knowledge on THEORIES?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The word theory is used differently in science to how it is in common speech. In science, a "theory" represents humanity's best possible explanation for something given everything we know. For example, the theory of gravity gives a reason for why things are attracted to each other, namely the bending of spacetime.

Theories don't become laws, either. Laws in science describe what happens, and theories describe how. To go back to gravity, the law of gravity is an equation that can tell you exactly how much two objects will be attracted to each other, but it can't explain how that happens. That's what the theory is for.

Hope this helps!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks, very helpful… ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

TIL: Fangorn forest is 65 million years old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can't load that image, I get this error:

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Doesn't happen with any other instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I have been reaching out to the object storage provider to see if I can increase the rate limits... Unfortunately I might need to change to a different provider to overcome this. Since the migration takes several days, especially so because of those same rate limits, I would rather avoid this...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

"Old as balls"???

That makes zero sense lol. Bravado, ego, pressure, these are the topics balls are in context with, not age.