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[-] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

"A black swan? Everyone knows that's impossible!"

[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

What a power move

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you're German and old enough to remember Otto, then chances are, you'd thought of this classic bit when looking at this post:

Reinerhaltung der Deutschen Sprache — Die Otto-Show IV (1976)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Reminds me of some interactions on here

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've seen people go too far the other way, too.

What are you talking about, "it would be cool if cepholopods lived on land"? They live in marine habitats, and are just as evolutionary successful as a result, you dirty pedant.

Or, even worse:

Pandas won't mate and are going extinct. If you don't want to be a panda you're wrong, because this is nature.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

They also make terrible Linguists!

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