• Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    44 minutes ago

    I.e. 41% of Americans are completely useless and unqualified in the discourse about our society.

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    4 hours ago

    I mean…technically they did, and still do, since birds are technically dinosaurs, but context clued tell me that the people being talked about here didn’t have that in mind when answering the survey

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    Demographically, YouGov noted, “While most Americans who describe themselves as ‘born again’ (56%) believe that humans and dinosaurs once shared the planet, most Americans who do not describe themselves as born again (51%) think that they did not.”

    This does not add up…

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      3 hours ago

      Its one of those articles where you have stats that give you strokes.

      I think it means 56% of born agains, and 51% of born onetimes

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    19 hours ago

    Akshually, modern birds are descended from dinosaurs, effectively making them dinosaurs themselves. So humans did, and still do, live with dinosaurs.

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      10 hours ago

      I suspect many survey respondents were right for the wrong reason, or vice-versa. I have two dinosaurs in my house right now.

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      12 hours ago

      I went to Australia and went with a tour group and the bus stopped. All of the cars were stopped on the road for some reason. The tour guide said “nobody get out of the vehicle!” Then I saw a velociraptor with a couple of baby velociraptors just walking down the side of the road.

      I think they call them cassowaries, but if you see how they move, those things are goddamn velociraptors.

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      19 hours ago

      Preach! And it’s not even “effectively,” birds are dinosaurs—full stop. They are avian dinosaurs.

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      19 hours ago

      Little birds are so cute, until you watch them hunting for prey and imagine yourself at that scale.

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        15 hours ago

        Watched a chicken jumpkick a rat and the rat bleed to death. We are lucky the world isn’t full of cassowary.

          • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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            I worked in a nature reserve, a couple times we needed emergency treatment for ostriches, and our vet said wrestling an ostrich to its knees was safer for the ostrich than using sedatives…

            I’m not sure if its true, but when I was 18 years old, it was the highlight of my life

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      16 hours ago

      And once you’re done telling everyone a tomato is a fruit, the rest of us still aren’t going to put it in a fruit salad.

      Don’t be pedantic, you know what they meant.

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        being a fruit isn’t an indicator about what to do with it. are you putting cucumbers in fruit salads too?

        god forbid you put a strawberry in the fruit salad, because that isn’t a fruit.

        you’re the one being pedantic. birds are all dinosaurs, that is a scientific consensus.

        that doesn’t mean that a pigeon will be the next monster in Jurassic world 8. but there are all dinosaurs.

        same way humans are also primates and mammals and animals…

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    14 hours ago

    All I have to do is turn on their national news program to gauge just how dumb America is.

    This is probably the reason why we haven’t had any alien contact from outer space. Aliens tune into our news networks, see just how stupid we are, especially Americans who are supposedly the wealthiest country and aliens just cringe, turn off the channel, place an intergalactic sign post just outside the orbit of Neptune warning everyone to stay away.