• Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    141·
    14 hours ago

    Human are an advanced bio mech suit for bacteria. Human cells - 37 trillion (majority red blood cells). Bacteria in the human body - 38 trillion.

    There is a non-zero chance that the human consciousness is the product of bacteria forming a mesh neural network that hijacks the human brain’s voluntary functions. It could explain why some people suffer emotional distress while under antibiotics (I get severe depression).

    Just playing with ideas.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    13 hours ago

    “Pterodactyls are fish” seems disingenuous to insert when two of the previous ones are about pedantic taxonomy facts (which are true). “Fish” are paraphyletic and thus not an actual taxon, but as a practical group, it’s all non-tetrapod vertebrates – and order Pterosauria are decidedly tetrapods.

    It’s trying to be pedantic in a cheeky way but just ends up being wrong.

    Edit: Just so I balance this out, though, anyone wanting to be humorously pedantic about aquatic taxonomy should check out WoRMS (the World Register of Marine Species). They’ve always been, to me, the most up-to-date source on the taxonomy of marine, freshwater, and brackish biota short of reading the actual scientific literature.

    • bisby@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      14 hours ago

      I find pedants are often wrong or completely missing the point.

      Sometimes it triggers a fun discussion. and sometimes it’s just tedious.

      (ghoti could never be pronounced like “fish” because “gh” only sounds like an F near the end of a word after au or ou, but ghoti is at least an interesting way to bring up the topic of weird inconsistencies of the english language, even if it’s wrong)