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CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not all of them do, and the real problem is that the typically only live about six years anyway. That’s probably the bigger problem to solve.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s all that rage and hatred they have towards other fish driving them to an early grave.

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    • lath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True. Anger and stress usually lead to a lower life expectancy.

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      • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The point I was trying to make, though, is from some paper I read a couple of decades ago. Sorry, I can’t reference it, but it basically said that, once a species, such as ours, reaches a certain point of life expectancy, they can then start building what is basically considered, legacy“. That’s when they can start building empires because they stick around long enough to create culture and society and then civilization, and then the empire

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what I call checks and balances

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  • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or less, depending on species.

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    • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. Some only live between six months and two years!

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