This is how I felt as a kid when my peers insisted the thumb is not a finger. Like what are you talking about bro? If I asked before this came up, you’d have said you have ten fingers, not eight.
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Wander@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
OMG in still confused at this.
“I don’t eat animals”
“Do you eat fish?” (My thinking people say they are vegetarian but are actually pescaterian but don’t like saying it for some reason)
“Yea but thats not an animal”
“Hahaha yea it is”
“No it isnt”
“Wait what? … If its not an animal what is it? A tree? Haha”
“It’s a fish!”
“Which is an animal”
“No! An animal is an animal, and a fish is a fish!”
“Fish are animal. Look we can look it up to check if you want”
“I’m not going to look it up because I know a fish isn’t an animal. I don’t need to look it up!”
“… … I guess I can’t argue with that”
This all took place during pre drinks which is why I thought I was getting fucked with at the start. But I never realised how so many people are walking around blindingly, confidently, unshakeably wrong. She got mad.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
this is how I feel as a Spanish speaker when English tell me toes aren’t fingers
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 53 minutes ago
In English, they aren’t. Toes and fingers are both digits or phalanges, but not toes or fingers.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 23 minutes ago
I acknowledge that you are right, however I also acknowledge that I don’t like it and I rather be wrong about it
Language created a thing where Spanish speaker have twice the finger than English speakers.
remon@ani.social 4 hours ago
They are kind of right … there is no such thing as a fish.
grue@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Of course there’s such a thing as a fish! A fish is any swimming vertebrate (or its descendant), such as a tuna, or a duck, or a human.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Podcast mentioned.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
Still an animal though
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
No such thing as birds.
stray@pawb.social 3 hours ago
I’m able to understand conceptually that “meat” doesn’t literally mean any animal’s muscle tissue in every language. Sometimes it’s a more vague concept of a large mammal’s meat and excludes fish, poultry, etc. And that’s okay. But I also hate it.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 hour ago
My mom often cooks “meat free”. There’s always some sausage in there like Chorizo. Tastes great, but it’s certainly not free of meat.
Gladaed@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Ok, but you are wrong. While biology means animal is a member of animalia, people usually mean an animal that is capable of higher functions, e.g. a dog, sheep etc.
Most fish don’t express themselves in an understandable way. Mussels barely have neurons.
You gotta relax. Any sane human being should have clearly understood where they draw the line.
You also do wrong stuff all the time because it is useful to be wrong.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 minutes ago
I don’t think people “usually” mean that at all. And even if I did, why would I care what people mean by it if it’s wrong?
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 26 minutes ago
You’re somehow both wrong, and useless here. How did you manage to disprove yourself so thoroughly?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 48 minutes ago
Mussels aren’t fish.
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I’ve only ever known Christians to think fish aren’t animals. I’m pretty sure that’s something random that the Vatican decided for bending lent rules or some shit.
at least in my life most people do not have a “reasonably underseood line” where they arbitrarily stop considering animals as animals due to their perceived lack of communication. they have a line where they stop caring about them, but that’s usually about how cute they are, not about how they communicate. if more people understood koalas better they’d be way less popular.
most people just don’t actually think that much about it. trivia is for the people that do think about things. and it certainly should at least have its answers checked on google.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 minutes ago
and it certainly should at least have its answers checked on google.
Just not the LLM part since it’s often wrong
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
What the fuck are you on about???
stray@pawb.social 2 hours ago
I think you mean fish don’t express themselves in a way you understand. Some are lone hunters who have to rely on their wits to survive, while some have complex social interactions. Some even pass the mirror test.
I don’t think you should make excuses for why some things deserve life or kindness and others don’t. I think it’s better to just be honest with yourself about your personal biases and say you like dogs too much to hurt them, but that you don’t care as much about fish.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 minutes ago
It’s wild to me… And then to get mad? Like “how dare you make me learn something”