Comment on What is Exaptation, Alex?

Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve only ever seen them use in short video media about taking foul-tasting TCM

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Turner Classic Movies?

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    • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Traditional Chinese Medicine

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      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That makes far more sense than what came up when I searched TCM. Thank you.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Tim “Country” McGraw

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  • plyth@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But we don’t taste with the tongue, just bitter, salty, etc.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Originally, it served a need. Now, I imagine, it serves a want.

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  • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I mean they can definitely overlap. I want to live so I want and need my medication. That kind of thing.

    I think my amusement is more that “those who want to take very bitter medicines” sounds to me more like they’re doing it on a whim. :)

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If it was really for traditional medicine as I inferred from a neighbouring thread, it was more of a whim

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• starik@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It was originally “want.” They became addicted, so now it’s “need.”

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• sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah I just woke up but it took me a minute figure out what was happening. I thought it was saying that people prefer the bitter medicine, so I was confused why they didn’t want to taste it.

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