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abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bro penguins are literally alive

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  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So are chickens and I can anecdotaly confirm that they lead very cozy lives. Mostly due to me pamperin them a lot.

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    • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      our robot overlords will pamper us as much as I pamper my chickens

      Unfortunately for us humans, the majority of chickens live in horrible conditions in large corporate farms. Should the robots ever start to take over, I hope by that time we will be treating other species better, else they learn from us!

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No they’re not

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  • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hate how people say birds are literally dinosaurs. That’s like saying homo erectus are still alive today.

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    • arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      dinosaurs are a group that includes the subgroup of birds. most dinosaurs are extinct, but birds still exist

      homo erectus is a single species within the group known as hominins. most hominins are extinct, but homo sapiens still exists

      apples are fruits. I like apples, but that doesn’t mean I like every kind of fruit

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      • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have watched the simulated running of various dinosaur species in documentaries such as Jurassic Park.

      I have also watched my chickens excitedly run around my back yard.

      There is nothing you can say that will convince me birds are not literally dinosaurs.

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    • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As for birds being dinosaurs, you also have a lot of physical similarities too! The feet of non-avian dinosaurs are similar to those of modern birds with hollow bones, and I think the skulls were similar in shape too. Recently, we have also found evidence of some dinosaurs being feathered. There is also evidence of bird-like behaviours in some dinosaurs, like brooding (e.g. a hen sitting on some eggs) and herding (grouping together)

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    • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Too bad, now you, me, and everyone is a fish. All the tetrapods were originally descended from fish (technically, the ancestor to the modern kind of fish), meaning we are closer to bony fish than sharks are!

      Mammals, reptiles, dinosaurs (and by extension birds), and amphibians are all FISH!

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• applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i think it was more that they were all really big and couldn’t survive a massive resource restriction. we dont have the same problems, being omnivorous generalists who can eat pretty much anything. if something like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs happened to us a lot of us would die sure, but the species would survive. we could still get power from wind, dams, fossil fuels, and nuclear, and grow food indoors using grow lights. most people wouldnt make it but most likely enough would that wed still have a stable breeding population when the dust settled.

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  • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wish we couldn’t survive it, and it looks to be a slow, painful burn out for us.

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    • mmmac@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You might want to seek help man

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      • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Keep coping.

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