TIL, vegetables are a social construct.
This article illustrates this nicely:
athensscienceobserver.com/…/vegetables-are-a-soci…
Comment on bugs
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 5 months ago
- there is no scientific definition of “bug”. the entire category is a social construct much like vegetables
- this person’s first sentence defined spiderd as insects and the second sentence said they weren’t
Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 5 months ago
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Neither of those two sentences define the spider as either insect or non insect. Did you even read them?
King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 5 months ago
And the first sentence literally describes the scientific definition of bug…
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh I thought they were talking about the first guy’s sentences
NeverNudeNo13@lemmings.world 5 months ago
They are missing some punctuation where it was desperately needed but imagine a comma or period after " spiders are not bugs" and reread.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 5 months ago
ah yes, thank you, my bad
NeverNudeNo13@lemmings.world 5 months ago
All good my dude… It didn’t make sense to me on my first past either so I figured that it might have gotten you in the same spot to. Just glad to see the community is not throwing down votes at ya anymore, because it just felt like an honest misread. Cheers.