Dolphins is whales.

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• finkrat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone else stupidly bothered by the fact that I used a green reverse? If he’s playing Uno he needs to match the color

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not if the yellow card which we can’t see the front of is also a reverse card.

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    • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But then how did he get to play?

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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Absolute discrace. I bet he didn’t even draw it fairly from the deck either.

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  • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck. I’d never noticed that. Fuck you very much, now I can’t unsee it.

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  • MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ruins the whole thing, really.

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• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s the thing. You said a “dolphin is a whale.”

  Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

  As someone who is a scientist who studies whales, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls dolphins whales. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

  If you’re saying “whale family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Cetacea, which includes things from porpoises to belugas to orcas.

  So your reasoning for calling a dolphin a whale is because random people “call the big ones whales?” Let’s get whale sharks and great whites in there, then, too.

  Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A dolphin is a dolphin and a member of the whale family. But that’s not what you said. You said a dolphin is a whale, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the whale family whales, which means you’d call vaquitas, bottlenose, and other marine mammals whales, too. Which you said you don’t.

  It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

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  • joshcodes@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So reading up on the evolution of whales for arguments sake has me realising all dolphins and whales are (as mentioned) from the same family.

    Your traditional whale fits into “Baleen Whales (Mysticeti)” which have “soft, hair like structures on the upper mouth” and there are 16 species and 3 families.

    Meanwhile there are also “Toothed Whales (Odontceti)” with 76 species and 10 families. They are smaller, actively hunt and almost always live in pods.

    The most surprising thing I’ve learned is that the Baleen Whales typically have two blow holes…??? Also they do not echolocate but they do sing/chat.

    So almost all your traditional large whales fit into the Baleen category and the traditional dolphin fits into the Toothed category. So there are key differences between them, but the overall family is whale.

    This is a dumb argument huh

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  • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unidan? Is that you?

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here’s a hint.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Holy shit that was a decade ago.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A dolphin is a dolphin and a member of the whale family. But that’s not what you said. You said a dolphin is a whale, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the whale family whales, […]. Which you said you don’t.

    It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

    You lost me here. OP never said dolphins aren’t dolphins. They also never said other non-dolphin members of the whale family wouldn’t be called whales. Where are you getting that from?

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    • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      www.reddit.com/r/…/jackdaws_arent_crows/

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …except Dophins definitely are whales. This is not the same as corvids and crows.

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• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you go back far enough, whales are a type of fish, just like us humans

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  • lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Either that or fish aren’t a phylogenetic group. You decide

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have I got a podcast for you!

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can’t evolve out of a clade, or so they say.

      Of course it’s not helpful to call humans and whales fishes in common parlance. But in phylogenetics, why not?

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• dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who has ever said that dolphins aren’t whales?

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  • joshcodes@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dolphins are whales with teeth, a distinction that makes them just slightly not whales

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sperm whales? Beaked whales? Also several river dolphins!

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who said someone said dolphins aren’t whales?

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    • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you looked at the meme I’m commenting on?

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  • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Transphobes, at least once that I saw.

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• kriz@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Big if true

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  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    no

    Image

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    • kriz@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kind of a cutesy medium if true

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Still pretty big compared to a herring…

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• s_s@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The space between a wale’s blowhole and their teeth isn’t their forehead, it’s an enlarged upper lip.

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  • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol wat?

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  • Zozano@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Capital W, mate.

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  btw, jacksucksatlife has the exact card.

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was right about the whales and the dolphins, Whales and dolphins, whales and dolphins, yeah. And I don’t mind preserving time at all

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