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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the same vein, stop drawing dead butterflies

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    • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Damnit, I’m going to see this everywhere now, aren’t I?

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      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yep.

        You’re welcome.

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    • Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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      Interesting!

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      • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That bottom depiction really makes it obvious that butterflies never have their wings like that

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    • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!

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    • undeffeined@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh wow, thats very interesting!

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    • Delzur@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Didn’t see that coming. In retrospect, I should have noticed that a long time ago… Thanks for the info

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    • bmpvy@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i will never see butterfly depictions the same again

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    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Neat, the alive ones look way more like moths too.

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, they’re still kinda goofy looking when alive.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Wait don’t take the photo I’m not rea…”

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  • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Remembers me…

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    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can we. for once, not bring Trump into everything?

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      • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But he’s mentioned in the fish’s name.

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    • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He looked so much younger then.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Boris Johnson?

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      From the thumbnail I thought this was a naked ass

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So I don’t need to lose weight, I just need to live somewhere with 1,470 psi of pressure.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then you need to gain bone structure

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  • Fandangalo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why not use both and turn it into a 2 panel meme?

    Me when I have water Me when I’m a human living in the modern world

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The name information is incorrect.

    Psychrolutes is the genus, not the species.

    Psychrolutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. […] There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus

    The binomial name of the blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus. But realistically, “binomial name” is not always the same as “proper name”. There are a lot of animals whose common names include misconceptions, or even insults. Just look at the information about Psychrolutidae (that’s the Family) above. “Fatheads” sounds insulting, and “Toadfishes” aren’t toads.

    I wouldn’t have even bothered looking this up, except that the artist wrote the “proper name” so poorly that I first read it as “Psychrd Lutes”. And the second reading, I misread as “Psychiro Lutes”, due to the weird “R” that looks like none of their other Rs. I read it correctly the third time, but I have to wonder at the wisdom of not writing it clearly when you’re trying to emphasize how it is spelled.

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    • alucard@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not entirely correct either, because apparently “blobfish” can also refer to the wider Psychrolutidae family, also known as fathead sculpins, meaning that other species from the Psychrolutidae family get referred to as “blobfish”. So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP’s post more accurate than your comment.

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      • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP’s post more accurate than your comment.

        I never said what you’re accusing me of saying. When Y corrects X, it is possible to say that Y is wrong without saying that X is right.

        Even when I referred to it once as “blobfish”, that was to state its binomial name, not to state that “blobfish” was correct. OP used the term “blobfish” in exactly the same way. It’s logically impossible for OP’s post to be “more accurate” than mine.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aliens do an Earth drive by, use a tractor beam to yank a human specimen through the mesosphere, log the name of the species as blisterface and fly away.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But a photo of a normal-looking fish has extremely limited entertainment value.

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  • CassiniWarden@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How can it be in pain, and be a corpse?

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those were its last words

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  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you reading this, ConcernedApe??

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    • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I feel like if there’s anyone out there who would use this new information to make right by the Blobfish, it’s him.

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    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe those blobfish are magic. I’ll hope for them!

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  • ninthant@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This was news to me, thanks for sharing this OP.

    Stardew valley lied to me!

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stardew lied a lot lol. Starfruit for example, only looks like a star in cross section, but i guess the actual starfruit is hard to represent in pixel.

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      • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I always assumed the Stardew starfruit was a special fruit that just happens to share a name with our starfruit.

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      • Unknown_0671@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        true. I think the star representation is fine because eating it the slices are basically stars so its valid artistic license.

        as for blobfish, u can argue its dead when u catch it but aquarium and ponds exist so that’s kinda sus

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is a “you” vs “the guy she tells you not to worry about” meme format

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  • WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Makes you wonder if you’re blobby because you’re in the wrong environment.

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    • Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Perhaps I do belong isolated in the deep dark sea.

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  • Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I spread this information anytime I can find it to be relevant. This and the incorrect myths about goldfish memories and short lives are so annoying to me. I love my fish friends

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  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good od Earthworm Jim…memories and RIP Shiny

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What worst, is i found the depiction in children’s book. It’s kinda sad the myth doesn’t get corrected as much because people justify it as entire different thing.

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had no idea, now I’m just sad.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So what’s Ted Cruz’s excuse for looking like figure A?

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    • exixx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He decompressed. Clearly he was meant to be at the bottom of the ocean

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      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We can fix this.

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  • nilo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had no idea too but then came across a random Vox video about high pressure where they mentioned it.

    I then did a little research and wrote the article below:

    tohippo.com/the-blobfish-is-not-as-ugly-as-you-th…

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  • BaronessBarf@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wish people brought this energy to the meat industry

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  • bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Source please or I’ll stick to my previously unchallenged image of ugly blobfish

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    • Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even has pictures of both states.

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  • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “stop depicting blobfish like this, and blobfish isn’t what it’s called”

    That specific one, as depicted, is blobfish. Blobfish is not a species, it’s an individual. Like Greenboots.

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  • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aww :[

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  • coaxil@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Blob fish, and fancy blob fish,.

    Gottit!

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Big Ugly” propaganda here. Only rely on their instagram selfies :P

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Moisturised, Flourishing.

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    First picture was just bad hair day.

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  • VerbFlow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought that the Grandma Blobfish quest from Half-Genie Hero would age badly, but I didn’t know how badly

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