Land Matt

In the words of Ghandi: Eat shit and die mad

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[Land Matt @MClarkay]

@xinspiteofx Right this is frealy because *same*. Must be something in the air

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@questionableway There's literally no reason to push the blue button. You 100% survive if you hit the red. If everyone hits the red everyone survives. Hitting the blie is literally putting your lofe at risk for zero purpose

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@CinemaWinner I get this doesn't make any technical sense, but to paraphrase Northern Lion, my favourite movie is never going to be the one that "makes the most sense", it'll be the one that makes me feel something and does interesting things

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@HORRORGENRES Oh yeah for sure, although I think they've deffo got better with it, iirc they were bot like a year ago now so I think they definitely clocked that they fucked up

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@NJMonsterHunter @accuweather No they haven't

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@HORRORGENRES For clarity, I know now it's definitely fake but prior to the seeing the comment I just thought it was only probably fake and made up for karma and I can see them thinking the same without realising it was harmful until someone pointed it out

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@HORRORGENRES Tbf I totally bought it until I read the comics and it clicked. I'd imagine it's a similar situation where if you're not expecting it you just hear a well written (probably fake) story without clocking the implications it's giving

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@MarcusCVance Half of their brainwashed super soldiers turned on them and all but destroyed the Imperium in a brutal civil war, I doubt they'd want that level of strength dished out to people they *haven't* psychically and genetically engineered for obedience

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@WaywardWestern1 @disrupthehuman Trees and fish have all convergently evolved into a group that have very little genetic similarity. That is not the case with birds and dinosaurs. Avian dinosaurs and non avian dinosaurs share direct ancestors

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@Dragonfyre2 @srnorty @maxtmcc Various dinosaurs had many kinds of cranial kinesis. Ankylosaurs show evidence of streptostyly, hypsoliphodon and dromaeosaurus both displayed metakinesis. Hell Ornithopods are the only animals we know of to show Pleurokinesis

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@Dragonfyre2 @srnorty @maxtmcc My argument isn't just defining traits, my whole point is that at a certain point a group of animals becomes so distant from a larger group it becomes unique and birds haven't achieved that yet. Microraptor could fly so flight isn't even a defining trait anyway

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@Dragonfyre2 @srnorty @maxtmcc African lungfish retain the ability to respire using water. They *can* breathe air but they are not obligate air breathers

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@Dragonfyre2 @srnorty @maxtmcc Name one

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@Dragonfyre2 @srnorty @maxtmcc Once again: the ability to respire using oxygen dissolved in water is what separates mammals from lobe Finned fish. Pretty simple one

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@srnorty @Dragonfyre2 @maxtmcc Like I don't think you're following, there is legitimately no way to separate birds out from Dinosauria without pulling a bunch of Dinosaurs people don't argue about out with them

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@srnorty @Dragonfyre2 @maxtmcc Birds are literally, by definition, within the superorder of Dinosauria. They didn't branch off out of it they became a unique branch within it.

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@Dragonfyre2 @srnorty @maxtmcc No. You can classify lobe Finned Fish as having the ability to respire using the oxygen dissolved in water and that excludes all terrestrial lobe Finned fish

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@Dragonfyre2 @srnorty @maxtmcc Yes but the degree of separation is MUCH higher. Sure modern lobe Finned Fish have been evolving but the last time a squirrel ancestor and a fish ancestor were the same was before there was any life on land at all. Birds fully evolved as part of dinosaur evolution

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@Dragonfyre2 @srnorty @maxtmcc No because the time between birds and related Theropods most recent common ancestor is far less time than the time between Squirrels and Lobe Finned Fish common ancestors. To put it into context: the first bird evolved *millions* of years before velociraptor or T.rex

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@Dragonfyre2 @srnorty @maxtmcc Yes, that's why "fish" is a colloquial term not an accurate scientific one. Bony fish, cartilaginous fish, jawless fish etc. are all the terms used to group what we colloquially call fish into actual evolutionary groups