I don't think those 4 friends ever worked with Eric Burdon, Hilton Valentine, Chas Chandler, Alan Price, or John Steel actually, so the data probably isn't being affected.
You'll have to have a referendum, consulting each bacterium and asking if they identify as part of the collective known as "you" or as an independent organism
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Darohan@lemmy.zip · 73 pts · 2y
Paul, John, George, and Ringo were 4 friends, and they were all Beatles, so I think they might have skewed this data a little?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Sutcliffe lookin at his mandibles like
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
I don't think those 4 friends ever worked with Eric Burdon, Hilton Valentine, Chas Chandler, Alan Price, or John Steel actually, so the data probably isn't being affected.
Eheran@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
They choose to be beetles... we should distinguish generically assigned from chosen traits.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Some are born beetles, some achieve beetleness and some have beetleness thrust upon them.
smeg@feddit.uk · 43 pts · 2y
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 2y
Pedantry is always important! I would argue that ants would be selected over humans by both mass and population
smeg@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 2y
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 2y
I did some low-effort Googling and now I’m seeing that maybe some sea critters like krill have the highest non-bacteria biomass.
Either way, none of these are beetles!
bazus1@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
The world truly belongs to bacteria, and we're just along for the ride.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I'm considering the hovertext and I consider the pounds of bacteria in me to be Me. How are we dividing this out?
smeg@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 2y
You'll have to have a referendum, consulting each bacterium and asking if they identify as part of the collective known as "you" or as an independent organism
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I am no anarcho-syndicalist commune a watery bint lobbed a scimitar at me
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Do the bacteria in you consider you to be one of them (so to speak), or are you just a cruise ship?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I do have a few swimming pools
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 1 pts · 2y
What about plankton? Aren't they animals?
smeg@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 2y
RobotFK@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 2y
This is kafkaesque
Jesus_666@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y
One day Gregor Samsa woke up and realized he had at least three friends.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 2y
Oh then I guess...
Let it be, let it beee ee (tle)
Okokimup@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Pssh, look who's bragging about having three entire friends.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Kafka knew it
bazus1@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
1 out of every four species on the planet is a beetle. Category counts =/= population size.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Think of 3 of your favorite species. If none of them are beetles, you're a beetle.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
google is just making sure no one uses a old browser that still supports ad blocking.
tja@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
No, i am just living in a bubble and all my friends are basically the same.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y
How long till it's a crab?
merari42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Oh no, now I feel like I have awoken from turbulent dreams and find myself suddenly transformed into a beetle.