We're all just human beans

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Baku@aussie.zone · 48 pts · 1y (4 replies)
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Ephera@lemmy.ml · 39 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Yeah, the mainstream social media platforms will now have the algorithm not distribute your post, if you use double-plus ungood language. A post talking about death just isn't something advertisers fancy being displayed next to, so it doesn't need to exist.

Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Ok... dont use mainstream social media?

Ephera@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Ah, my assumption is that this post got screenshotted from Tumblr, then censored and uploaded to Instagram or whatever, and then OP found it there and posted it into this community.

Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

^

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 1y

A lot of problems with the experiment. He didn't even taste it.

eighty@aussie.zone · 22 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Brother really did not like his beans

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y

"Mother it would be morally unethical to consume these legumes"

executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y

Died because he wouldn't run through a bean field (allegedly)

kn33@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

Bro be like "protein"

Objection@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 1y

life back then must've been crazy people just thought whatever

Have you seen people today?

galanthus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

He really did hate beans, but the "spawned from the same source" and the "experiment" seem like bs.

Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yeah, the most widely shared experiment from what I can tell is:

"Pythagoras conducted a scientific experiment demonstrating that humans and beans were spawned from the same source. He took some beans and buried them in the mud. They rested there for a few weeks before being removed and investigated by the great Greek philosopher. He concluded they looked like human fetuses."

But even that doesn't actually have any decent evidence.

galanthus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

"Experiment" is a tool of the modern science. The usage of this word in this context is not appropriate.

There is no evidence. There either is a source which mentions this or there isn't one. I have not seen, nor found such a source. The story is most likely made up by some modern idiot.

This story is also beyond ridiculous. I wonder how many human fetuses an average ancient greek has seen, but surely, it can't be that many.

Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A real human bean

horse_tranquilizers@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

And a real hero

jerkface@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Ghaaa, now I feel like such a sucker for believing that a^2 = b^2 + c^2 all this fricking time. Fool me once, Pythagoras!!

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

Well, you are a sucker if you believe that, because the correct equation is a² + b² = c². Unless for some weird reason your part of the world labels the hypotenuse as "a".

cocobean@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What did he do for protein though

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Not beans

janus2@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

I can't imagine going 🅱️eanless and I'm not even a vegetarian 💀

pseudo@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 1y

I don't trust sect leaders. I eat beans !

repungnant_canary@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Is that true? Were beans even present at the time and location of Pythagoras?

janus2@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

chickpeas and fava beans are native to the Mediterranean region I think

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

And beans exist pretty much everywhere.

HackerJoe@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Partly. I never heard about the smell part. He planted them and observed that the bean stalk sprouting out of the bean resembled the way a human grows in the womb. That's why they thought the beans contain human souls.

Hmm, that even crazier actually.