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Beetle Bros (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ah, I was thinking of this xkcd but it's land mammals only!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But biomass shouldn't be relevant here, right? Individual numbers determine how many friends you might potentially have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Keep arguing folks, i'm learning so much that i never knew i needed to learn. Quickly turning into my favourite community here <3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The takeaway message: to maximize your number of potential friends, focus on making invertebrate friends and don't bother with the few billion humans ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The world truly belongs to bacteria, and we're just along for the ride.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm considering the hovertext and I consider the pounds of bacteria in me to be Me. How are we dividing this out?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I am no anarcho-syndicalist commune a watery bint lobbed a scimitar at me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Do the bacteria in you consider you to be one of them (so to speak), or are you just a cruise ship?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I do have a few swimming pools