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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ironic coming from a member of an endangered species.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And one that essentially remains in its juvenile form instead of undergoing metamorphosis

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They can morph when they feel like it, no need to rush them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've heard that it usually kills them when it happens though. They didn't really evolve to be able to do it and live life as adult terrestrial salamanders.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Agreed. Also, does the axolotl mean anything?

Edit: Also since this is the closest post that I've found related to this topic. Is anyone here interested in a community where people make story-based forecasts for the future of something true today but won't be in the future? Here is an example I did recently

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also, does the axolotl mean anything?

I think it's just because they have derpy, cute faces.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Teeny tiny axolotl

There is really not a lottle

Of you. Not a jot or tittle

So I'll call you axolitl

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Probably unrelated but Axolotl is the the most used tool to fine-tune models by the AI community/researchers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It'd be cool to see a community about it, for sure!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

nah. "what currently exists must necessarily exist". it adds the "must", as in, "the world could not be otherwise." that statement alone is not contained in "what currently exists" so adding the "must" thus develops the statement further rather than just redoubling it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Capitalists talking about nature, ecology, and planet earth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Is this from inspirobot?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The opposing force is the idea that whatever exists is the result of luck, bad judgement, random choices or ill intent, rather than inherent or inevitable consequence.

It's not linear. History is one of those machines with the balls that fall down randomly and form a bell curve.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

inherent or inevitable consequence

Can you give an example?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For example, the seeming contradiction between the values good people claim to pursue in life and the contradictions to those they're willing to tollerate.

That's not a product of the modern deceptions of a globalised economy as some have claimed, it's a product of the way humans are not capable of including the whole world in sense of what's real

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

And why do you think that? That's quite a sweeping statement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

This thought occurs to me every time I hear a U2 song play in the grocery store.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

There's truth to this, but it's very hyperbolically and pretentiously presented.