Yes, I do still browse reddit, mainly for hockey and some niche subs that aren’t here yet. Once in a while I dip my toes into r/all to see the garbage that floats to the top and this one popped up today.
r/conspiracy has always been a shithole, but when I first saw this post I thought it was on a meme sub, but no, those morons actually believe this shit. Truly blows my mind how amazingly stupid a lot of people are.
If you feel like having some of your brain cells commit suicide you can read the comments here - https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1m6p3p6/octopuses_lived_before_dinosaurs_and_were/
If there’s a better way to share a reddit post without giving them clicks let me know and I’ll edit my link. I know I’ve seen it before but I don’t remember what it was.
And surprisingly tasty. It’s a complete package.
Super crazy alien monsters from outer space!!!
Dies after a Max of 4 years
The fact that there are very few fossils of soft bodied creatures kinda misses the point.
All the evolutionary diversity of molluscs is still alive. Squids, nautiluses, cuttlefish, snails slugs.
What’s the hypothesis here? An alien meteorite landed with 800 types of cephalopod, that just by chance share 97% of their DNA with slugs and snails that already existed on Earth?
slugs and snails are ALSO aliens!
sweating profusely
snailiens
lolol
What if the protooctopus is a common ancestor to the 800 types of cephalopods?
Then why are all those cephalopods so closely related to all the other non-cephalopod molluscs?
Alien cephalopod had sex with molluscs? /s
The best scientific theory is the sexiest one, so yes.
At least these are fun and amusing conspiracies that don’t hurt anyone.
Back in the day it was a bunch of trumpers butthurt that they had to wear a mask.
Unfortunately if you have a tendency to buy into one fact-denying conspiracy, then you have a tendency to buy into all of them. That is why these kinds of conspiracy theories are always a pipeline into fascism.
The transgalactic Space Jews sent those octopuses to make The President look bad!
They’re doing a great job of it, I will say.
They’re all-powerful and inferior at the same time!
They can conjure hurricanes with cloud seeding and steer them with Doppler Radar, but they’re too stupid to do it the day before the election. Go figure.
All-powerful Pawns of the Deep State.
New band name?
Remember now we also have… Trumpers that don’t care if Trump hypothetically rapes their own child because he’d hypothetically be doing it for hypothetical good reasons… and also that Democrats control the weather
People forget. Back in the day it was talk about Libor and NSA abusing FISA and UFO coverups, much of which was actual conspiracy not theory. It wasn’t clearly aligned politically, just suspicious of power. The trumplings didn’t show up for quite a few years and quickly shit all over the floor.
It wasn’t clearly aligned politically, just suspicious of power
Lol, lmao even
If you think the conspiracies weren’t politically motivated, you didn’t dig into who was “controlling the Libor/NSA” deep enough. Especially with anything money based, it always came back to the Jews. Like, for decades of looking into this shit, it’s always been at the back of these conspiracy theories. Also, they had to hide their power level so much more up until rather recently, so it was easier for the naive to not see what they were really doing.
Oh yeah, those shitgibbons are always lurking around the margins looking for an opportunity. It’s an eternal problem, and another actual fascist conspiracy is driving it right now. Fuck Stephen Harper and the IDU.
Most discussions about Libor in the early slashdot/digg/reddit fora were not ethnically aligned, the craven ones got downvotes at first. I never read any upvoted threads about NSA abuses that referenced hate speech. No one notably mentioned Jews or other hate targets regarding UFO coverups until space laser MTG. I also think those posts and threads were downvoted and moderated at first.
A lot of the r/conspiracy discussion in the early 2010’s still had quite a few left-leaning anti authoritarian participants, buoyed by recently being right about some large actual conspiracies, and they were numerous enough to repress obvious racism. It didn’t become a lost battle until the Q brigade showed up.
No clear evolutionary path in the fossil record.
…for the creatures that have no bones and only a beak that could even fossilize? Color me SHOCKED their ancestors didn’t leave fossils.
You… are looking at a fossil of one. That’s what the post is about. I mean, maybe they fossilize less frequent than other animals, but it seems like they do.
Yup. It’s not that soft tissue DOESN’T fossilize, it’s just that the conditions to do so are much rarer, and soft tissue is obviously much more susceptible to degradation before fossilization.
Not gonna lie, I was assuming even the picture was made up/AI bullshit. Bit of egg on my face there
The sentiment is still correct though, even bone fossils are exceedingly rare. I can’t remember the exact estimate but of all the people alive in the US, archeologists 1 million years from now would be lucky to find 60 human bones. I’m not sure if that included teeth however.
Small discussion about this fossil on Lemmy yesterday:
https://mander.xyz/post/34422423
To recap: that’s not the correct age or species. Soft tissues do make fossils. This protooctopus looks different from modern octopi.
Hooray, I’ve been referenced! Now I’m a real science doer!
God damn it. I had work to do today and now I’m going to be reading about octopuses instead.
If there’s a better way to share a reddit post without giving them clicks let me know and I’ll edit my link.
There’s redlib and its instances, but as with YouTube links and piped/invidious, I prefer the original link and think it should always be present. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
Lazy people can just replace
www.withsafeon their own and they’re good, sohttps://safereddit.com/r/....I don’t think they realize that aquatic based life on earth had several hundred extra million years to evolve before even the most basic bitch fish-frogs crawled out of the primordial pond of orgy water that ended up spawning us
Resident alien has a funny gag related to this where the alien saw an octopus in a restaurant and the octopus said we’ve been waiting for you!
And was voiced by Nathan Fillion. Was a great cameo…plus we get Jewel Staite in this season. Just need Adam Baldwin, Gina Torres, Summer Glau, Morerna Baccarin, Ron Glass and Sean Maher and we got the crew of serenity back.
I’ve got some bad news for you about Ron Glass …
Yea I know, but… maybe like a picture on the wall or something.
plenty of sea critters have blue blood
horseshoe crab blood (blue) is even widely used to verify disinfection procedures
I read about that. It made me feel bad for the horseshoe crabs.
Is that even an octopus? Like yeah, it has tentacles, but that doesnt mean its an octopus.
The wiki article has more info, but it’s basically one fossil, originally classified as octopus, but that is now retracted and its connection to anything is not known yet.
Oh no, so that falls right into the Reddit trap of, well then it must be alien.
If you’re expecting any kind of critical thinking or even the slightest bit of intelligence, then you won’t find it in that sub lmao
I used to browse r/SaturnStormCube and the like for occultist story ideas so I’m used to crazy. But this is just full blown stupidity. There was 1 redditor talking about arms, and they said it had 10.
Looks like octopus senbei Gis tako sembei
Without reading the title I looked at the image and thought someone was cooking octopus and really really burnt it.
