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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of my teachers told me that RL Stine died and for 20 years I believed her.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You have a wonderful mind. Too bad you never use it.

Fuck you Pat Fisher.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That x^0.5 is not the same as the square root of x

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Evolution is wrong. They will never find the missing link".

In the interceding 30 years the hominid family try has filled in quite a bit. Many closely related mammals have existed.

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

I never understood the whole missing link debate. Like, are we supposed to expect evolution always takes baby steps?

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

It's not how big it is, it's how you use it.

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

I'd surprisingly been thinking about this just a while ago. Definitely not the wrongest, but one of the weirdest things I have been taught was the theories of the origin of life. I remember being pretty confused by most of them (though the most accepted one made sense to me), but the one that said that life came from a meteorite from space was the one that tripped me up the most. AND WHERE DOES THE FREAKING LIFE THAT THE FREAKING METEORITE BROUGHT TO EARTH COME FROM?! It told me pretty much nothing.

I searched it up just to see if it really existed, and lo and behold, it is the seventh theory of the first result that I found which states exactly what I thought haha

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