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[–] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 0 points 6 days ago

Objectively: It's entropy, life is part of the process for dismantling the universe.

Subjectively: It's whatever you like. Personally I find a lot of comfort in the objective view.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 195 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Women looking at this meme: so am I supposed to be a lesbian?

her eye game is absolutely on-point

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 125 points 1 week ago (4 children)

women? on the internet? looking at memes?

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yep. Sorry hetro women, the meme has spoken; you've got to be gay now.

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[–] C1pher@lemmy.world 113 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Bust a nut, pass your genetics and perish. Thats it. What you do in between that is up to you.

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 78 points 1 week ago (15 children)

No, social behavior has always been a party of biology. Even after you reproduce how you care for your young and your extended family has a huge impact on the species. Herd animals or anything that flocks can't function solo. If all the adults just left after they reproduced the species wouldn't survive. Reproduction is key for the individual, but it's never that simple. The version you're told in school is always a highly simplified version of the truth.

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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TIL that we evolved opposable thumbs for feeding our loved ones

[–] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago

Hungry for thumbs

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Getting your finger bitten off by a person who is wearing a lot of make-up? Pls explain, I'm not a biologist. /j

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yes, you nailed it. You really fingered the issue.

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[–] RQG@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (6 children)

At uni the biologist parties were always the ones with the most sex. So that checks out.

The least sex was electrical or mechanical engineering. Just the couple of ay dudes had some fun.

Weirdest sex was for sure psychology student parties.

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[–] teolan@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Physicists: the meaning of life is to increase entropy. Global warming let'sssss goooll

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[–] VubDapple@real.lemmy.fan 33 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Pynchon from Gravity's Rainbow:

"Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as a spectacle, as a diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets. Organic markets, carefully styled "black" by the professionals, spring up everywhere. Scrip, Sterling, Reichsmarks, continue to move, severe as classical ballet, inside their antiseptic marble chambers. But out here, down here among the people, the truer currencies come into being. So, Jews are negotiable. Every bit as negotiable as cigarettes, cunt, or Hersey bars."

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've read nothing by Pynchon, so I have no real context... Is this meant to be in his voice? Or is this a character in the novel speaking? Thx

[–] VubDapple@real.lemmy.fan 1 points 6 days ago

Its been years so I dont specifically recall. My guess is that it is the voice of a sort of omniscient narrator. It does seem to be a stand-in for Pynchon's perspective to some extent. It's such an exuberant novel. There is definitely a sense I recall that this (at the time) young man was stretching to the limit of his prodigious ability and wanted to show that ability off.

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