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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

Sally Amaki is always big mood but is always right.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago

I like how this flips the narrative from: "I need to make my impact on the future by leaving a child!" to "I can also make an impact on the future by deciding not to leave a child here!"

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

Thank you for your service

[–] [email protected] 44 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

It's weird why people call it a line, we're just a leaf on a big ass tree

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

What if my tree isnt a tree and it has a cycle?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Then your family might just need therapy

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

I'm pretty sure all bloodlines have circles.

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

Well, I suppose if you go backwards your family tree has circles. But nowadays incest isn't particularly common is it?

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

Trees can have cycles, but trees will always be Trees.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What is this, Crusader Kings?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

You'd better start believing in historical trends. You're in one. 👻

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Each line is a tree in a forest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

The only water in the forest is the river.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

Eh… My brother has two sons. No need for me to add more.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

The point of progeny is to increase the likelihood of your species survival. Today, the opposite is true. I'd call it luck.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Not species, genes. Species is a socially constructed concept. Selection operates at the level of individual genes which are the fundamental transmissible units.

Bacteria even carry out horizontal gene transfer via the exchange of plasmids between cells!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Baby, thanks to CRISPR, humans can too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

I wonder if decreased reproduction in developed countries is the result of evolutionary forces from long ago. It seems like most animals are the opposite, and have more offspring during times of plenty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

I looked it up and it seems that there are other Homo sapiens sapiens, so it was never up to me after all.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago

I went on a little thought journey about this, partly because I'll never have my own biological kids (snip snip). Ironically, I have a family tree that is traced back to the 1500s. My branch will just stop. I'm OK with that - this is my choice. There will be a lot of branches that just stop because of unfortunate deaths. The difference is whether it's by choice or not, maybe?(?) Is this a bad thing anyway?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is literally the funniest ASCII drawing I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I can't make sense of how I'm supposed to see it ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

It’s a little dude lying down the _ and 」are his arms

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Ohhhh I thought it was a baby bird (little wings sticking out) with one weird eye and one winking eye.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

LMAO, thanks so much!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's someone lying on their side? Like a sexy lying down pose with a leg and an arm stretched out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What is the close parentheses?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Their rounded top and bottom of body?

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