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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 97 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Feel like a good sponge costume would allow you to pee right where you are.

[–] MrShankles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I got the "Robert Sponge Rectangle Slacks" version from Spirit Halloween... but it doesn't hold water when pissing myself :(

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Should probably come with a warning about that. Pretty disappointing.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 77 points 1 month ago

I guess it depends on what kind of sponge, but I think in all likelihood since most sponges have no symmetry that this comes down to the same politics as an agender person choosing a bathroom.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 51 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Flounders are not bilaterally symmetrical.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

YOU'RE NOT BILATERALLY SYMMETRICAL

[–] BalooWasWahoo@links.hackliberty.org 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He can't understand you, dude.

Hey,

Flounder!

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a little hard to pick up, but it's all about one rule: Everything has to be on one side of the page.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, thanks, I really don't speak flounder too well. Really should learn considering how close to Norway I live

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

In the tree of life, flounders are a sub-sub-...-sub-species of bilaterally symmetrical animals: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Holozoa=5246131?otthome=%40_ozid%3D1&highlight=path%3A%40Apionichthys_finis%3D3640785&highlight=path%3A%40Bilateria%3D117569#x2913,y-2310,w8.2796

Edit: let me preemptively be a pedant to myself and say that "sub-...-species" is wrong because "bilaterally symmetrical animals" is not a species. Flounder is itself a species AFAIK, not a sub-species of anything. It is a descendant of the common ancestor of all bilaterally symmetrical animals. There, now surely no one will find anything to be pedantic about :D

[–] azi@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

Just like starfish!

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I appreciate that information. However, flounders themselves are not bilaterally symmetrical. I have caught many dozens of them and it's pretty easy to tell that they are not.

[–] austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Flounders are born symmetrical; eye migration happens as they transition to the juvenile stage of growth.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, I know. It's very interesting. But when people imagine a flounder, they generally don't imagine a juvenile unless juvenile has been specified.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't it referring to during development? Like as they're forming, they are bilateral? I haven't taken developmental biology in many years, so I'm maybe wrong.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are born (or hatch too lazy to look up) and their eyes move later once they get larger.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah. I just wasn't sure at what point things are considered to be bilateral or otherwise.

I thought it may have been during the development process, but can't remember.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're only bilateral when they're very young. And even then, everyone is just focusing on the eyes. The body of the fish is also not exactly bilateral. Just fillet a flounder of any age (or watch a video on it) and you'll see.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sorry, I'm talking about like when the fish first starts developing. Like how the initial cells orient themselves. I just have to look up what the definition actually is.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Forego the illusion of species and families. It's taxa all the way down.

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago

It depends on whether it was a larvae or not.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

They're "differently symmetrical."

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 month ago
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty sure from my B- in zoo that sponges eat from what amounts to our waste hole.

So you are supposed to piss in the punchbowl and drink from the toilette.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are a single orifice kind of animal. Take a gulp of sea water, sift oit the goodies, and expel the rest

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah. ok. See what kind of biological insight a B- gets you?

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Toilette du fromage.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if you take off the costume? Humans aren't entirely bilaterally symmetrical (at least not on the inside) and obviously not radially symmetrical so the paradox continues.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is any animal perfectly bilaterally symmetrical?

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Chiarottide@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Might be, but she gives it to everyone else

[–] MrShankles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Their mom definitely got it... Slam! with the alley-oop!

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 month ago

What about phylum neutral bathrooms?

[–] azi@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

Echinoderms:

[–] harl3k1n@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

TIL sponges don't do punctuation.