• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    if it looks like a goat, and acts like a goat, it’s a goat.

    Logic like this is why people used to consider mammals like dolphins and beavers as fish. Stop it.

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      15 hours ago

      Doplphins and beavers don’t act or look like fish to me. Dolphins maybe I could understand if you were an ancient person who lived inland, but beavers?

      But I guess part of crowdsourcing is that you get some really stupid people on the project.

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      12 hours ago

      Some communities and parishes in the St Louis , MO area still recognize a 17th century French Catholic decision that, as aquatic animals, Beaver fall inside the dispensation that “fish” is acceptable for consumption on Fridays. Soooo, no matter its appearance, it is kinda fish?