• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 年前

    You can apply that to pretty much any categorization we make for the natural world.

    The natural world doesn’t care for our categorizations or social construct. It can, and will, make shit that just does not fit to any of our boxes, and like it!

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      Man: mammals have live births and give milk through breasts (technically mammary glands, though most expect nipples)

      World: have you met my friend the platypus?

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      It’s a cooking term, not a biology term.

      In cooking, tomatoes are vegetables. Biologically, they’re fruit. In cooking, they’re not fruit.