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    What other lies have we been told? Does time not fly like an arrow?

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      Emperor penguins and king penguins are not descendants of any royal bloodlines and do not have an understanding of monarchical governments.

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        Gray Knights have been dispatched to your location, please stand by.

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          Awesome, this daemon infestation on my computer (Gentoo of course) is really starting to annoy me.

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        Better yet, they aren’t actually penguins - they were just called that because they resembled real penguins.

        Which are literally dead today, because they dared live close to humans.

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      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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        Don’t even mention macaroni penguins…so disappointing.

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          Are you suggesting they’re not good with cheese?

          • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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            Not only that, they are completely and entirely noodleless.

      • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee
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        You sound like a conspiracy wonk.

        They are the only true emperors & kings recognized by the flightless aristocracy.

        Tis the human “royals” who are living lies!

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        Ha! That’s a good one. You almost had me for a second.

      • JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works
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        What the fuck…

    • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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      Someone tell this guy about Jeremy bearimy and timey wimey space stuff

      • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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        A time, B time, and lunch time.

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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      A man in a very tight suit with a blue box once told me it’s more wibbly-wobbly.

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        Was he gender, species, and time fluid?

        • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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          All the fluids. Except water on Mars, he didn’t like that one bit.

      • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org
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        Fish fingers and custard was also a lie

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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      Nah, it just trips into the future

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    • AeronMelon@lemmy.world
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      Mosquito hawks do not, in fact, eat mosquitos.

      I no longer respect those annoying fuckers.

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      Does an arrow fly at all?

      • Klear@lemmy.world
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        Calm down, Zeno.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      Does time not fly like an arrow?

      Does time fly not like an arrow?

      • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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        When we’re having fun.

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    Earthlings don’t eat Earth either. They’re still Earthlings.

    Sperm whales don’t eat sperm.

    Mayflies don’t eat May or any other month.

    • pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world
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      W wait a s second! What do sperm wales eat? Have I been pointlessly jacking off into the ocean for decades??

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        No, you’ve been keeping the salinity high.

        Thank you for your service.

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      Dobsonflies don’t even eat Dobson!

      What a world

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      Earthlings don’t eat earth because “earth” isn’t something to be eaten. Sperm whales don’t eat sperm because sperm is (usually) not something to be eaten.

      Fruit, however, is supposed to be eaten, and by many, many animals. By calling something a fruit fly, the expectation for most people would be that its diet consists mainly of fruit

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      • averyminya@beehaw.org
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        Like Fruit Bats.

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          I’m going to be very upset if fruit bats don’t eat fruit

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      Wtf do earthlings eat other than earth? Plants, animals & fungus are all parts of Earth TO BE EATEN

      By other animals or fungus.

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    time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

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    You already know what you call a fly with no wings

    A walk

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    Are horseflies a lie because they don’t eat horses?

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      Without a lie they’d just be horsefs

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        Daaaaad

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        Came up with that yoursef, did you?

        …Jousef

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      No it’s because they take a horse sized chunk out of you when they bite you

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      But they do? Along with any other animal that happens to be nearby.

      That is the one insect I will go out of my way to kill.

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        Don’t.

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      Ok let me introduce you to the barn owl

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        Do they eat barns?

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        Polar bears are responsible for the ice caps disappearing.

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      You’re right. They only drink horse (and cattle) blood.

      Horse or cow vampire fly is a little long winded for a name.

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        But it does sound kind of cool!

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    They’re called fruit flies because they gather around rotting fruit.

    But there are also “true fruit flies” which do eat fruit.

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    Reminds me of the old joke, what do you call a fly with no wings?

    A walk.

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    Can somebody explain the fruit thing? I’ve seen fruit flies demolish fresh fruit. The amount of yeast biomass on them must be negligible at that point. Do the eggs/larvae spread the yeast before they start eating?

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      The fruit flies you’ve seen eating fresh fruit are probably Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing fruit fly). Most (all?) other Drosophila species (including the model organism Drosophila melanogaster) only feed on rotting fruit. Though they’ll consume the sugars too, not just the microorganisms. So standard lab diets include sugar along with yeast and often cornmeal.

      There are also some more distantly related flies that feed on fresh fruit and are commonly called fruit flies, eg Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly)

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      I’m sure the meme is apocryphal, and it’s not entirely correct. Fruit flies do eat yeast, yes…but they also eat the sugars in the fermenting fruit, not just the microorganisms causing fruit decay. I don’t know about the larvae at all, though.

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    Oh yeah, that brings up memories. We had to do the same experiments in genetics lab, too. I’ll never forget the smell of fruit flies :/

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    Where my cheeky FlyNap sniffers at?

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    THE POWER!

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    That’s what liberals want us to be

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      Liberals

      All authoritarians left AND right. Please learn your political compass so you can have grown up conversations.

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        That was an unrecognized attempt to reference a meme “future liberals want”

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      That’s what we are already tbh

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