That’s up there with, the deer isn’t crossing the road, the road is crossing the forest. Always good to embrace new perspectives.
On that note, humans are nature. When other animals build things like beavers building dams, or bees building hives, ants building hills, termites building thermodynamically efficient concrete (sort of) structures etc., we still call those things “natural.”
Point is: all our modern infrastructure is natural because building shit is just what our species does and we are just as much nature as any other species is.
We aren’t special; we’re just another weird species in a long history. We aren’t the only species to build stuff, aren’t the only species reshape the environment around us, aren’t the only species to literally poison the area around ourselves (and hey we mostly do it on accident whereas pine trees kinda do it on purpose). Hell, the Great Oxidation Event literally filled the whole atmosphere with what was—at the time—basically poison. That event not only caused mass extinction on a global scale, but it also changed geology and mineral formation worldwide.
We aren’t special just because our machines are often made of metal instead of proteins. We’re just another species on this rock, and everything we’ve built is just another mark on that rock made by life.
Yeah but has another species invented machines that exist solely to torment others of the same species (printers)?
This is why I laugh every time i see a bottle of vitamins from “natural sources”. How is one supposed to discern the origin of a given molecule of ascorbic acid?
The number of ppl who don’t understand this is truly stunning. For some reason ppl think being superior to nature is desirable. It is foolish at best, catastrophic otherwise.
What I find fun to think about is how we are still evolving. How things like Tinder will change evolution and biology.
It’s like people who say “you need to be self sufficient” or “I’m self sufficient (and I don’t need welfare”. I always ask “do you boil your own water” obvious they say no then I have to point out that you’re reliant on water company or city to clean water for you.
It makes it clear that even the things in water are out to fuck your shit up
Also, penis fencing.
You can just plant hedges dude. I bet your neighbors think you are the weirdest
And since we’re organisms living in a colony on a planet floating amongst the cosmos you’re an alien. Just not alien to this planet that we know of
Uh, negative, I am a meat popsicle.
That’s not what “wild” means…
We don’t need to know what you do with your partner behind closed doors.
And you REALLY don’t need to know what I do with closed doors behind partners.
Those cute ducks are super rapey, and they have monstrous Cthuloid torture penises
don’t look it up
Cats can have multiple partners (the same day)
I found out by walking in on them
Cadette, if you’re reading this, your mother and I are very disappointed in your behavior
(Nah, but seriously though, it’s for genetic reasons, it’s actually quite a cool thing)
So what I can too
In theory 😔
There are more stars in the observable universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on earth.
