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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's a wonder humans took over the world and not dolphins or some other reasonably smart animal.

Humans are 20% culture, progress, and innovation, and 80% tasty hands and dead weight.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Those hands aren't just tasty, they also have opposable thumbs and allow complex tool use, and perhaps most importantly, complex tool creation.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

I think the complex use and creation are probably the exception not the rule. I'm beginning to wonder if most people, especially in the US, could fish ants out of a colony with a stick. I am unfortunately doubtful.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

Like a phone, which was part of the problem here