Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world SSTF @lemmy.world 4 mo. ago

You can give a man a fish, or teach him to fish, but are you able to train him to defeat the concept of fish?

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No, but you can teach a man to throw a fish to defeat a drone....
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From the perspective of phylogenetics, if you believe that all trout species and all shark species should be called "fish", then all mammals are also fish, including you.
- Hell yeah. Fuck paraphyletic groups!
What is a concept of fish (and would the fish agree to it)?
- I dunno, do you agree to it?
  
  Those very important veins in your neck are where your gills used to be.
  
  I'm pretty sure you actually have them briefly in utero before they close up once the umbilical chord is delivering enough oxygen.
  
  once the umbilical chord is delivering enough oxygen.
  
  Are you just trying to insult my mother? She has never given me any such ... stuff. Only the best beer, always!
Something between 2 and 17.
- I never thought about it like that.
  
  That's why I'm a handsomely paid consultant, and you're not.
How many did you smoke?
- I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
  
  Shit, I didn't know you liked to get wet. But I understand the fish thing now.
  
  The part that always puzzled me was.....why is only ONE of the number 45s with cheese, if they're all for him?
I don’t believe in fish. They‘re just actors hired by the government. Wake up, sheeple!
- Wake up, fishpole !
What
- There's no such thing as a fish
  
  As a what
yes.

give a man a hammer. and only the hammer.

it is hammer time
- Nailed it.
that's right, fish out here sharpen up the knives; got a taste for man, got a taste for fight
You're asking me to train someone else how to make an entire species extinct? For what purpose???
- To see if it will impact the trout populations most likely
- No like how to defeat the concept of fish. Think of a fish, and then think about how to think about defeating that thought. You have to defeat the concept of the thing.
  
  defeating that thought
  
  Now it gets real fishy. You're making progress!
  
  youre going to need some nonsense like religion to accomplish this feat of ignorance
You can pry my fly rod from my cold, dead hands
Do you have a permit for that concept?
Fish as a verb or noun or adjective? That's what I thought nerd
- A GERUND, MOTHER FUCKER!!!
Stop doing drugs mate, that shit already burned enough brain cells..

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