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[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago

Pollution actually makes the bugs stronger. Maybe they like pollution and want to go eat it all up.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They get stronger because they mutate to fight back

I never meant evolution, or to spark a debate about it. They fucking get stronger the more poison there is, maybe something whacky happens to them

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago

That's not how evolution works. A species evolves to get stronger in battle if the weak ones die in battle. A species evolves stronger lungs if the weak ones die of lung cancer. Dying of lung cancer doesn't make a species better fighters.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Pollution makes their species stronger; this doesn't imply an individual preference.

Idiots walking off cliffs doesn't make the survivors like cliffs; it teaches them to avoid them.

That said, evolution can be a real crap shoot, and you never know what sort of perverse effects you'll get: like us loving sugar so much we eat ourselves into diabetes.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Drag is correct, but it's fantasy evolution we're talking about

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe. Or maybe they like the pollution. Maybe with better resource availability, they're able to spend more energy on growing bigger and stronger without threatening survival.

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