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Natural selection has no plan (lemm.ee)
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[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 23 points 4 months ago

Carcinisation. Presumably rooted in the Cancer crab constellation.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Lol, the term and the constellation both refer to the ~~Latin~~ Greek word for crab

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 10 points 4 months ago

That makes perfect sense and 2 seconds of thinking about it probably would have led me to that conclusion. Thanks for the clarification.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 4 months ago

Man. Even the damn stars are turning into crabs.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago

Also a carcinogen is something that gives you crabs.

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