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They're completely serious (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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Yes, I do still browse reddit, mainly for hockey and some niche subs that aren't here yet. Once in a while I dip my toes into r/all to see the garbage that floats to the top and this one popped up today.

r/conspiracy has always been a shithole, but when I first saw this post I thought it was on a meme sub, but no, those morons actually believe this shit. Truly blows my mind how amazingly stupid a lot of people are.

If you feel like having some of your brain cells commit suicide you can read the comments here - https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1m6p3p6/octopuses_lived_before_dinosaurs_and_were/

If there's a better way to share a reddit post without giving them clicks let me know and I'll edit my link. I know I've seen it before but I don't remember what it was.

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[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 46 points 4 months ago

No clear evolutionary path in the fossil record.

...for the creatures that have no bones and only a beak that could even fossilize? Color me SHOCKED their ancestors didn't leave fossils.

[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 4 months ago

You... are looking at a fossil of one. That's what the post is about. I mean, maybe they fossilize less frequent than other animals, but it seems like they do.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Yup. It's not that soft tissue DOESN'T fossilize, it's just that the conditions to do so are much rather, and soft tissue is obviously much more susceptible to degradation before fossilization.

[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Not gonna lie, I was assuming even the picture was made up/AI bullshit. Bit of egg on my face there

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago

At least these are fun and amusing conspiracies that don’t hurt anyone.

Back in the day it was a bunch of trumpers butthurt that they had to wear a mask.

[-] breecher@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately if you have a tendency to buy into one fact-denying conspiracy, then you have a tendency to buy into all of them. That is why these kinds of conspiracy theories are always a pipeline into fascism.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

The transgalactic Space Jews sent those octopuses to make The President look bad!

[-] gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

They're doing a great job of it, I will say.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

They're all-powerful and inferior at the same time!

[-] gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

They can conjure hurricanes with cloud seeding and steer them with Doppler Radar, but they're too stupid to do it the day before the election. Go figure.

[-] GusTheBard@midwest.social 13 points 4 months ago

Remember now we also have... Trumpers that don't care if Trump hypothetically rapes their own child because he'd hypothetically be doing it for hypothetical good reasons... and also that Democrats control the weather

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

People forget. Back in the day it was talk about Libor and NSA abusing FISA and UFO coverups, much of which was actual conspiracy not theory. It wasn’t clearly aligned politically, just suspicious of power. The trumplings didn’t show up for quite a few years and quickly shit all over the floor.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It wasn’t clearly aligned politically, just suspicious of power

Lol, lmao even

If you think the conspiracies weren't politically motivated, you didn't dig into who was "controlling the Libor/NSA" deep enough. Especially with anything money based, it always came back to the Jews. Like, for decades of looking into this shit, it's always been at the back of these conspiracy theories. Also, they had to hide their power level so much more up until rather recently, so it was easier for the naive to not see what they were really doing.

[-] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

The fact that there are very few fossils of soft bodied creatures kinda misses the point.

All the evolutionary diversity of molluscs is still alive. Squids, nautiluses, cuttlefish, snails slugs.

What’s the hypothesis here? An alien meteorite landed with 800 types of cephalopod, that just by chance share 97% of their DNA with slugs and snails that already existed on Earth?

[-] Nico_198X@europe.pub 13 points 4 months ago

slugs and snails are ALSO aliens!

sweating profusely

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

What if the protooctopus is a common ancestor to the 800 types of cephalopods?

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 months ago

plenty of sea critters have blue blood

horseshoe crab blood (blue) is even widely used to verify disinfection procedures

[-] DrSoap@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I read about that. It made me feel bad for the horseshoe crabs.

[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

I don't think they realize that aquatic based life on earth had several hundred extra million years to evolve before even the most basic bitch fish-frogs crawled out of the primordial pond of orgy water that ended up spawning us

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

Small discussion about this fossil on Lemmy yesterday:

https://mander.xyz/post/34422423

To recap: that's not the correct age or species. Soft tissues do make fossils. This protooctopus looks different from modern octopi.

[-] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Without reading the title I looked at the image and thought someone was cooking octopus and really really burnt it.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Is that even an octopus? Like yeah, it has tentacles, but that doesnt mean its an octopus.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 points 4 months ago

The wiki article has more info, but it's basically one fossil, originally classified as octopus, but that is now retracted and its connection to anything is not known yet.

Oh no, so that falls right into the Reddit trap of, well then it must be alien.

[-] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

If you're expecting any kind of critical thinking or even the slightest bit of intelligence, then you won't find it in that sub lmao

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I used to browse r/SaturnStormCube and the like for occultist story ideas so I'm used to crazy. But this is just full blown stupidity. There was 1 redditor talking about arms, and they said it had 10.

[-] DrSoap@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Resident alien has a funny gag related to this where the alien saw an octopus in a restaurant and the octopus said we've been waiting for you!

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

And was voiced by Nathan Fillion. Was a great cameo...plus we get Jewel Staite in this season. Just need Adam Baldwin, Gina Torres, Summer Glau, Morerna Baccarin, Ron Glass and Sean Maher and we got the crew of serenity back.

[-] proceduralnightshade@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

If there's a better way to share a reddit post without giving them clicks let me know and I'll edit my link.

There's redlib and its instances, but as with YouTube links and piped/invidious, I prefer the original link and think it should always be present. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

Lazy people can just replace www. with safe on their own and they're good, so https://safereddit.com/r/....

[-] ptolemai@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Looks like octopus senbei Gis tako sembei

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago

They taste great though so thanks for coming by.

[-] RedIce25@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

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