• sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    So I don’t need to lose weight, I just need to live somewhere with 1,470 psi of pressure.

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    3 days ago

    Why not use both and turn it into a 2 panel meme?

    Me when I have water

    Me when I’m a human living in the modern world

  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Aliens do an Earth drive by, use a tractor beam to yank a human specimen through the mesosphere, log the name of the species as blisterface and fly away.

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    The name information is incorrect.

    Psychrolutes is the genus, not the species.

    Psychrolutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. […] There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus

    The binomial name of the blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus. But realistically, “binomial name” is not always the same as “proper name”. There are a lot of animals whose common names include misconceptions, or even insults. Just look at the information about Psychrolutidae (that’s the Family) above. “Fatheads” sounds insulting, and “Toadfishes” aren’t toads.

    I wouldn’t have even bothered looking this up, except that the artist wrote the “proper name” so poorly that I first read it as “Psychrd Lutes”. And the second reading, I misread as “Psychiro Lutes”, due to the weird “R” that looks like none of their other Rs. I read it correctly the third time, but I have to wonder at the wisdom of not writing it clearly when you’re trying to emphasize how it is spelled.

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        3 days ago

        So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP’s post more accurate than your comment.

        I never said what you’re accusing me of saying. When Y corrects X, it is possible to say that Y is wrong without saying that X is right.

        Even when I referred to it once as “blobfish”, that was to state its binomial name, not to state that “blobfish” was correct. OP used the term “blobfish” in exactly the same way. It’s logically impossible for OP’s post to be “more accurate” than mine.

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    “stop depicting blobfish like this, and blobfish isn’t what it’s called”

    That specific one, as depicted, is blobfish. Blobfish is not a species, it’s an individual. Like Greenboots.

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    3 days ago

    What worst, is i found the depiction in children’s book. It’s kinda sad the myth doesn’t get corrected as much because people justify it as entire different thing.

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    4 days ago

    This was news to me, thanks for sharing this OP.

    Stardew valley lied to me!

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      Stardew lied a lot lol. Starfruit for example, only looks like a star in cross section, but i guess the actual starfruit is hard to represent in pixel.

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        true. I think the star representation is fine because eating it the slices are basically stars so its valid artistic license.

        as for blobfish, u can argue its dead when u catch it but aquarium and ponds exist so that’s kinda sus