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[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

People put pine nuts in salads all the time, and rodents do as well. It's also one of the 5 ingredients of pesto.

And why the airplane?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

...what kind of pine nuts are you eating? the ones i've eaten are just seeds, not made of wood. i wouldn't want bark or wood chips in a salad, would you?

the plane is a classic example of survivor bias: only the planes that didn't get shot in critical areas returned, but at first the response was to add armor to the places that got shot the most, which is the wrong action since clearly if they got shot that much it didn't really matter for the survival of the plane.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 1 points 15 hours ago

The pine nuts are the seeds that are inside the pine cones. The pinecone being wooden clearly didn't stop us from prying them apart and eating it's content