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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 195 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Women looking at this meme: so am I supposed to be a lesbian?

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 125 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

women? on the internet? looking at memes?

[–] VubDapple@real.lemmy.fan 93 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)
[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)
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[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Old saying in is: In Internet men are men, women are men and children are FBI officers.

Edit: 4chan rules of the Internet:

Rule 29: On the internet men are men, women are also men, and kids are undercover FBI agents.

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[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep. Sorry hetro women, the meme has spoken; you've got to be gay now.

[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] lena@gregtech.eu 29 points 2 weeks ago
[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 19 points 2 weeks ago

It's not necessarily a POV...

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yup, we are now gay :3

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, you have to reproduced by impregnating a woman or you are an evolutionary failure.

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[–] C1pher@lemmy.world 112 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Bust a nut, pass your genetics and perish. Thats it. What you do in between that is up to you.

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 78 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No, social behavior has always been a party of biology. Even after you reproduce how you care for your young and your extended family has a huge impact on the species. Herd animals or anything that flocks can't function solo. If all the adults just left after they reproduced the species wouldn't survive. Reproduction is key for the individual, but it's never that simple. The version you're told in school is always a highly simplified version of the truth.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 26 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Honestly the entire idea that the only purpose of humanity is to make the next generation or support that process in some way just feels gross in a very eugenics adjacent way. If you start with that premise, it's just too easy to conclude that anyone who isn't working towards that end is disposable.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 25 points 2 weeks ago

From a biological point of view everybody is disposable

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

I’m in the “there is no purpose,” camp. It seems like a bit of a mental disorder to me to (without any evidence) assume that oneself or one’s species isn’t just hanging around by random happenstance. Wouldn’t that simply be narcissism? People have long asked the question, “why are we here?” Yet there’s never been and never will be a definitive answer.

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not just humanity. That is the purpose of all living things, insofar as we can be said to have a purpose at all.

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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Evolution is just natural eugenics.

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

We did evolve grandmother's. That was an evolutionary pressure response. Deep knowledge and long growth have lead us through doors of perception far beyond the reach of all life we have yet precieved.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 19 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

How about I do something which will make life better for people who are actually alive already instead of increasing total human suffering by making new people.

[–] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

That's the philosophy group to the left

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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 79 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL that we evolved opposable thumbs for feeding our loved ones

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Getting your finger bitten off by a person who is wearing a lot of make-up? Pls explain, I'm not a biologist. /j

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, you nailed it. You really fingered the issue.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] WarpScanner@lemm.ee 40 points 2 weeks ago

Some philosophers agree with biologists on this one.

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

At uni the biologist parties were always the ones with the most sex. So that checks out.

The least sex was electrical or mechanical engineering. Just the couple of ay dudes had some fun.

Weirdest sex was for sure psychology student parties.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 14 points 2 weeks ago

And there was me, who entrapped himself in a terrible relationship and had neither sex nor fun

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[–] Zaraki42@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)
[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, now I should take this meme down. You've given me a counterpoint so complete I have no retort. I will now go grab my towel.

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[–] VubDapple@real.lemmy.fan 34 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Pynchon from Gravity's Rainbow:

"Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as a spectacle, as a diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets. Organic markets, carefully styled "black" by the professionals, spring up everywhere. Scrip, Sterling, Reichsmarks, continue to move, severe as classical ballet, inside their antiseptic marble chambers. But out here, down here among the people, the truer currencies come into being. So, Jews are negotiable. Every bit as negotiable as cigarettes, cunt, or Hersey bars."

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[–] teolan@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Physicists: the meaning of life is to increase entropy. Global warming let'sssss goooll

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's the meaning of the universe and everything, not specifically life. Easy mistake to make.

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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

The meaning of life is very simple: life has no meaning unless you create meaning. What that meaning is is going to differ from person to person.

The meaning I give to my life is to do everything I can to further human knowledge and to learn as much as possible myself.

For other people, it could be exploring the world, finding inner peace, helping as many people as possible, gaining power/money by any means necessary, etc.

All valid, some more well-intentioned than others. IMO if your goal is to do good by yourself and/or to others without actively seeking to hurt others, there isn't really a wrong answer.

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

So who is that on the right

[–] Virual@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ok, so who's that on the left?

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 weeks ago

The skeleton? Well, that would be me. I am a bit underweight.

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[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Y'all need to look into some of the less boring fields of philosophy, plenty of philosophy says physical pleasure is good and we should be having and enjoying it!

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[–] Elkot@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wait, where do I recognise her from, I'm sure I've seen her face before

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Am a biologist, can confirm.

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm a philosopher. I can confirm the biologist seems right

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[–] Nay@feddit.nl 13 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

Imo, the meaning of life is to experience as much as possible. Simple as that.

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