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Natural selection has no plan (lemm.ee)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What was the technical term for this? Something like crabbification but more fancy

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

10/10 Wikipedia rabbit hole right there. Like a delightful snack.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Just recovered from that honeypot. Holy shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Like a crabcake?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Carcinisation. Presumably rooted in the Cancer crab constellation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Man. Even the damn stars are turning into crabs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Also a carcinogen is something that gives you crabs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

*The encrabening

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like a horror movie. I like it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

The Claw Snips for Thee featuring Dr. Zoidberg!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It feels like it would be an Australian horror movie specifically

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

They have other unique animals, crabs are universal. But I'm not into Australian horror movies, maybe it fits there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Excuse me, but encrabbening is supposed to have a double B.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Humans are just imperfect crabs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This is going in my profile description.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No phylodiversity, only Khlav Kalash.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'll take a crab juice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The question is, is it actually a crab?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

evolution is convinced that carcinization is the shit, top of the tier list every time.

it's not, but evolution is convinced lol