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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Top tier title OP

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

i try

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cuz they are trees

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Technically you’re not wrong. Mainly because there’s no agreed upon technical definition of what does or doesn’t constitute a tree.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the definition of tree is literally just something that looks like a tree: a woody trunk with branches.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

TIL that trees are the same as vegetables and weeds, arbitrary cultural groupings. We should make an arbitrary cultural group name for arbitrary cultural grouped things!

So far the group is: -Trees -Vegetables -Weeds -Pets -Continents -The culinary use of fruit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I feel like sports could fit into that pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Fish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Berries, insects

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think both of those have rigid scientific definitions.

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

Oh yeah. I thought you meant how they are used culturally. Because we have many nok-berries with berry in their name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most won't consider it a tree but who am I to judge

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

Most are wrong then. If you can make toothpicks out of it, it's a tree.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

You can make toothpicks out of anything if you're willing to find a hard bit in it that can be sharpened or whittled.

Holds up a chicken. Behold! A tree!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

bones are trees? o_o

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So... Everything is a tree? 🤔

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

Nope, that's not how the definition of a tree works. Look at swednek's definition in the comments: it is a woody trunk with branches. There are many other plants you could make toothpicks out of (e.g. that are woody) that aren't trees. For example, shrubs and lianas.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because there is no such thing ad a tree. A tree is just a way some plants like to grow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My favorite slightly different perspective today

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

Every lawn would look like a forest if grass were as tall as bamboo. Every forest would look like grasslands if trees were as tall as grass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Why would she be mad about her partner thinking about other women? Is she insecure?

[–] nathanjent 2 points 2 months ago

He can't see the forest for the grass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For me personally it's this damn neighborhood I came across once called Woodfield. Which one is it??! Woods or a field?! I lie awake at night, guys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Schrodinger's landscape

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

She's got a point