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[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 108 points 1 year ago

Bug isn't even a technical term. Lobsters are considered bugs!

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

That's a great point you big dumb bitch.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 43 points 1 year ago

Yeah I always assumed "bug" was like "vegetable"


it's a colloquial, not taxonomic, term. But there are "true bugs" so maybe the analogy isn't completely sound.

(And tomato is absolutely a vegetable.)

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

Agreed. In my mind "bug" has always meant arthropod. So it's include insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 6 points 1 year ago

You wouldn't say that if you ever tried those tomatoes https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/01/17/culture/foodTravel/tomango-tomato/20210117130800678.html

I'd even call them candy.

[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 year ago

But they wanted to feel smugly superior! Poor fella can't even be pedantic properly...

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago
[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

So close. Less beer, fewer beers. Both acceptable.

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 62 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ someone get that dude a therapist.

[-] Pilgrim@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

But his username is mentally healthy so how could he need a therapist?

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

The number one rule for pedants is: if you're going to be pedantic, you'd damn well better be correct.

[-] Skoobie@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Display Name: Mentally Healthy

Username: EAT_ROADKILL

Dude is at odds with himself.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

Duality of man

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not a scientist, but I'm the kind of person to keep black widows as pets and create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area. I'd allow spiders being called bugs, or even insects. Even poisonous is alright but it does hurt a little.

[-] Endmaker@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area

You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

We're going to need a link

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was a Google site (from years ago) so all that's left is a random archive somewhere. I had all the local spiders+favorites, but the only original content were pictures of Latrodectus and Kukulkania Hibernalis. Beautiful spiders.

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[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Are some spiders poisonous? Are all animals that are venomous also poisonous? Also I'd like to say that there is no linguistic difference between the two in some languages. There is no distinction between the two in German for instance. It's either giftig or it isn't.

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[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 1 year ago

They're autonomous content scraping internet bots. Aka web crawlers.

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[-] Delusional@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Stupid science bitch couldn't even understand the joke.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 24 points 1 year ago
  1. there is no scientific definition of "bug". the entire category is a social construct much like vegetables
  2. this person's first sentence defined spiderd as insects and the second sentence said they weren't
[-] NeverNudeNo13@lemmings.world 11 points 1 year ago

They are missing some punctuation where it was desperately needed but imagine a comma or period after " spiders are not bugs" and reread.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago
[-] NeverNudeNo13@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All good my dude... It didn't make sense to me on my first past either so I figured that it might have gotten you in the same spot too. Just glad to see the community is not throwing down votes at ya anymore, because your comment just felt like an honest misread. Cheers.

[-] Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 year ago

TIL, vegetables are a social construct.

This article illustrates this nicely:
https://athensscienceobserver.com/2019/09/30/vegetables-are-a-social-construct/

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Neither of those two sentences define the spider as either insect or non insect. Did you even read them?

*Edit: I understood wrong your comment is valid but phrased weirdly

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[-] AppleMango@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

username doesn't check out...

[-] azi@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Anyone know what the first known case of 'bug' exclusively referring to Hemipterans/Heteropterans? The first use of bug being applied to arthropods was in the 1620s in reference to bedbugs (in Hemiptera but not Heteroptera) with the term ladybug (not in Hemiptera) first attested in the 1690s. Both predate Linnean taxonomy. So why and when did entomologists decide to coin this highly restrictive definition? It's a very English-language term so it surely wasn't when the taxon was created by Linnaeus.

[-] Timbo1970@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Except...what do spiders eat? Hence, a bug-lite would fit perfectly with their favoured prey. Big-brain missed the obvious.

[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing you missed where that was stated in the image.

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[-] jonasw@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago
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