You have a spray bottle of oleic acid
Who do you spray: Trump, JD Vance, RFK jr or Caroline Leavitt
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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Still moving means partly alive, but partly alive means mostly dead!
Could you imagine the confusion if you are used to it though... you've considered this scent to mean dead your whole life. would be kind of like as a human noticing your heart isn't beating, your skin is pale... realizing you are in a coffin and everyone's performing a service... hmm... guess I am dead. course I guess that's kind of the difference is humans aren't so accepting of things. we could be unable to move, realize we are looking from the perspective of our head, which is on the ground 2' away from the rest of our body and our first thought would be, "Hey can you hear me? Hello!!.
Depends on the human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard%27s_syndrome
Side note: I am furious that I wasn't able to find the name of this syndrome without ChatGPT. Is this a skill issue or are traditional search engines (in this case DuckDuckGo) just completely useless now?
I googled "human thinks he's dead" and that Wikipedia page was the first result
well "skill issue" was one of the options so it might be that
Why "human"? Seems a weird way to phrase it but I can't deny it works.
Well I don't think you'd find it if you tried platypus
Normally these types of articles use more clinical verbiage
duckduckgo has become pretty worthless for search, ecosia is slightly better i think but without the privacy benefits. i have a local llm running in koboldcpp that i use if i really need to just bounce words off something while it nods along
Pretty much the whole Internet got worse in the last decade. Search engines are a pain to use nowadays.
seems like it might be skill issue in this case. a Google search for "medical condition person thinks they're dead" gave it immediately
Traditional search engines are fucking garbage lately. You search for two words and it gives you generic results for whichever's more popular. Or it decides a brief phrase, however generic, must mean exactly one thing, so you only see results related to a song by that title.
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Rookie move.
Love me some pictures for sad children
Have another.
E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book "The Ants" is mind-bogglingly thorough
Also, Social Conquest of Earth.
E.O. Wilson is my hero. More people should study his work for how to approach science. Passion and curiosity got him everywhere.
Well damn. I wasn't expecting to be adding a new book to my reading list as a result of this thread, but y'all's enthusiasm is such that I feel I have to.
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"Ed Wilson"
More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Read his book "The Social Conquest of Earth" if this intrigues you.
Sounds like propaganda tbh
Maybe let go of your conspiratorial views and look at it from a purely biological position. Like it or not, there are people with more power that dictate structure and an order of things. Just like ants, termites, etc, there are social structures in human society.
Sometimes, pal, science doesn't gel with emotions. Re: anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, contrail believers, ad nauseum.
Get over yourself, read the fucking book, or keep your uninformed opinions quiet.
Like it or not, there are people with more power that dictate structure and an order of things.
That didn't work out too well for the French monarchy, did it?
It's more accurate to say that the average person doesn't desire a power structure but merely tolerates it so long as it provides them with some benefit. The moment those structures become oppressive, they get violently torn down.
Its been pretty oppressive for a while now - c'mon America, wake up...
Lol, it's pseudoscientific propaganda. Don't pretend Wilson isn't controversial
Also, I ain't your pal, buddy!
In what world do people who have more power have it based on biology? You think trump is some biological specimen to get into power? Or is it the societal structure we created that allowed him to rise to power?
The hierarchical structure of humans is some literal right winger shit.
Not accusing you of anything, just find it funny how "look at it from a purely biological position" is exactly the line transphobes use
Christ. I forgot that it's impossible to speak about science online. I didn't once insinuate that line of thinking.
Fuck this thread. I'm deleting it.
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because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Not the anarchists
My ex would say, "that rules like anarchy." Cute.
Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Source? Eusociality does not involve any sort of 'hierarchical pecking order'. The requirements are co-operative childcare, overlapping generations and division of labour.
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I wonder what will happen if they put that chemical into an insecticide spray.
The walking ants.
Ants coming to bring you more dead ants. You will be the evil ant god.
I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.
Was this a House episode?
Probably not getting buried, though.
Probably.
In a lot of places in the US, a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse is going to catch 2 to the head.
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fist time in earth history to get a day off
why doesn't the ant that was sprayed on carry itself away.
smells itself
eh I guess I died....
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