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[โ€“] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (6 children)

TIL that my vagina evolved before bees...

[โ€“] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

TIL I am a fly

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

They made a movie about you (and me) then!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Okay, let's see... tallest... building... with roof access... near me...

Okay guys I'll be right back.

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rotting flesh? ... You should probably go to a doctor

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Twist: she is a corpse

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

She still wrote a comment, therefore zombussy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

So I went and had a quick look and you are not wrong. Let's say that vulvas appeared with mammals. Mammals (well, the modern-ish kind of mammals) evolved about 250 millions of years ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_mammals

Bees "only" 120m years ago https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2023/07/31/bees-likely-evolved-from-ancient-supercontinent-earlier-than-suspected/

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

TIL that @[email protected] is over 120 million years old

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Thatโ€™sโ€ฆ thatโ€™s not how itโ€™s supposed to be.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Girl get you some metrogel....

[โ€“] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So after we kill off all the bees then... not all of the flowers will die, is one conclusion we can take from this? :-|

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just the ones that we need for food, no biggie /s

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

According to some time travelers (allusion to HG Wells The Time Machine), we'll simply start eating humans.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, the problem then is that we're not only killing off all the bees but also other pollinators. Although, many plant species are also wind-pollinated and/or wind-dispersed. But good luck feeding all human life with this small selection of species only...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We will have to make meat based plant alternatives.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Meat is so energy inefficient that it would never be enough to feed everyone. And the scale of meat production would have to be so huge that we help on climate change quite a bit as well...

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, just the ones that don't produce fruit and mell like rotting flesh...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

So, there's that then, to look forward to... :-|

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Magnolias have entered the chat

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Asimina triloba, aka Pawpaws. The hill-billy banana!

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it's easier to attract flies with honey than it is with vinegar, how come flies don't be trying to go after beehives? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe its the dung and corpse flies they are after