it was awesome being a kid worried about the environment. like oh they are cutting down too many trees, we have to work together and plant more :~) but these days its like its in the air its in the water its in my blood its in my blood its in my blood its in my blood
More you might like
the ancient and noble art of Hating must remain distinct from the dogmatism of the moral crusade. hating has no greater goal. it is not about engineering change or imposing one's will upon others. to hate is a complete act in and of itself
"I don't know what words to use anymore!"
That's okay! I will help!
- Do you mean "the evolutionary group that consists of all things called dinosaurs"?
----- use the word Dinosaur! - Do you mean "what we classically considered dinosaurs"?
----- use the term Nonavian Dinosaur! - Do you mean "dinosaurs that are studied by paleontologists"?
----- use the term Fossil Dinosaur! - Do you mean "any organism studied by paleontologists"?
----- use the term Fossil Organism! - Do you mean "dinosaurs from before history"?
----- use the term Prehistoric Dinosaur! - Do you mean "any living thing from before history"?
----- use the term Prehistoric Life! - Do you mean "just the dinosaurs that survived the end-Cretaceous mass extinction"?
----- use the term Neornithine! or bird. or Cenozoic Dinosaur. - Do you mean "just the dinosaurs that are around today"?
----- use the term (Living) Bird! or living dinosaur - Do you mean "Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs/Pterodactyls"?
----- use the term Ornithodiran! - Do you mean "Just the dinosaurs from the Mesozoic Era"?
----- use the term Mesozoic Dinosaur! - Do you mean "large classical reptiles"?
----- use the term Large Nonavian Reptiles - Do you mean "big lizards"?
----- then you aren't talking about dinosaurs, even a little bit, and should just say Big Lizards - Do you mean "something that is an evolutionary dead-end"?
----- there's no such thing; most organisms go extinct bc of happenstance, not because they were doomed to fail. lol. - Do you mean "something old and outdated, behind the times"?
----- then say Something old, outdated, or behind the times - Do you mean "something that hasn't evolved or changed in millions of years"?
----- No such thing. Every population is constantly evolving, and if something looks unchanged, that just means the change happened somewhere you can't see it. - Do you mean "something that looks like it hasn't evolved or changed in millions of years"?
----- I still recommend you drop this idea from your brain, but if you MUST, use "living fossil" or "prehistoric vibes". living fossils aren't a thing btw. - Do you mean "Dimetrodon"?
----- then say Dimetrodon - Do you mean "any large reptile that is extinct"?
----- then say Extinct Reptilian Megafauna (and accept that includes some large birds) - Do you mean "any large [traditional] reptile that is extinct"?
----- then say Extinct Nonavian Reptilian Megafauna - Do you mean a big reptilian monster?
----- then say Monster
I'm sure there are some I'm forgetting but here you go! words and terms that mean things!
Sincere question about things that haven't changed in millions of years: do you know of large changes detected by biologists in crocodilians? That always comes up as the default "unchanged organism".
mostly genetic, but there are TONS of fossil crocodilians and they occupy a lot of different niches and ecologies, even through the cenozoic era. Being limited to the one niche (semiaquatic ambush predator) is a fairly recent development








