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Beetle Bros (mander.xyz)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ah, I was thinking of this xkcd but it's land mammals only!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I did some low-effort Googling and now I’m seeing that maybe some sea critters like krill have the highest non-bacteria biomass.

Either way, none of these are beetles!

[–] bazus1 3 points 8 months ago

The world truly belongs to bacteria, and we're just along for the ride.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm considering the hovertext and I consider the pounds of bacteria in me to be Me. How are we dividing this out?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You'll have to have a referendum, consulting each bacterium and asking if they identify as part of the collective known as "you" or as an independent organism

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points 8 months ago

I am no anarcho-syndicalist commune a watery bint lobbed a scimitar at me

[–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Do the bacteria in you consider you to be one of them (so to speak), or are you just a cruise ship?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 points 8 months ago

I do have a few swimming pools