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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

a horse and an Boeing 747 are both just transportation.

But… they are.

[–] Blue_Morpho 3 points 4 months ago

And like GM technically including selective breeding if you look at the words individually, no one would confuse getting their New York MTA pass as including horse rides even though Transportation is the T in MTA. Actual scientists use GM to mean methods other than natural or selective breeding.