skybox@lemm.ee to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoCoast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlanticwww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down16cross-posted to: offbeat@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1170arrow-down1external-linkCoast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlanticwww.npr.orgskybox@lemm.ee to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square35fedilinkcross-posted to: offbeat@lemmy.ca
minus-squarevettnerk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIsn’t that basically what evolution is?
minus-squarevettnerk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoTrue, but now and then, stupid shit by stupid people pays off: “Let’s use this raft and head for open waters” -> discovers hawaii “I’m sick of foraging. Imma dive into the water and pry open that thing on the rock down there” -> Oysters “Why the fuck are you burning perfectly good mammoth?” -> BBQ
minus-squarestilgar [he/him] @infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThe idea is that you should die and not further your genes if you do such idiotic things (that’s the premise of the Darwin awards), this guy is very stubbornly not dying!
Isn’t that basically what evolution is?
True, but now and then, stupid shit by stupid people pays off:
The idea is that you should die and not further your genes if you do such idiotic things (that’s the premise of the Darwin awards), this guy is very stubbornly not dying!