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Green onions, not shellfish. Close!
Gotcha
I would like to know more about growing scallops in the tub. Bathtub aquaculture is the Bitcoin.
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
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#132> The reasons for this dire situation include: decimation of habitat by logging and suburban encroachment; building of roads that cut off access to the water which it needs for spawning; predation by foreign species such as house cats; and booming populations of its natural predators, including the bald eagle and *sasquatch*.
I feel like I should have figured out this was a gag sooner...
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#133There is enough spam here, please avoid posting this one.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't mean to spoil the fun, downvote me if this is not in the spirit, but it took me way too long to figure this out and others may be as slow as me and save some time by reading this comment: I believed it too. The thing is, this is something no one is really incentivized to lie about. If some website says "politician did X", then your lie detector turns on, because it's worth it for lots of websites to lie or…
Well there are mudskippers [0] [1] which can end up crawling up to and resting on branches and trees growing out of the water. So while it seems untrue, it wouldn't be far fetched for a species of octopus adapted to end up doing so, especially if the out of water circumstances are narrow enough(very temporary, trunks & branches very close to water, etc). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudskippers [1] https://www.y…
There is a species of octopus that does crawl out of the water to hunt (Australian, of course), but they don’t climb trees.
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#135I don't mean to spoil the fun, downvote me if this is not in the spirit, but it took me way too long to figure this out and others may be as slow as me and save some time by reading this comment: > The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by a humor writer under the pseudonym Lyle Zapato. Since its creation, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus website has been commonly referenced in Inter…
> I don't mean to spoil the fun, downvote me if this is not in the spirit, but it took me way too long to figure this out and others may be as slow as me and save some time by reading this comment: I believed it too. The thing is, this is something no one is really incentivized to lie about. If some website says "politician did X", then your lie detector turns on, because it's worth it for lots of websites to lie or…
The site does include a call to action. I think that’s the point where one needs to question things. I certainly don’t want to be the one that writes my Congressperson about this “hoax”. The next time I need something truly important, I’m likely to fall to the bottom of the pile.
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People still call the dropbear a hoax.
Is it not? The Wikipedia article literally has in the tagline: famous hoax…
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
There are people who say birds aren’t real, or that Australia isn’t real, or that the earth is flat.
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#137If I had encountered this link on social media I would have been much less likely to entertain the veracity of the claim. But coming from the front page of HN, and only lightly skimming for a couple of seconds, I started being fooled. Shows the power of reputation.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well there are mudskippers [0] [1] which can end up crawling up to and resting on branches and trees growing out of the water. So while it seems untrue, it wouldn't be far fetched for a species of octopus adapted to end up doing so, especially if the out of water circumstances are narrow enough(very temporary, trunks & branches very close to water, etc). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudskippers [1] https://www.y…
There is a species of octopus that does crawl out of the water to hunt (Australian, of course), but they don’t climb trees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebeNeQFUMa0
Well that Octopus and I have a lot of common.
* live in Australia
* love to eat Blue Swimmer Crabs
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The thing is, this is something no one is really incentivized to lie about. If some website says "politician did X", then your lie detector turns on, because it's worth it for lots of websites to lie or mislead about that. The purpose of misleading about “politician did X” is to sell a call to action. Any time there is a call to action supported by a claim, there is an obvious motivation for misrepresentation (the…
> fictitious nation-state Are you referring to Cascadia? That's a perfectly non-fictional name for the region ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest ). Or maybe I missed another reference?
Cascadia is a perfectly non-fictional name for the region, the Republic of Cascadia Department of Cephalopod Conservation, OTOH, is an extremely fictional agency of an equally fictional government.
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#140Love it!