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Post by tolciho »

bigDinosaur wrote: post #103
NooneAtAll3 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's like saying tomato is a fruit in biological journal, sure - for practical purposes straight up no if it looks like a jellyfish, stings like a jellyfish and behaves like a jellyfish - then it doesn't matter what it looks like under a microscope, it is jellyfish

Many people now know that a tomato is a fruit, and will distinguish it with exactly the 'did you know a tomato is not a vegetable?' fun fact, so I'm not sure this is a great point. If someone asked me to list vegetables and they were being rigorous about it I wouldn't list a tomato. If they're not being rigorous about it then anything goes really - sometimes you can put things like apples in a salad so that must be a…

According to Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893) a tomato is a vegetable, so the riourous may need to account for that in the appropriate jurisdictions, especially if tarrifs are on the line, or at least to rember to have bigger lawyers than the competition. Also a carrot is a fruit (in EU, for purposes of jam classification), "I can't believe that superhero doll is not a doll", etc.

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Post by pinkmuffinere »

eutropia wrote: post #148
jmtulloss wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what I'm saying. Chipmunks are not squirrels. I will do my best on this hill.

is "do my best" some kind of weird censorship-speak euphemism for "die"???

I think it's meant to convey "I'm not willing to _die_, but I do feel strongly"

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Post by pdabbadabba »

meatmanek wrote: post #57
pdabbadabba wrote: post #41

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Similarly, it insisted to me that a pigeon is the same thing as a mourning dove. Not true! But your case is even more egregious.

"pigeon" and "dove" are both words for the same family of birds. The bird most people think of with the word "pigeon" is the rock dove ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_dove ) or domesticated / feral variants of it.

True. But I did not ask about "pigeon" and "dove." I asked it about "pigeon" and "mourning dove" which are unambiguously different species. Different genuses, even. Zenaida macroura v. Columba livia.

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Post by julianeon »

maxbond wrote: post #6

I got 42. I was very impressed by how it handled more and less specific categories. It also understood rotifers were a microscopic animal, which I half expected not to work. Great project.

We should be friends. I got 47. In my defense, I was tired.

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Post by maxbond »

julianeon wrote: post #176
maxbond wrote: post #6

I got 42. I was very impressed by how it handled more and less specific categories. It also understood rotifers were a microscopic animal, which I half expected not to work. Great project.

We should be friends. I got 47. In my defense, I was tired.

I was the first to post my score and I thought I did pretty well. Pure hubris! Looking forward to brunch (/j, I'm pretty far away).

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Post by philipwhiuk »

Slugs and snails are not the same. I quickly Google'd the latin for a snail to work around it.

On the other hand I got 79 and I forgot to say Chicken.

It would be helpful if the list was ordered maybe but I guess that's part of the fun.

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