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  1. unpopular opinion, but I get irritated by David Attenborough documentaries. Great footage, but the commentary anthropomorphises natural processes in a way that distorts the actual mechanisms involved.
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      it's hard to talk about evolution without falling into the fallacy of "a species evolves because it wants to survive", but also it is important to understand that this is not what happens!
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          also the internet has given me an allergy to someone who is about to show me a thing insisting that the thing is remarkable or extraordinary. you are about to show me the thing, I will judge that for myself.