Comment on Fruit Flies

RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wtf do earthlings eat other than earth? Plants, animals & fungus are all parts of Earth TO BE EATEN

  By other animals or fungus.

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• pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  W wait a s second! What do sperm wales eat? Have I been pointlessly jacking off into the ocean for decades??

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  • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, you’ve been keeping the salinity high.

    Thank you for your service.

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• DesolateMood@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Earthlings don’t eat earth because “earth” isn’t something to be eaten. Sperm whales don’t eat sperm because sperm is (usually) not something to be eaten.

  Fruit, however, is supposed to be eaten, and by many, many animals. By calling something a fruit fly, the expectation for most people would be that its diet consists mainly of fruit

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  • averyminya@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like Fruit Bats.

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    • DesolateMood@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m going to be very upset if fruit bats don’t eat fruit

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or ya know, that they’re usually found hanging around near fruit.

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• ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Speak for yourself, I rather like potatoes, or as the French call them ‘pomme de terre’ which if I recall would literally translate as ‘apple of earth’.

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