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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah it’s the thumb finger, like the index finger etc. We have fully truncated it to just thumb because of how it feels more unique to the others. Doesn’t mean it no longer fits the categorisation though.

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  • sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We have fully truncated it to just thumb because of how it feels more unique to the others

    Kinda like the goalie on a hockey team or the drummer in a band. Still on the team, just a bit weirder.

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    • Logh@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yet, essential.

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• dotson@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  how is a thumb different from a finger?

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  • Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its a thumb. Its oppsable. If you had 2+ thumbs on each hand we would probably differentiate them more

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah yes, that’s why we can only count to 8 using our fingers

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      • Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Shit i can count to 100 with my fingers

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    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are your fingers not opposable? I can move all of my fingers and touch the other 4?

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      • Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Opposable, meaning positioned in the opposite. Guys look if you cant look at your thumbs and tell they are different than your other fingers I dont know what to tell you.

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    • dotson@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      how does being opposable make it not a finger?

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      • Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It is a finger but its more of a thumb than a finger. It has its own function and does thumb things

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Sangheli in Halo actually have two fingers and two thumbs on each hand.

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