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chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Sphks@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Their lifespan is an issue. They live around 2 to 3 years before dying.

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  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also, the act of reproducing kills the mother. Basically starved to death protecting the eggs. No generational knowledge.

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    • accideath@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also doesn’t help that they live underwater. Makes it kinda hard to harness the power of fire or electricity. Especially the former was very important for human domination

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    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And the dad doesn’t care. Pfeh, typical. /lh

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      • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They usually feed the mom, IIRC.

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• baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  there are social octopuses, like the larger pacific striped octopus. imo octopuses had 150 million years to rule the planet and they just weren’t good enough. skill issue. us humans only had 2-4 million years. i’d say we’re doing quite well comparatively.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe their version of “rule the planet” involved mostly just hanging out in their den and thinking interesting thoughts.

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    • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep they just hang out and do wtf they want to do. They’re not going to work and having politics about whose turn it is to make coffee, or why Will should never have got promoted over Kay. Really they’re the smarter species

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      • snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

        Douglas Adams, The Hitchikern Guide to the Galaxy

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    • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s their problem. No work ethic.

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  • scratchee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They ruled the planet for 150 million years and didn’t ruin the environment once ? What are they even doing?

    We’re clearly superior, who else could speed run the mass extinction end game?

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They ruled the planet for 150 million years and didn’t ruin the environment once ?

      That’s what the octopodes want you to think.

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    • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They survived the K-T extiction event ir K-Pg event which killed perhaps 75% of species in earth 66 milliin years ago.

      While we are already causing an extinction event which will probably far worse, by causing temperatures to rise to a level higher than in hundreds of millions of years. And I am not so sure that we survive that in the long run. Humans are incredibly adaptable, that’s right. But our food sources are not, and the great mayority of them (except perhaps algae and mushrooms) are far younger in an evolutionary sense, so it is unlikely they can adapt.

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      • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        temperatures have been higher, what hasn’t happened yet is temperatures changing at such speeds

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  • adhd_traco@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think domination is actually intelligent or smart.

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• sudoshakes@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Octopi if the base word was Latin. It’s Greek, so octopodes for plural. Technically.

  Because English is a bastard if a language octopuses and octopi are fine too.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I nominate “octopodusai” to be the new English plural. (Where’d the “a” come from? To make it easier to confuse ‘ai’ with æ because fuck you, that’s why, of course!)

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  • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If it was Latin, the singular would be octoped(e) and the plural would be octopedes

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  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Octopodes?

    Ahk-top-o-deez nutz.

    English can always make things worse.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So “eight foot” and “eight feet”?

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fire is a major limitation.

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