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[-] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 131 points 3 months ago

Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 63 points 3 months ago

That will never not be funny. Guy nuked his whole fame status in that one moment.

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What's the context?

(Thanks for the answers, everybody!)

[-] Acernum@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

An infromative biologist redditor named unidan made the comment above. The majority of reddit loved him. Whenever he posted a comment, reddit would literally get on their knees to jerk and suck him off with upvotes. That and the usual tone of his comments made me dislike him. He had a hissy fit with another redditor over a crows/jackdaws. He revealed that he made alts to downvote other redditors and upvote himself, even if the other redditor was correct. His downfall was very satisfying lol

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 20 points 3 months ago

Yeah some of his posts were just flat wrong too, but it was like shouting against a hurricane with how popular he was.

He knew his crow stuff, no doubt, but people thought he was like Reddit’s biologist who was an expert on every subfield which of course no one is. But he didn’t seem to want to admit that and instead posted some nonsense.

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