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[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's weird why people call it a line, we're just a leaf on a big ass tree

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[-] Famko@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

What is this, Crusader Kings?

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

You'd better start believing in historical trends. You're in one. 👻

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

I'm glad I'm not in North Korea

[-] pomfegranate@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

What if my tree isnt a tree and it has a cycle?

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

Then your family might just need therapy

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure all bloodlines have circles.

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Well, I suppose if you go backwards your family tree has circles. But nowadays incest isn't particularly common is it?

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Most cultures frown uppn it but cousin marriage is very common is some parts of the world. There is a great wikipedia article on Incest.

But I was really talking about the former. The likelihood that not a single crossing has happened since the beginning of like is very small.

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Fair, it'll be a bit of a whacky tree. But definitely not a line

[-] PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Trees can have cycles, but trees will always be Trees.

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Each line is a tree in a forest.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

The only water in the forest is the river.

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

That one I don't quite understand

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Humans and trees both have lineages, leaves do not because leaves do not reproduce.

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

*most trees do. Some humans really do prefer to be leaves

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