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[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

You found a MAGA voter

[–] ZombieChicken@reddthat.com 4 points 2 hours ago

That looks like self-propeled bacon.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 hours ago

"existing for no clear reason"

So like every other life form we know of?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 9 hours ago

Imagine scientists declaring that you are not interesting enough to be technically alive and you have been officially kicked out.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Jellyfish are the ocean's condoms. These are the ocean's big punchy balloon things. Either way Spongebob is having a good weekend.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 62 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Has no organs

Looks inside...

...organs.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 21 hours ago

No but also yes

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Topologically speaking, no. This is clearly a sphere.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I am not speaking topoligically I am talking about the poop hole

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

As the old saying goes anyway

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

yeah, the mid-ventral butt opening

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

The sign on the outside says "Entry ^" and the sign on the inside says "Exit ^"

[–] TurboQueer@lemmy.zip 69 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It’s disturbing to me that so many people search for what something is used for or what’s the value or right to life a creature has. The point of life is to live. If you are successful you maybe make a child or split into a copy of yourself when you get enough food.

Purpose is something you accept for yourself. Imposing it on others is diabolically evil when they don’t have a thing to do with your clade. And still, it would be the case that a person would look at an animal and say “what’s the point of you?”

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 16 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I also find that to be a weird question to consider, as though something must have a purpose to be worthy of existence

In that vein, what is the point of humans? To bring on the 6th mass extinction?

[–] gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

We're really trying, aren't we?

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

I think try is the wrong world, pretty sure we've succeeded, the question now is "Does anything survive?"

[–] Bibip@programming.dev 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

a fanciful answer i heard was that "humans are how the universe perceives itself," and a person could be forgiven for thinking that the point of humans is to do science. closer to the ground, the point of humans seems to be to alter our surroundings to suit our society: kind of like ants. we build, we live, we reproduce, we spread. it's not a good thing or a bad thing, it just is what it is.

What does "point" even mean in this context??

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[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

So from the wiki

The monophyly of Xenacoelomorpha soon became established, but its position as either a basal bilaterian clade or a deuterostome remained unresolved until 2016, when two new studies, with increased gene and taxon sampling, again placed Xenoturbella as the sister group of Acoelomorpha within Xenacoelomorpha, and placed Xenacoelomorpha as sister to Nephrozoa (Protostomia plus Deuterostomia), and therefore the basalmost bilaterian phylum<

Seems like "where on the tree of life" is "the first bilaterals" which makes sense. They seem very worm-like in bodyplan. Shit from the Pre-Cambrian can look pretty alien and have shaky relationships to more derived species.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 181 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No clear reason? It's because the thing can successfully make more of itself before dying. That's literally it.

See also: ticks

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah man but does God have a Divine plan for him? Or does he just like have to make his own way? Or is his entire life just like a cosmic accident and it makes no difference if he lives or dies?

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (9 children)

No animal has reason to exist.

[–] GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago

*nothing has

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[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

It truly has one hole, in that it eats, has a digestive sack, and then vomits the poop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoturbella

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

vomits the poop

have had norovirus, know that feel

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Kinda like a 2 stroke engine. The fuel and the exhaust all just mix.

It’s gross, but I can’t see any reason this disqualifies it from being on the tree of life.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If the hole doesn't go through, it is only a pocket, typographically identical to a plate.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

*topologically

(Typography is text font stuff)

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It eats.

It is thus the primordial consumer.

... kinda does bare a resemblance to what AM turns Ted into...

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 90 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

exists for no clear reason

Sounds like Humans

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 54 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sounds like everything, if you're leaning nihilist.

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[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Exist for no reason? All life has a purpose, and that is to poop. The excrement speaks for itself.

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago

The universe is a chain of cause and effect, and the only way to interpret "a reason" for something without introducing artificial human constructs of morality, is "what caused it?". The process of evolution caused this.

[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Bibip@programming.dev 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] endless_nameless@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't think any natural thing exists for a reason. That's reserved for things made or at least caused by sentient beings.

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