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[–] 22 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

As far as I can tell US Americans still do.

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Akshually, modern birds are descended from dinosaurs, effectively making them dinosaurs themselves. So humans did, and still do, live with dinosaurs.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Little birds are so cute, until you watch them hunting for prey and imagine yourself at that scale.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I suppose someone small enough could ride an emu thus be riding a dinosaur! Thank you for that thought.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    people ride ostriches, I did that for work a few times. fun

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ostrich rodeo? Rancher? Member of Jackass?

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  • I worked in a nature reserve, a couple times we needed emergency treatment for ostriches, and our vet said wrestling an ostrich to its knees was safer for the ostrich than using sedatives...

    I'm not sure if its true, but when I was 18 years old, it was the highlight of my life

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I went to Australia and went with a tour group and the bus stopped. All of the cars were stopped on the road for some reason. The tour guide said "nobody get out of the vehicle!" Then I saw a velociraptor with a couple of baby velociraptors just walking down the side of the road.

    I think they call them cassowaries, but if you see how they move, those things are goddamn velociraptors.

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    And once you’re done telling everyone a tomato is a fruit, the rest of us still aren’t going to put it in a fruit salad.

    Don’t be pedantic, you know what they meant.

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  • being a fruit isn't an indicator about what to do with it. are you putting cucumbers in fruit salads too?

    god forbid you put a strawberry in the fruit salad, because that isn't a fruit.

    you're the one being pedantic. birds are all dinosaurs, that is a scientific consensus.

    that doesn't mean that a pigeon will be the next monster in Jurassic world 8. but there are all dinosaurs.

    same way humans are also primates and mammals and animals...

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Coincidentally, 41% is also approximately Trump's approval rating.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Dinosaurs and Unix systems coexisted, I saw it in a documentary.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    Stinking Mandela Effect

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Demographically, YouGov noted, "While most Americans who describe themselves as 'born again' (56%) believe that humans and dinosaurs once shared the planet, most Americans who do not describe themselves as born again (51%) think that they did not."

    This does not add up....

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    *citation needed

    Don't get me wrong, I believe a whole lot of Americans believe this. But that's a big number backed up by "they say"

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    This is shitpost, but like... You all don't really believe single polls to be representative of entire countries, right? We're just shitposting, right?

    ...right..?

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  • I spend a fair bit of time in 'Murica

    I used to think that the stereotype of the stupid yank was just that, nothing more than a stereotype

    Sure, there are millions of normal, intelligent people, but there are a huge and concerning number who are exactly as stupid as they are portrayed

    The casual religiousity is damning, and when people believe in one absurdity they are primed to believe in others too

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I doubt it's that high. They surveyed 1000 people over a decade ago to extrapolate that:

    The poll surveyed 1000 adult Americans between June 15 and June 17, 2015, apparently on-line; the margin of error reported was plus/minus 4.4%. Further details of the polling methodology are not readily apparent.

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    Fun fact: T-Rex didn't coexist with Stegasaurus. Movies lump all dinosaurs together like they all lived at the same time but they really didn't. Many species came and went over the millions of years dinosaurs lived

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    me, an intellectual picks up my Dino chicken nugget "Actually we still do" 🥸

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Well, about as many believed it was a good idea to vote for Trump, so it's not surprising. Or just look how many believe Fox "News" is a reputable source of information...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How does this fit with the whole believing in God thing?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    All I have to do is turn on their national news program to gauge just how dumb America is.

    This is probably the reason why we haven't had any alien contact from outer space. Aliens tune into our news networks, see just how stupid we are, especially Americans who are supposedly the wealthiest country and aliens just cringe, turn off the channel, place an intergalactic sign post just outside the orbit of Neptune warning everyone to stay away.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I mean...technically they did, and still do, since birds are technically dinosaurs, but context clued tell me that the people being talked about here didn't have that in mind when answering the survey

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    I.e. 41% of Americans are completely useless and unqualified in the discourse about our society.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Well Thag Simmons obviously did.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What's the Venn Diagram of this and MAGAs?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That's ridiculous. We would make terrible roommates.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    love me a good kfc😌

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Coelacanth are still around, so kinda…

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