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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because there is no such thing ad a tree. A tree is just a way some plants like to grow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

My favorite slightly different perspective today

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Why would she be mad about her partner thinking about other women? Is she insecure?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

She's got a point

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Technically you’re not wrong. Mainly because there’s no agreed upon technical definition of what does or doesn’t constitute a tree.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the definition of tree is literally just something that looks like a tree: a woody trunk with branches.

[–] Yondoza 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

TIL that trees are the same as vegetables and weeds, arbitrary cultural groupings. We should make an arbitrary cultural group name for arbitrary cultural grouped things!

So far the group is: -Trees -Vegetables -Weeds -Pets -Continents -The culinary use of fruit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I feel like sports could fit into that pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most won't consider it a tree but who am I to judge

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Most are wrong then. If you can make toothpicks out of it, it's a tree.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

You can make toothpicks out of anything if you're willing to find a hard bit in it that can be sharpened or whittled.

Holds up a chicken. Behold! A tree!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

bones are trees? o_o

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So... Everything is a tree? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Every lawn would look like a forest if grass were as tall as bamboo. Every forest would look like grasslands if trees were as tall as grass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For me personally it's this damn neighborhood I came across once called Woodfield. Which one is it??! Woods or a field?! I lie awake at night, guys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Schrodinger's landscape

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

He can't see the forest for the grass.