r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pichipichipoco • 6d ago

Crows plucking ticks off wallabies like they're fat juicy grapes off the vine Video

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u/kungfubillium 6d ago

Doesn't fit exactly, but "corvids" takes me back:

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?

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u/itearson 6d ago

That takes me back, wow. If I remember correctly, unidan? what an asshole. Meteoric rise and fall

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u/MexGrow 6d ago

Holy shit, I had blanked out that there was a time we had famous redditors.

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u/snickerslv100 6d ago

Jumper cable guy

Vargas

Poem For Your Sprog

Unidan

What a time it was, way back then. This just hit me with a hard wave of nostalgia.

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u/WolfTitan99 6d ago

We had Earthquake Guy too, I also remember a redditor who made Streetlamp LeMoose and apparently the redditor passed away :(

Also someone called SpontaeneousH, he took Heroin as a 'test' and his life spiraled out of control

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u/MexGrow 6d ago

There was this account that just posted random stuff everyday, and dude knew the system well enough that his posts were always on the front page. I also remember he was really good looking.

I can't remember his name.

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u/wtf-is-going-on2 6d ago

Gallowboob. Straight clickbait reposter, with no apparent motive. Glad he’s gone.

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u/bobsmith93 5d ago

Now there's thousands of Gallowboobs

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u/domfromdom 5d ago

We are all karmanaut

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u/bobsmith93 5d ago

Forgot about that one lol

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u/MexGrow 6d ago

Ah, yes, that's the one.

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u/Keepa5000 6d ago

There were a couple of accounts that lived for the downvote …. They were so good at baiting people then getting downvoted to oblivion when people realized who it was. I can’t remember the username tho

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u/KrakenHybrid 5d ago

MAN! Those were the days. I’m glad we were there for it.

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u/Bushmancometh 6d ago

Go ever further back there was advocate for Lucifer, AndrewSmith19something, and some guy from a wow forum we all collectively decided to harass

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u/ProudToBeAKraut 6d ago

This just hit me with a hard wave of nostalgia.

And my axe!

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u/bobsmith93 5d ago

God dammit, Vargas. Got me again with one of your insane stories.

Anyone remember the race to 1 Mil karma? Between u/andrewsmith1986 (did it legit, over time just by being on reddit a bunch) and u/apostolate (one of the first "karma whores" who I think beat him to 1mil by going for top comments as much as possible)? And holy shit, both amounts are still active lol

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u/andrewsmith1986 5d ago edited 5d ago

Nah, I ended up hitting it first.

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u/bobsmith93 5d ago

The man himself, Mr 1 million. How times have changed, now I'm sure there are thousands of bots with 1m+ karma lol. And my bad, it's been a while. I remember it being close but I couldn't remember who got there first

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u/andrewsmith1986 5d ago

Ancient history.