dicks out for the vengeful spectre of harambe
Imagine the disaster we could’ve averted if they hadn’t shot Harambe.
The entire simulation was a test, and we failed. Now we’re just in the cleanup phase as God sends us ever-escalating sigkill signals.
Your comment reminded me of this delightful HFY short story.
https://old.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/5akkl9/oc_excerpts_from_the_great_filter_meeting/
Apes aren’t monkeys.
TECHNICALLY INCORRECT BY MODERN STANDARDS
Cladistically apes are old world monkeys, as a branch of Simiiformes/Simians.
In casual conversation and scientific tradition, most people prefer to maintain a distinction between the two groups because they’re referring to family characteristics and, in the greater social subtext, human ancestry. There is no actual scientific basis for excluding apes from the label of monkey beyond humanity’s desire to feel special and to make evolution deniers feel dumb.
That said, that’s a valid reason to continue using the distinction. If they try to argue the point just point out that they’re admitting to the existence of evolution in doing so.
Tl;Dr all apes are now considered monkeys, but not all monkeys are apes
Harambe was not a monkey though
Reminds me of when I got into an argument with my English teacher in highschool. On a test we had to translate some words from Dutch to English, and she marked me down because I translated “aap” as “ape” intead of “monkey”. I had to remind her that the movie “Planet of the Apes” exists.
