• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    You know the weird shit about this headline? If it hadn’t been from The Onion, this could have been a real statement from RFK Jr.

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      Years ago, I would have immediately recognised this as an Onion article. Today, I have to admit that I didn’t recognise it before clicking on the link and seeing the page.

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      6 hours ago

      As I was scrolling the post up and read the headline, I was completely ready to believe it actually happened until I scrolled enough to see the link to the onion.

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Candace Owens doesn’t believe in dinosaurs, he may as well think this, we live in profoundly stupid times

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      What’s more dumb? Not believing in dinosaurs despite us having bones to prove their existence or believing in dragons which aren’t that far off from the dinosaurs? I guess the crazy thing is believing dragons exist on earth right now and they are living somewhere unbeknownst to man.
      And besides, space dragons are way cooler anyways.

  • qarbone@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I fully ate the Onion with the headline. Absolutely no doubt, just resignation. Only coincidentally saw the community.

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    11 hours ago

    I’m researching how to sneak a Komodo dragon into RFK’s bedroom so it will eat him while he sleeps.

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      7 hours ago

      Komodo hunt by biting a limb, then waiting for the target to die from infected wounds after several days. No restful sleep for RFK, not until the moment is nigh.

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        The komodo bacteria will have to compete with all the weird shit that’s already in his body though. So it’s not a sure thing.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    Funny enough I know people IRL who are right wing and think that dragons existed

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      11 hours ago

      I don’t think that that’s the case. I remember reading something about theories about independent development of dragon traditions based on discovery of exposed dinosaur fossils.

      kagis

      Wikipedia says that the earliest stuff we have records of are from the Near East, but that it’s not clear where origins were. Possible that they independently developed.

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

      Draconic creatures are first described in the mythologies of the ancient Near East and appear in ancient Mesopotamian art and literature.

      Nonetheless, scholars dispute where the idea of a dragon originates from,[11] and a wide variety of hypotheses have been proposed.[11]

      In his book An Instinct for Dragons (2000), anthropologist David E. Jones suggests a hypothesis that humans, like monkeys, have inherited instinctive reactions to snakes, large cats, and birds of prey.[12] He cites a study which found that approximately 39 people in a hundred are afraid of snakes[13] and notes that fear of snakes is especially prominent in children, even in areas where snakes are rare.[13] The earliest attested dragons all resemble snakes or have snakelike attributes.[14] Jones therefore concludes that dragons appear in nearly all cultures because humans have an innate fear of snakes and other animals that were major predators of humans’ primate ancestors.[15] Dragons are usually said to reside in “dark caves, deep pools, wild mountain reaches, sea bottoms, haunted forests”, all places which would have been fraught with danger for early human ancestors.[16]

      In her book The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times (2000), Adrienne Mayor argues that some stories of dragons may have been inspired by ancient discoveries of fossils belonging to dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.[17] She argues that the dragon lore of northern India may have been inspired by “observations of oversized, extraordinary bones in the fossilbeds of the Siwalik Hills below the Himalayas”[18] and that ancient Greek artistic depictions of the Monster of Troy may have been influenced by fossils of Samotherium, an extinct species of giraffe whose fossils are common in the Mediterranean region.[18] In China, a region where fossils of large prehistoric animals are common, these remains are frequently identified as “dragon bones”[19] and are commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine.[19] Mayor, however, is careful to point out that not all stories of dragons and giants are inspired by fossils[19] and notes that Scandinavia has many stories of dragons and sea monsters, but has long “been considered barren of large fossils.”[19] In one of her later books, she states that, “Many dragon images around the world were based on folk knowledge or exaggerations of living reptiles, such as Komodo dragons, Gila monsters, iguanas, alligators, or, in California, alligator lizards, though this still fails to account for the Scandinavian legends, as no such animals (historical or otherwise) have ever been found in this region.”[20]

      Robert Blust in The Origin of Dragons (2000) argues that, like many other creations of traditional cultures, dragons are largely explicable as products of a convergence of rational pre-scientific speculation about the world of real events. In this case, the event is the natural mechanism governing rainfall and drought, with particular attention paid to the phenomenon of the rainbow.[21]

  • Rice_Daddy@lemmy.world
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    Chinese propaganda depicting dragons as ‘lame floating snakes with mustaches’. I’m so offended! 😆