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    98 days ago

    Ever seen Orcas wearing salmon hats?

    Hierarchical systems are perfectly normal in social systems. Not in the rigid way your manosphere nutters use it, but it’s still a thing!

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      28 days ago

      Oo, good point. Hierarchy is everywhere in nature, obviously. I was referencing manipulating status.

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        18 days ago

        Well, there’s a philosophical point that’s worthy of exploring.

        Is human activity, including manipulation, a result of nature or in conflict with it?

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          17 days ago

          Biology is so neat! I love animals. You should check out the velvet worm and social structures. Just fascinating that complex (and evidence suggests even more complex) social behavior arises from a ridiculously different neutral structure and evolutionary lineage. As for philosophy, may I point you to egalitarianism as the ultimate balance with the fact that mitochondria symbiosis may have started with predation. The host cell failed to digest it (maybe), and mitochondria, like your gut biome, was like, “yeah, this is chill, too.”