• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    This particular philosophical question was shot down by geneticists quite some time ago.

    The first chicken was created due to a mutation. Genome mutations occur during cell division, in eggs, and in the mitochondrial genome.

    The first chicken hatched from the first chicken egg. Therefore, the egg came first.

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      9 days ago

      Okay, but that wasn’t a chicken egg. It was laid by the chicken predecessor, and therefore the chicken came first!

      I’m really good at MTG.

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        10 days ago

        I got the joke. It’s one of many I’ve heard just like it.

        I was commenting on the title. Maybe it was my comment that went over your head.

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    I give people that can pull of casual sex like this a lot of credit. I’m not old fashioned, I’d just be anxious as heck about an intimate moment being one of the only things I’m being judged upon by another person. It’s such a hard thing to practice and be truly good at (it’s inherently awkward, and porn certainly doesn’t count as practice). It’s a joke, but comments like this just make it feel almost like a competition. I’d feel like I was taking a big exam or on stage without a rehearsal.