• frezik@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Billions of years ago, our collective great-great-great-[several million more]-grandparent evolved a fin with a five bone structure. That idiot didn’t know anything about common denominators, and now we’re stuck with this numeric system that can’t divide things into thirds without causing issues.

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      6 months ago

      Vertebrates appeared less than a billion years ago.