• drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    My first thought too.

    To anyone unaware, plato defined man as “a featherless biped” so Diogenes brought a plucked chicken

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      5 months ago

      I wonder how Plato would have defined man if he knew kangaroos existed.

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        5 months ago

        featherless tail-less biped? then we could have a story about Diogenes fighting a kangaroo to cut off its tail