• Dragon Rider (drag)
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        36 days ago

        Pollution actually makes the bugs stronger. Maybe they like pollution and want to go eat it all up.

        • @PlexSheep@infosec.pub
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          5 days ago

          They get stronger because they mutate to fight back

          I never meant evolution, or to spark a debate about it. They fucking get stronger the more poison there is, maybe something whacky happens to them

          • Dragon Rider (drag)
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            16 days ago

            That’s not how evolution works. A species evolves to get stronger in battle if the weak ones die in battle. A species evolves stronger lungs if the weak ones die of lung cancer. Dying of lung cancer doesn’t make a species better fighters.

            • Pollution makes their species stronger; this doesn’t imply an individual preference.

              Idiots walking off cliffs doesn’t make the survivors like cliffs; it teaches them to avoid them.

              That said, evolution can be a real crap shoot, and you never know what sort of perverse effects you’ll get: like us loving sugar so much we eat ourselves into diabetes.

            • lad
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              16 days ago

              Drag is correct, but it’s fantasy evolution we’re talking about

              • Dragon Rider (drag)
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                16 days ago

                Maybe. Or maybe they like the pollution. Maybe with better resource availability, they’re able to spend more energy on growing bigger and stronger without threatening survival.