@JessTheUnstill @paulc @futurebird engineers always end up reinventing trains. Biologists crabs.
Trains are the crabs of transportation "innovation."
@futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc @Orc Carcinization isn't the only example of convergent evolution: there are also mustelidization, trees (trees as a clade do not exist!), sabercats (they keep evolving then going extinct) …
What's the airliner equivalent—the Boeing 737/Airbus 320 convergence?
@cstross @futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc @Orc@chaosfem.tw Somewhere, a sad furry thing with too many legs sits precisely in the center of the crab/weasel decision point.
@rsynnott @cstross @futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @paulc @Orc that's someone's fursona and trust me they're having the time of their life
@rsynnott @cstross @futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc @Orc
plenty of spiders fit this description.