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  • TheBlackLounge@lemmy.ziptoComic Strips@lemmy.worldMyrmecology
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    7 hours ago

    “Survival of the fittest” is about a species, not an individual. For larger animals pain and pleasure are the greatest teachers, because we can learn from those. These species benefit from individuals learning survival skills. Insects have no use for it, they don’t learn to adapt, they survive through numbers, their behavior adapts through evolution.

    They react to damage the same way plants do. If you want to call that pain, sure. It doesn’t make sense evolutionary that they would suffer from it though.

    And we know it’s not inherent to life. Even some people are born without nociceptors because of genetic issues. Not-suffering is a big problem, kids get infections etc because they don’t learn to stop hurting themselves.














  • then you know for sure that CNN released it.

    Why not link to the original CNN source then, if you want to be trusted? You’d have to do that anyways if you want to use the CNN footage in your own video.

    I don’t think people who care about the validity of a news video will be helped much with this, and people who don’t care about the truth can easily ignore it too.

    As a news organisation they should have their own due diligence about sources etc

    But what if they can’t anymore? News orgs don’t only show video that they recorded. They have videos from freelance reporters, people who were at an event, government orgs, other news orgs in other countries…