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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 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.