The point of asking this question is that in nature flamingos are always on the spectrum of pink to bright red If you see a flamingo that is gray or white, it is a sign that the flamingo is malnourished and dying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
Is it "natural" for a flamingo to be malnourished and dying? I dunno, but if it were common then they'd die out pretty fast
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
The fact that a flamingo's pigmentation is not synthesized by the flamingo's own DNA but is a consequence of the flamingo's "natural" diet isn't actually important It's "natural" for flamingos to eat a diet rich in carotenoids, the environment is just as natural as the genes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
The genes don't mean *anything at all* without the environment If you wanted to isolate a flamingo or a human from all "external" influences then you'd have to isolate them from food, water, oxygen You'd have a "natural" corpse
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
The "natural"/"unnatural" distinction is stupid Nothing is actually unnatural Everything humans do to modify our appearance is just our brains interacting with our environment the same as flamingos eating plankton
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
Humans have been using whatever means exist in our environment - the "high tech" available to them - to mess with their hair and skin for as far back as we have archeological records
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
There is nothing more or less natural about a peacock's tail or a flamingo's coloration or a beaver dam or a bowerbird nest than an ancient Neanderthal's face paint or beaded hair, or makeup and tattoos our grandparents had, or HRT and facial reconstructive surgery today
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
I love the thoughtful way you are approaching this man but science, reason and empathy did not get these people to their bigotry so it isn't going to get them out of it.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
Even as I hit send I realised I was doing no good. My overarching feeling is that it is rad the work you have been doing on twitter recently
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