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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

It's weird why people call it a line, we're just a leaf on a big ass tree

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Famko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is this, Crusader Kings?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

You'd better start believing in historical trends. You're in one. 👻

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

I'm glad I'm not in North Korea

[–] UmeU@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Each line is a tree in a forest.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

The only water in the forest is the river.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That one I don't quite understand

[–] UmeU@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Humans and trees both have lineages, leaves do not because leaves do not reproduce.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

*most trees do. Some humans really do prefer to be leaves

[–] pomfegranate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What if my tree isnt a tree and it has a cycle?

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then your family might just need therapy

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure all bloodlines have circles.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, I suppose if you go backwards your family tree has circles. But nowadays incest isn't particularly common is it?

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most cultures frown uppn it but cousin marriage is very common is some parts of the world. There is a great wikipedia article on Incest.

But I was really talking about the former. The likelihood that not a single crossing has happened since the beginning of like is very small.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Fair, it'll be a bit of a whacky tree. But definitely not a line

[–] PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trees can have cycles, but trees will always be Trees.