just keep pet fruit flies, you can even play god with their genome and witness the horrors of your creation, and that's science!
the more you learn about how different species work the more your current worldview absolutely crumbles into dust and you see reality for the lawless mess that it is.
Barnacles are crustaceans, if you slice one in half you see that it's a fucked up deformed crayfish sitting inside the shell.
fungi are conceptually lovecraftian horrors but in practice they're basically just strange plants, and i find that neat.
"woah bro, nice dutch angle!"
- "haha very funny dude, you know it's just like that"
lmao like this it even looks overly wet like all the "realistic" textures in modern games do
when people say "linux" what they mean is arch, all the other distros just work without much difficulty and thus aren't fun to joke about.
this is what peertube tries to fix: everyone watching a peertube video (by default) will help server the data to other watching, so instead of the server needing to send all the data the viewers share the load.
organize and unionize
the overwhelming majority of humans who have ever lived "accomplished" absolute jack diddly squat, they just spent their lives picking berries and making twine.
compared to that we can "accomplish" miracles with a laptop and a browser, just go add some information on a niche wikipedia article and you've contributed more to humanity than most people could have ever dreamed of.
people (like me) who only have abuse-tolerant plants are like druids who failed to keep their creatures alive and thus turn to necromancy so they won't be responsible for further deaths
for the same reason that rulers start with 1, it would be utterly pointless to use anything else.
maybe they had elytras to hide the wings unless needed, and some of them had the wings atrophy while keeping elytras for aggression displays?
if anything i'm glad they're specifically in the trees, and the trees are very obviously occupied. It's the same reason i very much tolerate orbweavers: they will straight up sit in the exact same spot FOREVER provided they consistently get food.