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I'm not sure I follow your protest. I was talking mostly about the difference between "checking in" and not leaving at all, as most mother octopuses do.
by nkozyra 6y ago
I'm not sure I follow your protest. I was talking mostly about the difference between "checking in" and not leaving at all, as most mother octopuses do.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoThe mother octopus never left at all. It didn't move until the eggs hatched. The "checking in" was done by the scientists ("they"), on the octopus ("it"). Not by the octopus ("they"?) on the eggs ("it"... cannot be used to refer to 160 eggs).
- nkozyra 6y agoWhat a perplexingly hostile way to engage with someone.
- Spare_account 6y agoIn case the opinion of a third party watching this exchange is useful, I felt that thaumasiotes's comments were reasonable and your comment above is the first to contain hostility. Your confusion may stem from the fact that you mis-read thaumasiotes's first comment and you were on the back foot from that point forwards.
- albedoa 6y agoThough we see milder examples of this all the time, it's still wild to witness such an extreme case. The only way thaumasiotes's comments could be viewed as hostile is if you consider any correction to something you said to be hostile.
- skinnymuch 6y agoIt appears you’re being defensive. This is the Internet. You’re an unknown person saying the opposite of the correct thing checking in on OP. Their response seems reasonable for the Internet.
- oefnak 6y agoThe person you are replying to is not being hostile, but explaining why you are mistaken in a very polite matter.