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If you are referring to the gemini ai model that identified a deadly mushroom as a button mushroom, then that is also google.

Was the emperor some kind of chicken? Gallienus is awfully similar to gallus.

Onan's crime was greed not lust. He did not want to provide for Tamar or her potential children.

Yes, from a superficial viewpoint they are similar. And from a superficial viewpoint shooting a practice target is similar to shooting a person dead. It would be rather stupid to refer to target practice as murder.

It's onanism in English. And it's rather stupid to call it that because Onan didn't masturbate, he used the pull out method to avoid getting his sister-in-law pregnant with his brother's kid. (yes, I know that sounds weird but that's the story)

I guess memes adapt to their environmental pressures

That should not be in any way surprising.

The word was coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

Bony fish (Osteichthyes) is monophyletic.

However, since 2013 widely cited ichthyology papers have been published with phylogenetic trees that treat the Osteichthyes as a clade including tetrapods

A species can not evolve out of a clade. I am not splitting hairs, I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid.

'Single celled' is a characteristic, not a lineage. Organisms don't necessarily have the same characteristics as their ancestors.

And apes are monkeys.

Monkeys and apes

That's redundant. Apes are monkeys. There has been a shift in how life is classified, and for the same reason that birds are now considered to be dinosaurs, apes are now considered to be monkeys.

Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes. Thus monkeys, in that sense, constitute an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (Hominoidea) are also included, making the terms monkeys and simians synonyms in regard to their scope.

The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*****, n*****.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

That's Robert Landsburg although I don't think his photos are very famous.

The series of photos that were turned into a video were taken by Gary Rosenquist, who survived the eruption.

It's also in the opening scene of Monty Python's Life of Brian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxFr3t-tHw&t=178s

This style of halos appear a lot in stained glass windows and those are in movies and tv shows often enough that most people have probably seen some.

The thing on the head

It's a halo. Are people unaware of what halos are?

It's a halo. He is a saint in Christianity.

In the US, the calorie used in nutrition data is actually a kilo calorie.

and therefore one kilocalorie (one large calorie) is 4184 J

In the United States, in a nutritional context, the "large" unit is used almost exclusively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(mathematics)

Your link includes part of Russia.