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mikkupikkutoday at 4:21 PM1 replyview on HN

Note that Melville was well aware of the reasons that "whales aren't fish", and went over those in detail, then said he was going to call them fish anyway.


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IncreasePoststoday at 5:45 PM

I think that's perfectly fair. The same way everyone knows that chimps are monkeys, it's just brainy losers who insist they're just apes

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