Sebastian Lüttich: Eees ist so fein. Die Horden Sinnbefreiter aller Seiten dieser Debatte versuchen sich in Interpretation. Ich habe das Video noch nicht gesehen, es genügt zu Rezeption momentan den Finger auf den Twitterpuls zu legen. Besonders schön ist dann der Ansatz, daß die weiße Mittelstandswurst versucht die angloamerikanische Unterschicht in einem Akt kultureller Appropriation zu persiflieren. Wir werden wahrscheinlich immer mehr der Opferdiktion der angepissten Internetmasse - besser SocialMediaMasse - unterliegen werden. "Du hast mich beleidigt, und was Beleidigung ist, darf nur ich definieren." Meh, ich bin dann mal raus.
A Couple of Biological Facts That Aren't Really Important Enough to Build a Post Around
Wildebeest are, in general, pretty unexceptional ruminants. Except that their nuclear DNA codes for a virus -- malignant catarrhal fever -- which is fatal to almost every other ungulate. When under metabolic stress (say, during a drought) or when calving, they start to shed virus, killing off the competition for grass.
A number of multicellular organisms have decided that multicellular life simply isn't for them and reverted to free-living unicellular forms. Apart from transmissible cancers like Devil Facial Tumor and Canine Venereal Tumor, this also includes myxozooans, which are unicellular, parasitic jellyfish.
Of course, a number of unicellular animals have decided that they want to be large enough to compete with multicellular animals, but don't want to deal with the whole "multiple cells" issue. This creates some serious problems with volume : surface area ratios (see, e.g., https://goo.gl/i1Jws9), but works out surprisingly well. Some foraminifera are about 10 inches across.
Barnacles are arthropods. This is not a terribly novel fact, but if you cut a barnacle in half, you can really see the family resemblance: the animal's feathery legs extend from what looks like a blind, curled-up shrimp.