Well, as somebody who likes complaining, I don’t like your new title either; evolution doesn’t ‘invent’ anything, and anthropomorphising it just confuses people (see also generative ai, grumble mutter).

What a pedantic take. I’m sure you would prefer a lot of things, but changing the title of an article you didn’t write or publish is a stretch. The articles showing off a very interesting aspect of nature and ‘one of [the] cleverest inventions’ is a fine headline without questioning how many other ‘inventions’ have occurred that might also be clever in the hopes of changing it. They’d also be ‘one of the cleverest’ if and when they get their own article.

I thought this was a aaron comment at first, then I saw a reply button, and whitewashed comment below.

> Pet peve: I don't like superlative descriptions. They're often counterproductive, because they call for a rebuttal.

Pet peeve: People who HAVE to rebut things like superlative descriptions. They're always counterproductive, because literally nothing actually called for a rebuttal. It clutters up the conversation much worse than "well, actually" corrections.

I thought "one of" is a weasel qualifier here?

i don't like people who spam "well ackkktually" and make it so entire categories of phrases need to be eliminated to appease their neurosis.