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I tried to write an introduction and it was so empty it collapsed inward on itself

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ai6yr, to random

Safety note: do not accidentally stab yourself with a steak knife reaching for something else in the dish rack, LOL. It's painful, even if you don't break the skin. If it looks like I was in a knife fight, it was just with myself 😂

llewelly,
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@ai6yr the dishwasher: invented to make dishwashing easier, for the low, low price of being stabbed by hot forks when you're impatient.

ai6yr, to Birds

Crow intelligence in action: the crows here will eat animals that have been visibly wounded/hit by cars/etc., but will NOT eat animals which do not have visible marks (ie potentially rat poisoned).

llewelly,
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@ai6yr
rat poison is a huge problem for nearly every carnivore (and most omnivores) of rat-size or larger, and it's a relief at least some of them are learning how to avoid it.

bruces, to random
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*What would "animal humor" even look like -- practical jokes, deception, physical slapstick, mime, camouflage, maybe some comic songs

llewelly,
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@bruces
there are some animals - octopuses, parrots, dolphins, elephants, non-human primates - for which all of the above seem plausible, though I can't easily summon scientific evidence one way or the other.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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I don't know, pick one:

A. You have an excellent education, the means to answer questions: building a consistent understanding of the world. You are hard to trick. That said, you live in a society where the powerful can't be criticized. Many things you know cannot be said.

B. You freely and loudly express your ideas. But, you have very little education, formal or otherwise. You have been tricked before & know you could be again. You just don't have the best tools to prevent this.

llewelly,
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@futurebird
having spent some time in various skeptic communities, it has been my experience that on average, people who are sure they can't be tricked are usually much worse people than people who know they will be tricked and accept it as inevitable.

And both groups seem to get tricked with aproximately similar frequencies.

futurebird, to random
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Are you living in your home or apartment, living your own life...

OR

...do you run a bed and breakfast for your cat?

llewelly,
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@futurebird in all honesty, dry cat food is cheap compared to typical bed-and-breakfast food.

futurebird, to random
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At the Role-Playing Games club today, a fun debate. The whole campaign is on this ice-locked ship in the arctic: the DM introduced the possibility of sirens.

One player declares their character is ace and therefore immune to romantic seduction.

Not so, says DM these sirens call out with "whatever you desire most" ... another player wonders if, since their character is monk seeking enlightenment and the death of all worldly desires are they immune?

Apparently the sirens do enlightenment too.

llewelly,
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@futurebird
there were some book-and-paper role playing games in which all dice rolls were replaced with the player making a plausible narrative argument for the turn of events to go their way. Amber (based in the universe of the Roger Zelazny Amber novels) was probably the most widely known. I couldn't convince my players to give it a try, which I found surprising, since all of them seemed to make multiple attempts per session to sway my rulings with plausible narrative arguments.

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