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[TempAcc]

I read those last two lines in Mordin's voice.

You have just made my day, wierd.

Different species react differently to stress.
Suggest caution, can supply oils and ointments, provide diagrams for positions enjoyable to both species, erogenous zone overviews.

[wierd]

I am the very model of a scientist salarian?

[Silverthrone]

The ones on my farm are practically domesticated - you can get within three feet of them before they flee. Probably because none of the family would dream of hurting them, they're all over the place.

Dad even nursed one back to health after hitting it with the car.

We were rather light on rabbits, but we had a large clan of ravens that considered us good neighbours. Clever little things; far brighter than the cats (although one was an unusually thick cat), and devised all sorts of tricks to prove it.

Rabbits are perfectly adorable, however. Absolutely lovable. They do make good stew, however. Still, as long as they have had a good rabbity life, with a swift and painless end, there is no reason to complain.

[Flying Dice]

Speak of the devil. The family dog dug up a warren full of newborn kits on Easter, accidentally killed a couple picking them up, and left us to kill and bin the rest because momma never came back. Dumb thing dug right in the middle of a yard full of dog and cat scent, in a place where the neighborhood cats have made a game out of biting the heads off of baby rabbits and leaving them strewn all over like happy little surprises. Don't think she et any, but you never know-she looked awful pleased with herself. Probably thought they were just funny-looking moles, and lord knows she doesn't have any problem scarfing those down if you don't stop her.

[Silverthrone]

Dogs are not particularly fuzzy eaters, are they? A neighbour of mine's dog deposited half a dead piglet on my boots when I was over, once. Rather difficult to interpet that, really. A thoughtful gift? Lunch? 'Do some good and throw this out, would you', perhaps?

Cats, on the other hand. They would drag their kills inside (no rabbit kits, but they would no doubt have if there were any available), either to deposit as a gift (or more likely rent), or stash away for later. Only Lord knows what carnage they left behind out there, when it had been strictly for pleasure.

[AzyWng]

Dogs are not particularly fuzzy eaters, are they?

They are rather furry eaters, though.

Not sure what separates "fuzz" from being "fur". Is it association with law enforcement?

[Silverthrone]

'Fuzzy', in the sense of 'not causing a fuss' regarding their food. I me are gudt at spellink tonigt, as you no doubt have noticed. (Well, how much further it can fall from my regular ham-handedness.)

[StrawBarrel]

10-ish in the morning, I spotted a gardener snake in the basement. It wasn't moving so I thought it was perhaps dead. Mom pushed its body into a bucket and we brought it outside. Once she dumped the bucket, the little guy sprung back to life and gave my mom a bit of a shock. I guess since they're so harmless that it'd be natural for them to play possum around us big terrifying humans.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

If it was chilly in the morning it may have also been too cold to move.

[Flying Dice]

Yep. Could have gotten trapped in the basement and lost too much heat to get out however it came in. Your mum might've saved the snek.

[Digital Hellhound]

I witnessed, from my balcony, a single squirrel climb up the tree, find its way to a bird nest and drag away a struggling baby bird. It did this three times, at which point it ran out of birds. I didn't even know squirrels eat meat.

[NJW2000]

Scary little bastards, animals. Certainly didn't know squirrels could do that, though I guess lots of vermin are omnivorous.

Semi-relatedly, I remember seeing a chicken catch a shrew the other day. It just pecked hard at the ground once, and then there was this tiny squirming thing in its mouth, which it slapped against the ground, pecked at, ran around trying to keep it away from the other chickens and eventually swallowed whole. You really remember that these things are related to dinosaurs at times like that.

[scriver]

Squirrels are responsible for like 80% of all nest plunder. The rest are ferret-liked and other birds.

You'd think that it would be cats, but you have to remember that hatchlings are not fun enough to hunt by themselves yet, so it's more enjoyable for the kittens to kill the parent birds and then listen as the young slowly starves to death.

[Neonivek]

UGH!!! Faux-Progressivism really pisses me the heck off.

WHY THE FUDGE is it catching on?

My theory... is that Faux-Progressivism holds the trappings of being progressive and in small doses it seems relatively ok. It is only when people actually think through their implications or when it is brought to their natural conclusion that it starts to show its real shades...

Which means people would be required to think... Yet faux-progressivism doesn't require that, it just gives people an outline on what is right and what is wrong... no need to think about it.

I put this in the philosophy thread but it is valid here, this is what Faux Progressivism is.

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All I know is that the standard to be progressive is segregation based on race, age, gender, and orientation.

You want to actively boycott other cultures for their protection so that we do not steal their culture and remove their ability to express their culture for their own good, because we would see that expression and in experiencing it we would steal it.

As well that unintentional slights are full blown attacks (Microaggression) and that as a society we have a responsibility to silence and condemn people who have views that are not our own.

Now of course these people of different races, ages, genders, and orientations do not need to speak for themselves, you see if they say a word in contradiction it is only because they are brainwashed. We should be responsible for them and in no way invite them to discourse.

Which would be how current morals work if you want to be a good and progressive person who truly cares about people who aren't white cis gendered males.

[Flying Dice]

ITT: Neo notices SJW ideology.

It's popular for the same reason that every strain of authoritarian, bigoted, self-aggrandizing nonsense has ever been popular. Some people aren't content unless they feel superior to those around them and aren't willing to stop at "I can hold my own beliefs freely" rather than "I can dictate the beliefs of others and replaces facts with my opinions". The behavior is old as dirt, we just haven't seen much of it from people on the left for a while, so we'd gotten used to the left being the haven for egalitarian & democratic thought. Same as every other time, people take the trappings of something which is theoretically decent and use them as a shield to deflect criticism despite being garden-variety oppressive shitheads.