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For me, I aam a Beaver,
in discussions with ChatGPT, we concluded that, logically, i had to be a Beaver in my past life because I am exactly them, they are me
what is you'r spiritanimal, /an/?
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>>5098063
thanks man
>>5098068
its based on observations of beaver behavior and how i behave and approach life. we're identical
in your mind, who should decide? the government? LMFAO GET FUCKED NERD
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Psyduck. He can learn Strength at any level.
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For me, foxes.
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>>5098104
Your tribe's shaman of course
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>>5098861
That's a monster

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Pets or alcohol. Which is better?
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>>5094108
Alcohol destroys lives and families. I can't even stand the smell because it brings back bad memories.
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>>5094322
Long-term alcohol misuse, however, can lead to memory loss and other psychological impairments.
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>>5094322
Long-term alcohol misuse, however, can lead to memory loss and other psychological impairments.
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>>5099199
>>5098681
>>5098646
I am being increasingly convinced this is a bot.
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>>5099291
No that was me

are lots of arms and legs meta?
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>>5100357
>aislop
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>>5100357
no

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My friend found this animal in a strawberry; he thinks it's a fly larva, but I don't think so.
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>>5100324
we call them "caterpillars" round these here parts

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I called my purebred champion dog ubermensch in a casual work conversation and my coworkers all gave me a weird look. what did I do wrong?
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>>5100258
Chose to work at the wrong place.
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>>5100258
>what did I do wrong?
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>>5100258
They judged your poor grasp of German. It should have been Überhund.

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Wake up babe, new Dino dropped

https://www.naturalsciences.be/en/science/news/spiny-dragon-reveals-hidden-secrets-of-dinosaur-skin-after-125-million-years
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>>5100250
you're indistinguishable from him
if you don't want to be mistaken for him maybe you should try not sounding just like him
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>>5100260
I think he may have mindbroken you too much
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>>5100086
retard
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>>5100261
don't flatter yourself
you're not fooling anyone
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>>5100279
Yep, he mind broke you

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WTF 4chan and Reddit that elephants were cuddly and gentle and altruistic?!?!?!

Explain this:

https://youtu.be/bfrTxLiMgI0?si=qmeGJnPiT_Bfotcq&t=1055
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>>5099739
It meant it was an Auschwitz survivor.
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>>5093806
it's no secret that pachys hate indians
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>>5091472
>even animals in japan are polite
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>>5093588
>it probably sees cones so much it thinks its weird for it to not be upright
So, no future on highway construction crew.
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>>5090177
Not a Landcruiser. Tip it over.

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Is it possible for a sociopath to learn to love? I'm a sociopath. I have done evil, monstrous things to people. I felt no shame. I felt no guilt. I felt no remorse. People were my playthings and I enjoyed breaking them. That changed.
I adopted a small fluffy animal out of pure curiosity. I fed it, took care of it's needs. It was quite pampered by me. ...and inexplicably, I began to grow fond of this little fluffy animal. When it passed from an undiagnosable illness, it broke me. I've had human friends die and I felt nothing. My pet dies and I become a wreck.
I began to feel regret, guilt, shame, and self loathing for all the evils I had done to people. All because of my bond with this small fluffy animal.

Is my experience unique? ...or could other sociopaths be made to feel? Are animals...pets the solution to all the world's evils? Why do I feel so much now, when before I felt nothing? Why do I feel compelled to do good, when before I was pure evil?
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>>5100066
If you're experiencing love you're not a sociopath

sorry edgelord, you're just an autistic retard with anger issues.
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>>5100199
>you're just an autistic retard with anger issues.

Nooooo thats so much less cool and sexy than sociopathy
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>>5100199
Op finna break you if you keep talking wise
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if you cant empathize with people but you can with cats, the most transparently transactional pet out there, then i'd question you being retarded more than being a sociopath
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>>5100246
your english is very bad

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Do any anons keep snakes in rack systems like these? Explain how this isn't torturing an animal.
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>>5100116
Based exhibitionist
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>>5100093
>It physically stunts brain and muscle development for one
How does it physically do that?
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>>5100171

Sitting around all day with the exception of getting up to stuff its face will not simulate the brain nor muscles. Snakes are reported to be unable to think about lifting their heads up a certain distance because of the shallow enclosures in racks.
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>>5100080
Fuck you for making me laugh at this retarded shit
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>>5100171
Are you legitimately asking how a lack of exercise stunts muscle growth or are you trying to have a gotcha moment?
>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cne.70043
>https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2847/
>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168159121001118
>https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/1821/

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>dogs
>literal genetic freaks mangled by centuries of selective breeding to became loyal slaves of a massah
>have nothing in common with the proud wolves
>slobbering retards that will die if are abandoned in the wild
>street dogs just rummage through trashcans to find man's slop

>cats
>virtually unchanged vicious killers living in our homes
>retained all of their wild instincts
>street cats actually hunt for their food
>can survive in the wild no problem
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>>5098369
Uh, yes, stray dogs do become wild. There's an entire species (dingos) that did. Canaan dogs have survived detached from civilization since jews abandoned them. Reservation dogs in the US have been wild for generations and the only reason no one has noticed is because coyotes keep them contained to their small territory.

Stray dogs in the third world and third world pockets in the US (reservations) can be worse than cats for ecology because they form packs that overhunt cervids, wipe out every ground nesting bird, and out-compete native canids and felids, but no one cares because it's thirdies doing it instead of supposedly civilized white people. Literally just coyote overpopulation is keeping them from being a problem in the US.

>>5098648
Cats are entirely domesticated. An adult wildcat is never prey unless it gets mogged defending its young, but domesticated cats no matter how long they have been feral are always prey from birth to death. Their brains are 1/3 smaller and they barely had enough brain to begin with. Over 10,000 years of selective breeding fucked them over bigtime, and cats are highly resistant to genetic change while dogs evolve rapidly which is why we have dingos but there is no "dingo of the cats".
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>>5098365
tribalism is based.
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>>5093711
wtf is going on in france?
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>>5098658
>Cats are entirely domesticated...
Makes sense actually and i never thought about the dingo thing
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>>5093648
my neighbor lets her cats go outdoors
they keep getting eaten
she keeps buying (or adopting?) more
at this point she's basically feeding the coyotes

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Shoebill thread
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Almost a year....
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Man, or at least early man, is immune to everything that isn't manmade in some capacity, short of a natural death. Change my mind.
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>>5100039
Wrong
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>>5100039
ask the aztecs, mayans and incans how immune they were to smallpox
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>>5100039
They weren't immune to illness, infection or venom/poison

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it's said that pigs are smarter than dogs, but how affactionate are they compared to dogs? do they care about you, greet you when you're home, and cuddle with you?
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>>5100049
Spoilers: they aren’t smarter than dogs. the two species have brains of equal capability, size, and neurological complexity tuned to excel in different sets of tasks.

so you expect a straight brain upgrade from a dog but what you get is an animal that is retarded in all new ways just so it can be better at finding hidden food using its snout to destroy things
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>>5100049
They bond with their owners but it mostly amounts to them following you around all the time. I had a coworker with a potbelly pig and while I enjoyed playing with it he made it sound like keeping a potty trained goat in your house. When no one was home to watch it he had to keep it in his basement so it wouldn't eat the house.
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>>5100049
Honestly if you want something that follows you around everywhere and is much muchhhh smarter than a dog, just buy a parrot, even a simple green cheek conure completely ratio them, but you have to be prepared for philological damages you could make them endure if you treat them badly
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>>5100058
>>5100049
Some pigs have dog like levels of personality. Out of a group of 10 that I've had for almost 2 years now as breeding stock they each sort of have their own personalities, and a couple are weirdly conscious. The most human forward/social ones are basically like constantly hungry and very strong non biddable dogs. They come up to me for scratches and will happily flop over for belly scratches, some know their name and will run over when called, get excited when I'm around, etc. Super social animals that can be very sensitive even though their pain tolerance is obscenely high. They clearly show empathy for one another and form bonds with each other as a group, and with other non pig animals. Really cool animals that are a pain in the ass to keep because of how smart and tenacious they are. Difficult to keep them inside fences..

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Catbros...
The dogchads making fun of us were right.
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>>5099878
Whether or not there exist mind altering parasites that can make sane people crazy just by being near cat shit is objectively and inherently more important than console wars bullshit.
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>>5099797
>NO NO NO! You're all wrong! ACKSHUALLY ITS JUST THAT SHIZOS HUFF CAT SHIT

Stop. Get treated.
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she keeps linking her own threads in the archive like it means something lol
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>>5099905
if you have to ask
its too late for you
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>>5099643
Based
Cat parasite frenz increasing my T


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