• fiat_lux
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    598 months ago

    As long as I don’t have to mate with Tom Paris, it seems like a good trade.

  • @Classy
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    238 months ago

    There are times I hike out to the woods and find a nice spot where I can’t hear the lawn mowers, the car horns and tires, the barking dogs. I don’t smell the exhaust fumes and fertilizer. Nothing around me but birds, breeze, animals scurrying around, bugs in the grass.

    These moments are so precious. I can turn the modern brain off for a bit and just be an animal in nature.

  • @jubilationtcornpone
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    188 months ago

    One downside of being a lizard: there’s always the risk that while you’re enjoying your nice nap in the sun, a bird of prey is barreling down on you with the speed and precision of a fighter jet and you won’t even know it until you’ve been violently jerked awake. Just in time to realize that you are completely fucked.

    So, you know, it’s a tradeoff. No student loans, or really any responsibilities, but also dramatically higher risk of sudden violent death.

    • Roflmasterbigpimp
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      88 months ago

      there’s always the risk that while you’re enjoying your nice nap in the sun, a bird of prey is barreling down on you

      Damn Romulans! They ruin everything nice.

    • Track_ShovelOP
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      58 months ago

      I would much rather a rude awakening and a gleaming beak, than the slow dismantling of everything I ever tried to achieve

  • @VicksVaporBBQrub
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    148 months ago

    GUY: It’s all true, mister. You gotta believe me.
    MULDER: I want to believe.


    X-Files s10 e3

  • Maeve
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    78 months ago

    Impeccable timing! I just said to be the smartest species, we sure are dumb. None of the rest of the flora and fauna are the reason for extracting most of the planet, and eying the East and West’s wars du jour, maybe the planet. 😅

    • Maco1969
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      38 months ago

      There’s also the fact that throughout the history of civilization we have to spend more time working to exist as population density increases. India 70 hour average working week, European cave man 20 hour working week, one mammoth is a lot of food.