Splittinghairs said:

BeefExtreme said:

For the tldr folks:

I wouldnt worry yourself to death over the earth.  Humans are losing the war.  It will all be over soon enough as far as the earth is concerned.

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Don’t forget the cockroaches

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I lived in this shithole that was infested with cockroaches, and boy howdy did I learn a lot about them lil dudes. We had three species - American, German, and Oriental. They all had their own idiosyncrasies and patterns. They never became any less of an annoyance and I never stopped murdering them, but I came to reach a higher respect for them and a higher respect for my own place in the order of urban life. There was no ridding of them; I was right down by the river and the railroad tracks and the interstate where the chinese sumac grows abundant. But it was still my onus in a way to manage these populations. Even as a renter I simply had no choice.

There was this one-eyed cat we called "the godfather", a stray that seemed to lead all the other strays. They frequented our corner because our neighbor nikolai - a polish wwii refugee, kept them fed. He himself kept an edible garden, varieties that he said were a real treat when they were blooming during the war.

Anyway, my dog one day managed to corner the godfather and his posse, round them up in an old cupboard in the backyard. She (the dog) came and got me, told me she had something to show me, and there was the godfather, fearlessly guarding his subordinates. He knew exactly what was up, as did I.

Anyway, I'm just drunk and rambling at this point, so, I leave you with kittens:

GenesisCorrupted said:

BeefExtreme said:

For the tldr folks:

I wouldnt worry yourself to death over the earth.  Humans are losing the war.  It will all be over soon enough as far as the earth is concerned.

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Yeah let's all just queue up for the suicide booth.

If you look at how fast technology proliferates a population I can imagine a lot of scenarios where we don't all burn to death as long as we try not to.
I would say nihilism isn't gonna help anybody so we shouldn't be giving up yet while we're still alive.

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BeefExtreme said:

Yeah it's been pretty outrageous where I'm at, unusually hot and high humidity. I got this super lightweight hooded shirt from a fly fishing magazine. It's been a game changer. That iand this big giant straw hat that I wear.

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Lithop said:

just coming back along the river I heard a rustlin commotion on a small embankment to my right and on my eye level a crow emerged out the grass with great momentum and turned what looked like a tumble, into flight.

its legs and tail were caught up with 'sticky willies' (galium aparine) he looked shocked, CAWED loudly and nearly flew into my face only avoiding with a skillful hard turn before regaining his corvidatious cool

all in all it was pretty fuckin sweet. very hot too

:edit: haha I dont mean the crow encounter was erotic, its just high temperature here too I mean

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PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

I think Piggy means this kinda retreating from the front lines

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Smellyhobbit said:

You guys sure are a chatty bunch.

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Churpee Choozle said:

They weren't bred, they were fed. Domestication syndrome dictates that some individuals started to look more like human babies (big eyes, high forehead etc) and were fed even more. We love to feed animals that look like human babies. They tap into an oxytocin positive feedback loop that's in place to make us endure the terrible nighta our offspring gives us. Same lock, different key. This co-evolution went so far they (and dogs even to a higher degree) can even read human facial expressions by now.

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Lithop said:

all in all it was pretty fuckin sweet. very hot too

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Sounds bodacious to me, Litty

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(paraphrased) Buncha cool shit

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LadysKnight said:

If we spend most of our time dwelling on the past and sweating about the future, we rob ourselves of the life we could be living in the Now.

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