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kalofi

cant believe i’ve never shared arguably the funniest dms i’ve ever gotten in my life

cannibalchicken

shoolis

*stays crunchy in milk*

shadgandel

impressive

shoolis

You ain’t seen nothing yet *makes your milk into chocolate milk*

shadgandel

Get out of here!

shoolis

I’m not done yet! *Is part of a complete breakfast*

shadgandel

This can’t be…!!

funnytwittertweets

the-eldritch-angel

*throws ibuprofen on the ground and watches the aging tumblr populous peck at them like chickens*

zingring

On the ground? With this back?

fah-ren-heit

been thinkin about how my ethics professor back in undergrad was like.

look. there’s no such thing as perfect altruism. you’ll always get something out of helping or being kind to others, whether it’s a stronger relationship or returned kindness or just the feeling of having done good. there’s nothing inherently bad about getting something from doing good either, especially since it’s completely unavoidable. people being rewarded for putting love into the world doesn’t make the world a worse place. so just do as much good as you can and don’t worry about being “selfless” while doing it, because being truly selfless is in fact impossible.

and like man did that take the pressure off of Being A Good Person!! you’re allowed to enjoy helping people! you’re allowed to be kind without worrying that you’re maybe secretly just doing it for yourself!! it’s okay if you are doing it for yourself because you’re still being kind to others!!!!!

roach-works

if it makes you happy to help people then actually you are helping two people

braindamaged007-deactivated2024

homunculus-argument

Apparently there's an evolutionary theory that the reason why Africa has so much wild big-ass megafauna while the big-ass megafauna on all the other continents went extinct is because they evolved right beside humans, and knew us well enough to not get hunted into extinction.

So while everything from giant koalas to giant sloths barely had the time to think "what the fuck is that" before getting pierced by a spear and getting their bone marrow gently fed to babies and the toothless elderly, Africa had elephants who had all the time in the world to learn to tell apart human languages and teach the next generations of their herd which human sounds mean that this tribe won't hurt you, but humans who make this kind of sounds are a danger. And hippos learned to conclude "I think I'll fuck up this two-legged weird shit on sight."

capricorn-0mnikorn

That’s true about African Elephants being able to distinguish between human languages, BTW.

ramshacklefey

The original study they did on this is really cool, and it showed that not only can elephants distinguish languages, they respond differently depending on the general age and gender of the person spekaing. The researchers played recordings of different people speaking either Maasai or Kamba. All the speakers were saying the same thing, "Look, look over there, a group of elephants is coming."

What they found is that when presented with voices speaking Kamba, the elephants were supremely unbothered. The Kamba are mostly farmers, many work for the park services, and they rarely present a danger to elephants.

When presented with the voices of adult men speaking Maasai, the elephants drew close to each other and started investigating. The Maasai are largely cattle herders, and they sometimes come into conflict with elephants over water and grazing lands.

However, the elephants did not seem nervous when presented with the voices of women or young boys speaking Maasai. They were aware that only humans with deep voices were a threat to them.

They also seem to recognize that if humans are talking, they aren't necessarily a threat. Humans pursuing large game like elephants are stealth hunters. If you can hear them coming, they're probably not trying to hurt you.

Anyway, elephants are amazing and one of the creatures high up on my list of "non-humans who are probably people."

capricorn-0mnikorn

Reblogging for those fabulous details.

assiraphales

we were able to bully paramount into completely reanimating sonic, I think we could bully universal into a new mario voice actor

madmanswords

For anyone saying "the animation is made to fit Pratt":

It is 100% a thing that other voice actors can match the timing of another actor's lines to fit the animation. It's really not unheard of at all and no one working in voice acting would make that argument.