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[spanishskulduggery]

Just discovered while talking to someone in Spanish that "Adiós" is more of a permanent goodbye, something you might say to someone you expect to never meet again, like a stranger. Instead, he said I should use "nos vemos" when speaking with people I know, which makes sense. I was wondering what other goodbyes I could use that aren't permanent? Obviously there's "hasta luego" and "hasta mañana."

I wouldn't go that far necessarily, but yes adiós can be used for people you don't expect to see for a long time (possibly never again like sayonara means in Japanese)

Literally, adiós is "go with God" which would have been a lot more impactful in the time of needing to journey days/weeks/months to meet some relatives, and possibly having to deal with war, disease, wild animals etc

A lot of Western langauges have something similar, even "goodbye" is "God be with you/ye"

Some people do use it for a permanent goodbye. Others use it for an indefinite but probably long period of goodbye

And some people just say adiós as a standard goodbye with no deeper meaning other than "bye"

Note: You can also say adiosito which I wouldn't necessarily recommend outside of polite conversation since it can sound sarcastic; it's like "toodle-oo" but it's literally a little goodbye

Note 2: If you vehemently hate someone and you hope to never see them again, you can say hasta nunca which is like "see you never" and I think that's beautiful

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Today people do use adiós just as "goodbye" though it can read as "we won't see each other for a while"

The more short-term is nos vemos "we will see each other"

Another variation is a direct object version rather than reflexive. You can say te veo pronto "I'll see you soon" for example, instead of nos vemos pronto "we will see each other soon", that sort of thing

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There's also hasta pronto "see you soon", hasta la próxima "see you next time"

And a lot of people have adapted certain words into Spanish like bye/bai or chau/chao for goodbyes

chau/chao in particular comes from ciao and is super common especially in South America

Another common one I say is cuídate "take care of yourself" / cuídese for polite, cuídense for plural

Depending on context you can also say ¡Suerte! "Good luck!" (or ¡Buena suerte! or ¡Que tengas mucha suerte! "Hope you have lots of luck" or te deseo mucha suerte etc)....

Another common one I say is ¡Ánimo! which means something like "Chin up!" but literally it's "energy" or "cheer"; if you're saying ánimo with someone you're essentially saying ¡Aguanta! or ¡Resiste! which is like "Hang in there!" or trying to pep someone up, where animar is "to cheer someone on" so it's all related there

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Also I know you said spoken but just in case, if you're signing off on a letter/email there are some basic phrases you can use:

saludos = (a generic kind of goodbye) [lit. "salutations" or "regards"] un cordial saludo = (something like "kind regards")

atentamente = "yours truly" / "sincerely" [lit. "attentively"]

estamos en contacto / estaremos en contacto = "we'll be in touch"

And if you're writing a friendly letter you can say abrazos or besos for "hugs" and "kisses" respectively; it's very common to say something like te mando un abrazo "I'm sending you a hug" or something like that

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Also, if you're at a party or something, you can say something like ya me voy or me largo or something like "I'm heading out"

I tend to say something like hora de irme "time for me to go" because in my English-speaking brain saying me largo feels awkward like I'm storming out but I know that's not what that always means

Additionally you can say debo irme "I should go", something along those lines is pretty standard

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If you're being funny, I think me piro vampiro is somewhat used in Spain (but maybe not so much now)... it's just there for the rhyme. Literally "I'm out, vampire" or "I'm leaving, vampire" [pirarse is an idiomatic way of saying "to leave"]

For Latin America, more common would be chao/chau pescao which is literally "goodbye seafood/fish" since pescao is an informal spelling of pescado where the D can kind of be aspirated

You may also see/hear chao/chau bacalao "goodbye cod"

Again, all for the rhyme. The equivalent of "see you later alligator" in English. Everyone loves a rhyme

But obviously only do this among friends because it's informal and a bit childish

[ms-demeanor]

Due to some stuff brought up in recent posts I believe it is time to once again extol the virtues of Ms-Demeanor's Patented Where Did I Put That Fucking Paper Organizational Binder.

Hello! I am a disorganized adult! This is the system by which I manage my important shit like pink slips for my car and medical records and tax information.

You're going to need:

A 3-Ring Binder

Transparent Sheet Protectors

Notebook dividers (optional but VERY useful)

A backpack (optional)

So the way this system works is you put the sheet protectors into the binder. You can either use the dividers to divide the binder into sections or you can label some of the sheet protectors to make different sections but what you are generally going to do is make sections of the binder labeled things like "taxes" or "vet" or "doctor" and put a few sheet protectors in each section.

Then all of your papers with important information get crammed in that folder. You don't organize them, you don't sort them by date, you don't alphabetize. You put things vaguely relating to taxes into the sheet protectors in the taxes section. You put things relating to cars in the cars section. You don't even attempt to make this readable - you're not using sheet protectors so that you can read each page and keep it legible, you're using sheet protectors because it's a cheap plastic bag that will sit nicely in a binder.

You CAN put stuff into the individual sheet protectors when you get it, but let's be realistic you probably WON'T do that, so just tuck individual papers into the front of the binder until you get to a critical mass of paperwork then take an hour to sit down and sort into categories and put it in the binder once every six months to three years (depending on how frequently you get paperwork). Sometimes these sections will outgrow their original allotted space - since my spouse had a transplant surgery the medical section has had to become its own folder - and that's okay. If you end up with multiple folders just keep them together (this is why the backpack is an option, and one I strongly recommend).

Because yeah, if my organization system relies on opening up a drawer and putting something where it belongs as soon as I get the paper, I will simply not be organized. It's not going to happen. But I can handle a messy stack of paper that sits in one place and grows until it is time to shove it into a binder. I can't organize things for thirty seconds a day every day but I can organize things for an hour once every year or so (maybe two hours every five years when I sort out stuff I don't need like copies of warranties for parts on a car I don't own anymore).

When my mom died she had about fifty pounds of paper files in her office that were neatly organized in a system that didn't make any sense to my dad, my sister, and I. I ended up sorting through those files for twenty hours, tossing out copies of paid invoices from ten years ago and student handbooks from my junior high school. I reduced one filing cabinet, two desk file drawers, and a foot-high stack to a six inch binder that I gave to my dad. My mom died five years ago; two months ago my dad asked me about a medical document and I was able to tell him to go look for it in the medical section of the binder. It was there, because ALL IMPORTANT SHIT GOES IN THE BINDER.

Where is my birth certificate? In the binder. Where is my tax return from 2017? In the binder. Where is the record of my dog's last rabies shot? In the binder. Where are the records for my life insurance? In the binder.

A lot of what people consider "being organized" breaks down to whether or not you can find the specific things that you're looking for. Does my binder look nice? Is it aesthetic? Does it have color-coded tabs and papers all laid out neatly? Absolutely fucking not. But if you ask me where to find a paper I know that I can do so within about five minutes of shuffling through the pile of letter-folded sheets that I pulled out of the appropriate section of the binder.

I've discussed the Where Did I Put that Fucking Paper Binder before, but now it is time to expand that concept to the Backpack of Important Shit.

You likely have Important Shit that does not fit in a binder. Some of my Important Shit that does not fit in a binder is stuff like jewelry and the spare key for my car. Other stuff - the reason I decided to bring this up at all - includes my backup hard drive and packaging (including product key codes) for pretty much all of the software that I own. This is also where I store printed out copies of the recovery codes for most of the online accounts that I have.

There's a lot of weird fiddly shit that we have to have that we might not access all that often. This is the kind of stuff that might end up in junk drawers or under sinks or in disused laptop bags or kicking around under a bunch of papers in a desk drawer.

It doesn't matter so much when that weird fiddly shit is a set of hex keys or a utility knife or a protractor or a copy of a student handbook but it DOES matter when it's something that you might need to put your hands on in a hurry. If your computer crashes, you're not going to want to track down the software in the back of a filing cabinet and the backup drive from somewhere in the bowels of your desk. If you lock your keys in your car you are not going to want to figure out if your spare is in a junk drawer or the old purse where you keep semi-important stuff or the tin on your desk that has buttons and pins and headphone covers. Just put it in the Backpack of Important Shit and when you need it you know where to look.

So anyway, if you are a person who is a minor disaster who has trouble finding important things when you need them please don't think that you have to get your life together and have a nice organized filing cabinet or clear plastic bins full of documents or a neatly divided storage closet where everything from board games to backup drives has its own neatly labeled place. Just assign ONE LOCATION for important shit and start putting the important shit there. It doesn't matter if you have a filing cabinet where you keep old copies of homework and printouts of online orders and family history records - you do not need to keep everything that is file-able in one place and depending on what level of catastrophe you are it might be detrimental to you if you try to do that. It doesn't matter if you have a jewelry box where you keep your collection of gauges and wrist cuffs; if you are going to stress out about where grandma's ring is when you're digging through your collection of cheap earrings and silver pendants then *do not keep grandma's ring or any other Important, Vital, Cannot Be Lost jewelry in with your day-to-day wear*.

I live someplace that has fires. My binder got upgraded to my Backpack of Important Shit when the fires were getting uncomfortably close to the house I was living in and I wanted to have one bag to grab if we had to get out fast. Once I did that, I never took the binder out of the backpack and the backpack has now made three moves with me and has meant that I've had my birth certificate handy when I needed it in the middle of a move between two states, I was able to provide a history of my cholesterol panel going back six years to a visiting nurse, and I was able to give the exact names and contact info of my spouse's previous surgeon to the hospital when I had unexpectedly moved to a new state with three bags and my work computer at the beginning of the pandemic.

Get yourself a backpack of important shit and a folder of where the fuck did i put that paper. It is so much easier to search a backpack for important shit than to go through an entire house and it is so much easier to flip through a binder than it is to dig through a filing cabinet.

Anyway good luck and happy adulting.

[ms-demeanor]

Criteria for determining what is important shit:

Was the document difficult to get? Birth certificates, death certificates, deeds, pink slips for cars, etc. Falls into this category. If you had to spend more than an hour getting the document and if you would have to make at least one phone call to replace it, it is an important document.

Was the paper difficult to generate? If you had to sit down and fuck around with a program and look at three other sheets of paper to make the document, keep a copy of the document you generated. This might be a tax return, this might be a college financial aid application, this might be an application for a home loan.

Does it have an account number on it? You do not need to keep EVERY piece of paper with an account number on it, but it is a good idea to keep at least one piece of paper with an account number for accounts that send you paper. You should have one copy of a bank statement or a credit card statement or a life insurance policy number or your retirement savings number. A good way to determine what you should have is by asking "how many steps would I need to take to get this number if I was talking to someone on the phone about it." Maybe I don't need to keep a bank statement because it would be very easy for me to get a copy of my account number, but it would be difficult for me to track down my life insurance policy number online so a copy goes in the folder.

Does the paper represent a legally binding agreement? This means is it a lease agreement, an insurance policy, a financing agreement? The whole document goes in the folder because you want a place where you can reference the agreement in case you need to file a claim or something like that.

Is the paper current? It is good for me to have a record of my dog's rabies vaccines, but I do not need to keep a copy of every vaccine she has ever had in her life; I can discard old copies. It is good for me to have a copy of the insurance for my current car. I do not need a copy of the insurance for a car I no longer own.

What would happen if someone asked for this document and I didn't have it? If a mechanic asked you for a copy of a receipt for a repair done at a different shop five years ago and you didn't have it, you would likely not have any problems. If you were asked to produce a copy of your birth certificate in order to get a marriage license and you didn't have the document, there would be problems.

Keeping paperwork is not a matter of sparking joy, it is a matter of covering ass. If you had to move to a new state on the other side of the country and establish yourself there for everything from getting an ID to requesting a pet license to applying for a loan or opening a bank account to proving your income history to a landlord, would you have the documents you needed to get it done? If you have those documents, they go in the folder.

[yvanspijk]

Sometimes, words were saved from death because they were borrowed. The descendants of Proto-Germanic *uzgōlīn (pride) became extinct in Germanic, but borrowings live on in Romance: e.g. French orgueil and Italian orgoglio. Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (conflict) was even brought back to Germanic thanks to Old French borrowing haste.

[ultrafacts]

[jeanjauthor]

Listen.

If you are ever flung back in time, reincarnated, step through a portal into another world, or in any other way turned into an isekai protagonist...and you want to know what a centimeter is...

If there are honey bees (presuming they are honeybee-sized, and not like gargantuan monster bees), start constructing bee frame boxes.  Make the gaps progressively, incrementally, minisculely larger and larger.  You will find some of them get glued together, usually in the too small and the too large category areas.

You will also find some of them that are not.  In the range of the smallest to the largest that are not, you will find your 6mm to 9mm range.  

Measure it all carefully.  Divide it up appropriately, with the smallest gap getting 6 portions, the largest getting 9, and compare those portion sizes to each other.  Once you are certain that the 6mm is 2/3rds the size of the 9mm, add 1 more mm to the 9mm gap, and that is your centimeter.

With the centimeter established, you can now establish a meter (100 centimeters).

Once you have established a meter, you can establish time itself.  Make a pendulum that is 99.4cm from its pivote point at the top to the bottom of its weight (any weight, so long as it holds the string straight).  The unique property of gravity on Earth (or an Earth-like world) is that it takes exactly 1 second at this length for a pendulum to swing from side to side.

You now have established a way to calculate time.

Once you have established a centimeter and a meter, you can establish metric volumes (a cubic cc or cc = 1 ml, and 1000 of those gets you a liter, which is very close to 1 quart for measuring (if you absolutely need imperial measuring standards for cooking:  1 quart = 4 cups, 4 tablespoons to 1/4 cup, ao 16 to a cup and 64 to a quart), 3 teaspoons to 1 T, etc)  1 cubic centimeter of water at room temperature (65F-75F ish) at or near sea level weighs 1 gram.  1 cubic liter of water at the same temperature range & elevation weighs 1 kilogram.

Neat, huh?  So!  Now you have a consistent way to measure length, weight, volume, and time, and you may now re-create whatever science you may need in your new environment with a standardized system of measurements in a very easy to calculate base-10 system.

All thanks to the honey bee.

Sweet!

[whetstonefires]

You know what I realize that people underestimate with Pride & Prejudice is the strategic importance of Jane.

Because like, I recently saw Charlotte and Elizabeth contrasted as the former being pragmatic and the latter holding out for a love match, because she's younger and prettier and thinks she can afford it, and that is very much not what's happening.

The Charlotte take is correct, but the Elizabeth is all wrong. Lizzie doesn't insist on a love match. That's serendipitous and rather unexpected. She wants, exactly as Mr. Bennet says, someone she can respect. Contempt won't do. Mr. Bennet puts it in weirdly sexist terms like he's trying to avoid acknowledging what he did to himself by marrying a self-absorbed idiot, but it's still true. That's what Elizabeth is shooting for: a marriage that won't make her unhappy.

She's grown up watching how miserable her parents make one another; she's not willing to sign up for a lifetime of being bitter and lonely in her own home.

I think she is very aware, in refusing Mr. Collins, that it's reasonably unlikely that anyone she actually respects is going to want her, with her few accomplishments and her lack of property. That she is turning down security and the chance keep the house she grew up in, and all she gets in return may be spinsterhood.

But, crucially, she has absolute faith in Jane.

The bit about teaching Jane's daughters to embroider badly? That's a joke, but it's also a serious potential life plan. Jane is the best creature in the world, and a beauty; there's no chance at all she won't get married to someone worthwhile.

(Bingley mucks this up by breaking Jane's heart, but her prospects remain reasonable if their mother would lay off!)

And if Elizabeth can't replicate that feat, then there's also no doubt in her mind that Jane will let her live in her house as a dependent as long as she likes, and never let it be made shameful or awful to be that impoverished spinster aunt. It will be okay never to be married at all, because she has her sister, whom she trusts absolutely to succeed and to protect her.

And if something eventually happens to Jane's family and they can't keep her anymore, she can throw herself upon the mercy of the Gardeners, who have money and like her very much, and are likewise good people. She has a support network--not a perfect or impregnable one, but it exists. It gives her realistic options.

Spinsterhood was a very dangerous choice; there are reasons you would go to considerable lengths not to risk it.

But Elizabeth has Jane, and her pride, and an understanding of what marrying someone who will make you miserable costs.

That's part of the thesis of the book, I would say! Recurring Austen thought. How important it is not to marry someone who will make you, specifically, unhappy.

She would rather be a dependent of people she likes and trusts than of someone she doesn't, even if the latter is formally considered more secure; she would rather live in a happy, reasonable household as an extra than be the mistress of her own home, but that home is full of Mr. Collins and her mother.

This is a calculation she's making consciously! She's not counting on a better marriage coming along. She just feels the most likely bad outcome from refusing Mr. Collins is still much better than the certain outcome of accepting him. Which is being stuck with Mr. Collins forever.

Elizabeth is also being pragmatic. Austen also endorses her choice, for the person she is and the concerns she has. She's just picking different trade-offs than Charlotte.

Elizabeth's flaw is not in her own priorities; she doesn't make a reckless choice and get lucky. But in being unable to accept that Charlotte's are different, and it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Charlotte.

Because realistically, when your marriage is your whole family and career forever, and you only get to pick the ones that offer themselves to you, when you are legally bound to the status of dependent, you're always going to be making some trade-offs.

😂 Even the unrealistically ideal dream scenario of wealthy handsome clever ethical Mr. Darcy still asks you to undergo personal growth, accommodate someone else's communication style, and eat a little crow.

[kiralamouse]

I love the additional points in the tags: #charlotte is a much less sociable person than lizzie#so avoiding her husband most of the time and not seeking out his company is more viable for her!#she also has more patience for people being wrong#partly i think because she kinds checks out and lets them get on with it which lizzie isn't too great at even with her mother#people have different needs like that's a thing okay#marriage#spinsterhood#pragmatism#like if elizabeth had to listen to collins talk for a few months straight she would be nearly insane with rage#he's not just a low-quality man he's a man designed to be the worst for her specifically#also note that because jane's marriage is elizabeth's fallback plan#darcy screwed her over personally by interfering between her and bingley#she ofc does not bring this up how could she#but it's intensifying the anger during the hunsford rejection i think

I hadn’t even thought about Jane being Lizzie’s fallback as an amplification to the anger at Darcy, but yes! I’m sure that “the happiness of a most beloved sister” is indeed foremost in her concerns on that - easily the most important thing - but I bet some subconscious anxiety is aggravating Lizzie’s anger here.

[glumshoe]

how can you tell if a rabbit possesses the gift of prophecy or not

[glumshoe]

I want to win Best of Show at a 4H competition for prognosticating rabbits

[heywetotheotherworld]

Oh, good luck! The issue isn't actually whether they can tell the future-- all rabbits are clairvoyant to a certain degree. What you want to breed for is precision as well as clarity.

The current 4H show trials involve getting the rabbits to predict the outcome of a horse race (via nibbling alfalfa out of a cup with a picture of the winning horse on it). Many rabbits can predict the horses that will run well over the course of the racing season, but you want to breed for a rabbit that can predict a specific race in the immediate future. So, it's all about narrowing that window of vision.

That said, this is obviously the strategy for show rabbits. If you're aiming for the rabbit equivalent of the kwisatz haderach, you don't want to narrow that window of prognostication at all.

[glumshoe]

My chief concern is that heritable rabbit clairvoyance seems to be negatively correlated with vitality. Rabbits that are heterozygous for the prognostication gene (Pp) tend to be moderately clairvoyant but feeble and small in size, prone to anxiety and stress—their visions are vague and symbolic. Rabbits that are homozygous for prognostication (pp) tend to have visions that are both more accurate and more precise, but also display a failure to thrive; even when they do survive to sexual maturity, they are almost always infertile.

Which begs the question: is it animal cruelty to attempt breed prognostication into rabbits, if it reduces their quality of life so dramatically? I know some animal rights groups are lobbying to have clairvoyant rabbits barred from show. I doubt they will succeed since there is so much financial incentive to be made off breeding for clear, precise, and accurate rabbit prognostication... but I think we have to consider the ethical implications even if it remains legal.

One interesting study I read recently showed that rabbits bred to prophesize only in abstract concepts tend to be more healthy and hale than those trained on naturalistic variables like horse racing and weather patterns. The conclusion was that rabbits experience the most psychological distress when they understand the nature and content of their visions, but are nearly unaffected when the content has no meaning to them—suggesting a potential application in the stock market.

[heywetotheotherworld]

Reblogging especially for the deep dive into the ethics of breeding prophetic rabbits for show. It's an important issue that I don't see enough folks talking about. I wasn't aware of the vitality issue, and this post reminded me to get current with the science.

I think my main concern with the study you mention above-- if I'm thinking about the right one (A Sense of Impending Doom: Semiotic Stress Syndrome and Prognostication in Domesticated Rabbit Populations?) is that it was, like so many studies in this area, funded by an investment firm. I feel it's not unreasonable to suggest that they might have ulterior motives in encouraging breeders to focus their efforts on refining rabbit lines that foresee exclusively abstract concepts.

That isn't to say that more precise prognostication isn't stressful for rabbits; I'm just doubtful of the validity of the claim that abstraction is somehow better for them.

[glumshoe]

That is the study... I had no idea who funded it! Now that you mention it, I absolutely can see the ulterior motive in promoting the idea that rabbits can/should only be used for abstract prophecy. You don’t actually need a rabbit to issue clear or accurate prophecies about something like the stock market—you just need people to believe that it can, “leak” those supposed prophecies, and voila! they fulfill themselves.

I have also read that wild rabbits tend to produce only one prophet per warren, regardless of population size. Does that produced one likely pp kit were actually observed culling extraneous pp kits in the same and subsequent litters. You would think that having multiple prophets in a warren would be beneficial, but I guess rabbits have never read The Minority Report.

[heywetotheotherworld]

Absolutely, thank you for mentioning that! It's my hope that future studies of pp kits in the wild will expand to look at them in situ, in the context of their Warrens of Origin (WoO) and to consider the warren as a whole as a meta-organism, much as we already do with other eusocial animals, such as bees, wasps, or micro camels. I'm not necessarily suggesting that propheted warrens are unequivocally eusocial-- I suspect we may ultimately find that what's going on with does who birth pp kits is something closer to quorum sensing than true eusociality-- but I think that discounting the role of the WoO in the development of pp kits is simply reductive. Something to look forward to in future research!

[glumshoe]

Absolutely. AFAIK they still don’t have an answer as to why some warrens never naturally produce prophets while others produce them consistently. If it’s a caste in a eusocial metaorganism, why is it present in some but absent in others, seemingly unrelated to the wellbeing of the warren? They did some studies back in the 70′s (headed by Dr. Nadia Ardavan, i believe) to see if they could force spontaneous prophets by engineering catastrophes, but imperiled warrens performed no differently at producing pp kits than control groups. It precognition an evolutionary holdover or an emergent adaptation?

[enjoymorestuff]

Is there some way you can use the rabbits' prophetic abilities to predict upcoming prophets?

[evilbunnyalliance]

The Evil Bunny Alliance has been tracking this research for decades; it’s nice to see more work being done in this field.

[mamapluto]

Hi, I'm much more of a layperson when it comes to the subject. My gran was a bit of a hobbyist, so I only know what she told me before she passed. If I'm totally off base here, please let me know! But it seems that the issue might not be the actual question of clarity--it's about the stress caused. Rather than focusing on how to strengthen or alter the prediction genes, why not focus instead on breeding for temperament? If it's actually the stress causing the quality of life/length of life issue, wouldn't breeding back in some more resilient/less anxious traits solve the issue? Kinda like what they're trying to do with retro-mops and pugs?

Like I said, I'm more familiar with just the actual hands on stuff, so I could be wildly wrong here. It's not like a spider ball python defective gene thing, right?

[glumshoe]

I think part of it is that precognition itself is inherently stressful. What is foreknowledge if not perpetual doomscrolling inside one’s own mind? A prophet is basically just someone with an anxiety disorder whose intrusive thoughts happen to be right. That kind of stress can stunt growth and result in a failure to thrive even if it’s not strictly genetic.

Your idea of breeding for temperament holds some water, though. It’s sort of a fringe movement, but some people are actually focusing on breeding lines of totally apathetic and indifferent rabbits. The theory is that the stress of precognition arises from the rabbit’s emotional reaction to threats of peril. A rabbit with no concern for itself or for the well-being of other rabbits might be able to get more mileage out of precognitive abilities. A rabbit with mild antisocial tendencies might be even more efficient—there are, of course, certain practical reasons why sadism is an undesirable trait to breed into rabbits, since we still do want them to tolerate each other for the purposes of mating and kit-raising.

Another option is to attempt to trammel the precognitive trait so that it can only generate positive or neutral prophecies. By making precognition a joyful experience, rabbits capable of it are more likely to thrive—however, this imposes obvious and potentially destructive limitations upon its usefulness to humans; one cannot avoid danger by closing the eye that sees it.

[ponymama]

Hey, @Glumshoe ? You’re too old for 4H. Cut off is 19.

[glumshoe]

Me, sneaking my prognosticating rabbits into the 4-H barn:

[creekfiend]

@tsrabbits

[whoapprovedthis]

i thought y’all were talking abt a fantasy world for a book or something, i am Concerned

[whoapprovedthis]

i’m not pretending one of us didn’t say that, i just have no memory as soon as it happens

[bnmxfld]

“I was too young to know how to love her.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / The Little Prince

[whoapprovedthis]

had to sift through my old french work to find the french version...the last line of chapter eight. this book will forever make me cry for various reasons

[whoapprovedthis]

at this point i can’t tell if the chronic headaches are from an illness or if theyre happening because i think of a headache everyday and subsequently get one