Hi Steven, this is Clem Fandango. Can you hear me?
Hopefully no GC
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gub~gub feeling great at GMT-8, Wed 19 Jun 2024, 4:42,
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tbh
this running 'joke' was the reason it took me so long to give the show a watch. Which is a shame because overall it's pretty decent
(, Wed 19 Jun 2024, 13:12, Reply)
you could always skip the clem fandango
then turn cartwheels across the floor
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 20 Jun 2024, 5:11,
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Toast is a fully rounded character, rather than a caricature, which is why it's so good.
(, Thu 20 Jun 2024, 9:35, Reply)
I saw the pilot when they broadcast it as a one-off
and thought it was terrible, so I never bothered to watch the series. I do keep hearing how good it is though, probably get round to it one day.
/blog
(, Fri 21 Jun 2024, 11:49, Reply)
Daffy in Wackyland
Brand new Looney Tunes short is rather good actually.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Tue 18 Jun 2024, 22:05,
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Really rather good
I love when ip like this is handed to people who actually want to take risks. Seriously impressed!
(, Fri 21 Jun 2024, 17:04, Reply)
Getting rid of Aliens, including a step by step how to
a Quinn Martin production
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Is this a pea, or is everything I watch appearing on b3tans’ YouTube recommendations now?
If it’s the latter, I apologise for nothing.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 19 Jun 2024, 0:09,
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Is it is it cake?
I made this!
You are watching Is It Cake on the TV, but what you see leads you to question everything about life.
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crab_bloke), Tue 18 Jun 2024, 17:17,
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My name is Antoninus
and I eat both snails AND oysters
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gub~gub feeling great at GMT-8, Wed 19 Jun 2024, 4:44,
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Is that like a Pi chart?
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 19 Jun 2024, 8:44,
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That depends,
Is she sponging off the state, her parents, or the fame of her footballer husband?
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 19 Jun 2024, 11:06,
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This is a new definition of "trio" I wasn't aware of.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 18 Jun 2024, 17:01,
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Ain't no party like a lemon party
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unclepills Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think., Wed 19 Jun 2024, 19:08,
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they must have a decent union
this guy had to do it on his own
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2gyxeXW_2T8
(, Tue 18 Jun 2024, 17:42, Reply)
I have made a game about UK Politics. It is also the world's first farting ass rhythm game.
I made this!
Originally this was meant to be just a shit post with only the visuals but my mate convinced me that he could do the music and so we ended up making it for real lol.
As such this is a real game that you can play for free over on Newgrounds: www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/934162
Its a browser game so you don't have to download anything to make it run.
Theres 6 of my mate’s songs in this turned into fart symphonies which just about makes it the most high effort fart joke we’ve ever made.
(, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 22:23, Reply)
That gets full marks for silliness!
Top work - I get a feeling I'll be trying the game at some point!
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Tue 18 Jun 2024, 8:54,
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took your bloody time
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unclepills Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think., Tue 18 Jun 2024, 17:31,
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Multi task Fadge
That was a long wank you must be a husk
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Tue 18 Jun 2024, 21:25,
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I forgot to take my viagra
It was like trying to massage an oily chipolata
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Fadgebadger (1 like), Tue 18 Jun 2024, 21:27,
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Like shooting pool with a length of string
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unclepills Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think., Wed 19 Jun 2024, 19:04,
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Snap!
What do you know - another B3tan releasing an election-related musical game, on newgrounds too! Nice work :D
(, Fri 21 Jun 2024, 18:25, Reply)
Forrest Gump fights The Fonz while Mr Miyagi watches
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 19:07,
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Scrape of all the itch.io games from the newsletters
I recently got let go from my job and have been making responsible use of my time, by writing a script to scrape all the itch.io game links from the newsletter archive.
I often read the newsletters on my phone and can't always play the linked games if they're desktop only. So I thought I'd grab all the past ones and add them to a collection so I can make more responsible use of my time.
(, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 14:58, Reply)
Nice work!
I still love Tim Vine's Pen Behind the Ear.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 15:28,
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Kate Bush sings the Rentaghost theme
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 8:23,
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Yah. Just a fracture this time.
Getting by without having to take any of the opioids they gave me…
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 14:21,
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Its clearly marked on the tube of you
So there is that.
Its still awful.
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TBL I posted this on, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 13:37,
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Or could we have mods following a set of rules that include no AI?
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 16:04,
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Does such a rule exist?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 16:55,
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On the front page:
"Is is ok to post AI images on the board? - That shit is too low effort for even us. We're not saying you can't ever get some AI help around the edges, but if your work is just typing something into an AI gen and posting it, then no thank you.
posted by God on 12th May at 9am"
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 17:47,
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This is a link to a video though, not an AI image
Nor is the poster claiming authorship.
So…
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 18 Jun 2024, 9:06,
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I love AI and can't wait to see the glorious future it produces
*dies*
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Fadgebadger (1 like), Tue 18 Jun 2024, 21:28,
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i've rewatched quite a few rentaghost episodes recently
quite enjoyed them
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MiseryCunt i simply must wipe my arse on a teddy bear, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 20:28,
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Back then that was
start of the decline due to canned laughter, bad edits and generally all things American that seeped into out Saturday night telly. Now we have dogs winning talent contests.
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TBL I posted this on, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 13:36,
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Britain's Happiest Hound? Britain's Canniest Canine?
Great British Bark Off?
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Strictly Bollock Licking
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 15:37,
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Well it's better than the sequel trilogy.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 18:55,
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Was this greenlit before or after the Holiday Special?
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 19:01,
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Good question.
Apparently this was broadcast in 1977, the Holiday Special was broadcast in 1978.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 21:08,
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Then they knew exactly what they were doing.
My god.
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Fri 21 Jun 2024, 13:32,
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That is great
It's going into my 'tunes I mix with' right now...
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 12:32,
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stopthetories.vote is fully up and running now. No registration needed.
Check the site to see which candidate is best placed to beat your local torag.
If you’re not registered to vote you only have until midnight on Tuesday to do it!
www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
Any students reading should think about whether they should vote at home or where they live during term time. Remember, you may be be able to register to vote in two places but you can only vote in one. University constituencies tend not to favour the Tories so think about casting your vote in the place it will have most impact.
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/who-can-vote/students
Remember to bring photo ID when you vote!
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/voter-id/accepted-forms-photo-id
I am not affiliated with stopthetories.vote in any way and being in a very safe Labour constituency I don’t even need to use the site, I just want to see the buggers gone.
Right now we still have a two-party system, but if the Tories lose hard enough we may be about to see one of them be replaced. That hasn’t happened in a century.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 16 Jun 2024, 23:31,
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At least three of the
people endorsing that make me want to vote Tory out of spite.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 9:02,
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Vorderman? The one who's constantly on telly trying to swindle pensioners is against the Tories?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 10:29,
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Not Carol, simply because I like the classic Countdown years.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 12:26,
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Pffft
Who was it who made the joke about lots of pensioners and ill people watching a show called Countdown.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 17 Jun 2024, 13:07,
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Frankie Boyle I think
also, I always had a crush on her and even with the new plastic tits she still has something, so yeah... Would.
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TBL I posted this on, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 22:18,
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supertan on there was funny, she's a moron
also cynical about Vorderman, she'd vote for different Tories
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custard, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 11:33,
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A lot of people would, and a lot of people did. Remember this bad batch of tories is the worst ever.
That Tanski lady is clearly unwell. I agree with her politics, mostly, but she's ...clearly unwell.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 19:14,
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Anyone who does influencer politics on "X" is going to go nuts.
Swimming in that pool really does not seem worth the Patreon money.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 18 Jun 2024, 9:37,
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that's always the risk when you go for a celebrity endorsement heavy approach as they have
especially the weird mix of d-listers and fucking mick hucknall.
One thing Australia got right was preferential voting, so if your preferred candidate polls lowly your vote is transferred to your second preference, and so on. You can number all the candidates in preference if you want. They tally all the votes and the candidate that got the least is knocked out and they redistribute the preferences of the people who voted for them to their next preference, assuming that person isn't knocked out already. You keep going until there is two left.
In practice it means you can give your vote (first preference) to your favourite candidate without worrying you're wasting your vote on a long shot and letting somebody you hate get in because of it. I'm surprised more countries havent adopted it instead of first-past-the-post
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 18 Jun 2024, 0:06,
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I'll just have to decide by myself.
Sorry, we can't make a recommendation here yet.
It's not clear which progressive party is best placed to beat the Tories.
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Cactus 1 doesn't care what you think on, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 13:35,
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Just a guess:
You might be in one of the new constituencies.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 21:46,
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That site is suggesting I vote Labour... urgh.
Saj Ahmad specifically... a candidate who is playing the victim card for votes and who cannot even accept a friendly handshake without complaining... part of me would rather vote to keep Jenrick in over her, at least he spent 20 mins stuck on our doorstep having his ears chewed by the missus.
I like many others want to turn the system on it's head... so vote for your local independent representative(s) because that will be fun, or don't...
(, Wed 26 Jun 2024, 9:11, Reply)
Joined it just in time to see Saruman
cosplaying as bird person.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 16 Jun 2024, 21:52,
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I got Moff Tarkin being a super evolved hyper intelligent alien species
While his wife fancied Koenig
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simbosan Hello you cunt, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 4:49,
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wish mystery science theater 3000 did these
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MiseryCunt i simply must wipe my arse on a teddy bear, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 20:30,
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We've all done it, right?
"She accepts that the carrot was perhaps a step too far"
Great URL, by the way
**EDIT** Whoops - I fell for it. Still like it though.
(, Sun 16 Jun 2024, 16:39, Reply)
Not sure this is a real newspaper.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 16 Jun 2024, 17:46,
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A quick glance at the other stories is enough.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 16 Jun 2024, 18:26,
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Unfortunately for her,
the motorist was the wife of local vicar, the Rev Evan Elpuss
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robh, Sun 16 Jun 2024, 18:31,
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Falling for it might be a sign of age. The algorithim just offered up a 'UK adverts nostalgia compilation' that from the thumbnail includes certain animated flat cap wearing kittens.
I thought the nostalgia stuff usually involved a compilation of Dame Vera Lynn and Glenn Miller or a selection of 50 hits of the Fifties (not available in any record shop).
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Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 10:46,
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Are animals conscious?
Yes. Obviously.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sun 16 Jun 2024, 15:50,
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I have to wonder at scientists like this
Are they trolling?
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simbosan Hello you cunt, Sun 16 Jun 2024, 20:40,
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There really is a widespread cultural belief that animals don't feel pain or emotion like we do.
I can understand hunters, farmers, abattoir workers and animal experimentalists perpetuating the myth. I can even understand meat-eaters who want to think they are living an ethical life wishing it were true.
But anyone paying the slightest attention to animal behaviour must know it's bollocks. The concept of anthropomorphic projection relies on the same chauvinism. I find it weird that this orthodoxy persists in science. Darwin was so obviously right in the first place. Pleasure and pain are obviously related to the accepted notion of survival instinct. Animals can clearly enjoy themselves and can clearly suffer. I don't know what tests need to be done to confirm what is so fucking obvious!
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sun 16 Jun 2024, 21:59,
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Absolutely
It's exactly what Darwin fought against. The idea that we are not on a continuum with all other life
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simbosan Hello you cunt, Sun 16 Jun 2024, 22:51,
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We are however the only animals smart enough to ask the question.
Does a wasp care about the caterpillar it’s eating alive? Do orcas play with seals because deep down they’re sadistic bastards? When it comes to brb’s point about food animals I would gently say that humans are one of very few predators that try to kill what we eat as quickly as possible and the others that do only do so to stop their food running away.
On a less flippant note, how does an animal feel full when it has nothing to feel with? It reminded me of Charles Stross’s Accellerando where one of the characters rants that lobsters only need 14 neurons to manage their digestive system and they have business being so uncomplicated. I’d put the quote up but searching on a Kindle is all kinds of broken.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 16 Jun 2024, 23:59,
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Or we're the only species dumb enough to ask the question.
I think you're conflating morality and consciousness. It makes sense to me that carnivores should evolve to find pleasure in killing. A carnivore that naturally despises hunting is going to have a depressing time before it goes extinct.
I am sure that all social animals have culture, and that each culture contains some kind of morality/proto-morality, and I am sure that all animals have natural instincts defining behaviours that are the basis of moralities.
Your third question seems to negate itself because the article explains how the brainless animal feels using its nervous system.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 1:03,
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I don't think it's that simple.
Just on a basic comparison of senses they perceive the world in different ways and you can't give a whale a personality test.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 17 Jun 2024, 1:15,
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I do. Other animals absolutely don't experience pain and emotions the way we do.
That's not to suggest they don't experience either at all, though. Stick a needle in a mouse and it's pretty obvious that it felt pain and will run away from you in the future. Come home from work feeling sad and your four legged friend might well pick up on it and try to comfort you. To make a somewhat extreme counter-argument, however, when was the last time you heard of an animal jumping off a cliff out of sheer despair? Obviously you can't ask it how it was feeling first (or after) but wouldn't you agree that suicide was a uniquely human thing?
Consciousness though? Fuck knows, ask two scientists to define it and you'll get three different answers. If you can't agree on that the question "are animals conscious" is meaningless. If you asked me I'd say they generally aren't, because I'd think you were asking if animals were self-aware and while some do show signs of theory of mind most don't.
There's definitely a continuum of... something... and humans are at the far end, but there are a few other species out there that are pretty damned close. Just teach a gorilla sign language and ask her.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 2:30,
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Yes there is a continuum.
I guess part of the difficulty is we are looking at it from our way of perceiving, some of the more intelligent creatures (like octopuses) may have a radically different model of reality and thought.
As for the suicide question, I see that as more of a learned helplessness and giving up, rather than animals actively killing themselves.
I suspect the question of consciousness is so difficult and bound up with our projections and expectations as to be unanswerable.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 17 Jun 2024, 12:07,
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Given that, apparently, communications between humans whose IQ's differ by more than about two standard deviations can be difficult, is it any wonder that empathising with other creatures might be a a tad problematic?
TLDR: I can't fucking stand dealing with retards.
(, Wed 19 Jun 2024, 10:12, Reply)
"Other animals absolutely don't experience pain and emotions the way we do."
Prove it.
I can accept the idea that animals with completely different hormones to us may feel differently, but if it's the same biology doing the same chemistry then it's obviously the same.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 17 Jun 2024, 16:02,
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but you went and did it anyway
Have a click for chutzpah
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simbosan Hello you cunt, Sun 16 Jun 2024, 13:55,
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Links had been floofless lately
This little chap is a character
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simbosan Hello you cunt, Sun 16 Jun 2024, 0:31,
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Birbs are mental
even by my standards.
CAC - Railway diorama edition
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7wEOkT9-AeQ
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 16 Jun 2024, 1:37,
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