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Re:Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of t... by kjkjadksj on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:23PM (#47576315)
Apartment is no good for a cat but suddenly fine for you? It isn’t like it is in human nature to live in a shoebox either. Human nature is to live in the sahel, sleep under the stars, forage, and track game. The office and the apartment is genuinely a prison for the human in their evolved element.
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Re:Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of t... by justonceokay on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:28PM (#47576373)
Yes but I can leave whenever I want.
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Re:Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of t... by kjkjadksj on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:29PM (#47576386)
Can you? Leave in the middle of every work meeting next month and see what happens.
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Re:Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of t... by justonceokay on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:32PM (#47576435)
You are not arguing in good faith. A work meeting is a commitment I made of my own volition and is only possible because I /can/ leave my apartment.

I’ll throw it back at you, maybe if you left that meeting you would find that it had less consequences than you are imagining.

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Re:Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of t... by kjkjadksj on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:34PM (#47576466)
The only one who is arguing in bad faith are the ones equating a cat chilling in an apartment to some form of slavery.
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Re:Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of t... by nandomrumber on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @12:05AM (#47582623)
How do you go sleeping under the stars when it’s below zero, blowing its guts out, and snowing.
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Re:Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of t... by kjkjadksj on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:23PM (#47602977)
Look at how much hair is on your skin, you aren’t meant for that. You are meant to persistent hunt game and forage in fairer weather. You are optimized for that. Everything else is compromised, swimming uphill only bailed out by happenstance technological affordance.
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Re:Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of t... by nandomrumber on Thursday April 02, 2026 @04:54AM (#47611763)
What, so ants, bees, wasps… they’re allowed to built shelter from the elements.

But when humans do it’s unnatural?

And besides, if you saw how hairy I am you’d probably reconsidered your opinion.

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