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[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

why would any advanced race expend resources to come visit a type 0 "civilization" of malevolent primates torturing and manipulating one another

Idk ask Jane Goodall. People do it, why wouldn't "space people?"

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

chimps don't have nuclear weapons or VX.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Neither do I.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

What's VX, precious?

[-] Shapillon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

A synthetic neurotoxin

[-] NMBA@mstdn.ca -1 points 2 years ago

@ArcaneSlime @AllonzeeLV
Gorillas (and bonobos) are gentle, quite unlike humans. Baboons are a better analogue.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Fair but idk the name of the lady who studied baboons so Jane Goodall it is.

[-] NMBA@mstdn.ca 0 points 2 years ago

@ArcaneSlime
Fair reply lol, nobody knows

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