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[ex_sorted385]

I am thankful for thumbs.


Because without thumbs, we would be dolphins.


Land dolphins.


[ooc: cursed, obviously.]

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[just_displaced]

This makes me extremely uncomfortable and I can't exactly pinpoint why.

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[ex_sorted385]

Are you afraid of dolphins?

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[just_displaced]

Not specifically. Not more than I'm afraid of anything else, at least. Of course, I'm afraid of just about everything. But it's kind of a low level fear. Not an intense fear. I'm more afraid of humans. But still, it's kind of a creepy idea.

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[dragonofalthena]

How so?

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[ex_sorted385]

Humans are the worst. But dolphins are good at human things too. Like murder and being bullies. Do you think they're cannibals too?

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[ex_sorted385]

Because we don't have fins? And dolphins do. Instead of thumbs.

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[just_displaced]

Probably. Do dolphins commit genocide? Do dolphins start wars and use weapons? Because if so, dolphins are pretty awful. And I may have to reconsider ever wanting to go swimming.

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[ex_sorted385]

Well they kill porpoises. But no weapons because they don't have thumbs like us. That's why we win at killing.

Maybe thumbs aren't so great.

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[just_displaced]

Why do they kill porpoises? Is it some kind of bizarre racial or ethnic thing? Do they have a reason, or do they just do it for fun? And winning at killing is the worst kind of winning possible. That's just sad.

[affectioning]

Woah.

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[dragonofalthena]

So you're a water mammal?

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[ex_sorted385]

Competition for resources I guess. And fun. Same as people. Well fear too. Sometimes people kill from fear.

Dolphins are kind of bullies. Thumbless bullies.

[ex_sorted385]

I know. Evolution is funny.

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[just_displaced]

I guess sometimes people kill from fear. But mostly, I think, if it's killing on a mass level, they're killing for a power play. Dolphins probably do that, too.

[affectioning]

Have you ever seen a live dolphin?

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[ex_sorted385]

No a land mammal. Dolphins are water mammals.

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[dragonofalthena]

Then you wouldn't be a dolphin.

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[ex_sorted385]

People and dolphins are kind of jerks.

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[just_displaced]

... what if dolphins joined the military.

[ex_sorted385]

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[ex_sorted385]

I know. Because of the thumbs.

[affectioning]

Where's Osaka?

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[dragonofalthena]

Okay.

Why would it be bad to be one?

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[ex_sorted385]

Oh I think they use them in the Navy now.

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[just_displaced]

Okay I'm going to ask you a very serious question and there's a specific answer I'm desperately hoping for but not sure I'm going to get. What year did you say you were from again? Because that qualifies what you mean by "now" and if you mean "now" as in when I'm from I'm not okay with that, man.