It seems that as a species develops more emphasis on brains, it also produces more assholes.
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@ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr @alice the scrub jays are one meeting in a smoky room away from starting a protection racket in my neighborhood
@ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr @alice "it would be a shame if any of those acorns germinated someplace... inconvenient"
"Just take your pay for the month, Don Scrubjay"
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@tompearce49 but are they jerks or do they just have the capacity to punch things?
@alice @tompearce49 Peacock mantis shrimp are pretty widely considered deserving of their initials.
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One summer while I was wearing shorts, I had a big hornet fly over, bite into the side of my thigh and then proceed to sting me like half a dozen times for no apparent reason.
I feel like hornets, wasps, and yellow jackets are all pretty much raging assholes.
@alice strange that you had that happen with a hornet
At least for me I encountered hornets as rather chill and very helpful to keep wasps away (they know they're the big kid on the block and don't need to proof it like their smaller cousins 
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@ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr @alice "it would be a shame if any of those acorns germinated someplace... inconvenient"
"Just take your pay for the month, Don Scrubjay"
@NickGates @ai6yr @alice
Scrubjay Mafia is my new band name. #IMNBN -
It seems that as a species develops more emphasis on brains, it also produces more assholes.
Humans? Legendary assholes.
Dolphins? Assholes.
Cats are notorious for being jerks.Dogs, ducks, geese, seagulls, crows...all have dickish individuals.
What're some species that would be least likely to solve a crossword puzzle, but still produce a significant percentage of assholes?
Like are there any shrimp out there that are just little fuckers?
@alice
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@bruce @MRutenberg @mattblaze @alice I think he meant how wasps will go out of their way to kill bees which aren’t harming or competing with them in any way.
@bob_zim @bruce @MRutenberg @mattblaze @alice
Well, bees are basically vegan, communist wasps. -
It seems that as a species develops more emphasis on brains, it also produces more assholes.
Humans? Legendary assholes.
Dolphins? Assholes.
Cats are notorious for being jerks.Dogs, ducks, geese, seagulls, crows...all have dickish individuals.
What're some species that would be least likely to solve a crossword puzzle, but still produce a significant percentage of assholes?
Like are there any shrimp out there that are just little fuckers?
@alice Budgerigar parakeets are notorious for being little jerks a lot of the time.
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@bruce @MRutenberg @mattblaze @alice I think he meant how wasps will go out of their way to kill bees which aren’t harming or competing with them in any way.
@bob_zim @MRutenberg @mattblaze @alice
Ah, right. I missed that.
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@alice Wasps are jerks. Total sociopaths.
Except for Tarantula Hawks, which allegedly have the most painful sting of any wasp, however ironically. The reason why they occasionally act not-sober is because they occasionally consume was-sugar-then-fermented things. They will literally hit you on the way by because they didn't see you, and become stunned momentarily, and then snap out of it and just continue on their way while ignoring you. Remember that that thing could ruin your day if it really wanted to. If you manage to catch it and trap it against your skin, it might. Otherwise, they simply do not care. More people need to be more like Tarantula Hawks.
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@alice Horses are smart but can be dickheads.
@IanAMartin @alice I'm told that steers can be dicks when they get enough calories.
Feed 'em grass, or let them graze, and they are typically low in calories and chill except when threatened. Feed them grain, and they get a lot more spicy.
My coworker used to raise 2 or 3 steers every year for meat. He said the last few weeks before slaughter when he switched them to all-grain diet was his least favorite time of year.
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@alice What about crows and ravens? Are they assholes on purpose or just annoying to humans?
@roknrol as someone who has a lot of crow acquaintances, some are serious dicks.
There's one my girlfriend and I dubbed "Notch" on account of him missing a couple feathers on either side. He knows we feed all the crows on our walk, but if we're not fast enough for him he'll swoop by and tag my head with the tip of his wing—sometimes two or three times like "where're the goods, kibble fairy?"
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@alice Male sea otters, if they can't find any female otters to rape, will rape baby harbour seals to death.
Yes, otters are quite smart, but this is human, or at least dolphin, level of assholery.@rupert oh no! I didn't know that, and now otters are less cute
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@alice Horses are smart but can be dickheads.
@IanAMartin @alice I have always found that horses aren’t intelligent at all. Their owners are the assholes, though.
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@alice Horses are smart but can be dickheads.
@IanAMartin having been bit, bucked, and stepped on several times when I lived on the farm, I can second this.
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@alice probably some species of cichlid. those fish are surprisingly complicated.
on the other hand, hermit crabs are so polite that they will line up in order of size to wait for a shell of the right size to become available and then pass an empty shell down the line.
@joshsusser @alice I hope this is true. It ought to be.
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It seems that as a species develops more emphasis on brains, it also produces more assholes.
Humans? Legendary assholes.
Dolphins? Assholes.
Cats are notorious for being jerks.Dogs, ducks, geese, seagulls, crows...all have dickish individuals.
What're some species that would be least likely to solve a crossword puzzle, but still produce a significant percentage of assholes?
Like are there any shrimp out there that are just little fuckers?
@alice yeah some shrimp can be jerks
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@alice Tarantula hawk wasps paralyse spiders, lay eggs inside them and the larvae eat their way out of the still-living spider.
Very low intelligence, extreme assholery.@rupert very dickish, but do they do it because that's just what they do, or because "fuck that spider in particular"?
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@alice Geese would probably land high on the asshole list.
@bielsubob I slapped a goose once for biting my knee while I was just sitting on a park bench eating crackers.
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@IanAMartin @alice I'm told that steers can be dicks when they get enough calories.
Feed 'em grass, or let them graze, and they are typically low in calories and chill except when threatened. Feed them grain, and they get a lot more spicy.
My coworker used to raise 2 or 3 steers every year for meat. He said the last few weeks before slaughter when he switched them to all-grain diet was his least favorite time of year.
@grumble209 TBF, probably their least favorite time of year too
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It seems that as a species develops more emphasis on brains, it also produces more assholes.
Humans? Legendary assholes.
Dolphins? Assholes.
Cats are notorious for being jerks.Dogs, ducks, geese, seagulls, crows...all have dickish individuals.
What're some species that would be least likely to solve a crossword puzzle, but still produce a significant percentage of assholes?
Like are there any shrimp out there that are just little fuckers?
@alice From the videos I've seen on youtube, mantis shrimp.
