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fossilesque @mander.xyz

7mo ago

Sloths 🦥

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Basically a badgermole from Avatar, the last airbender
- Exactly my thought lol
- lol this is immediately what I thought of haha
- I don't remember this image being from ATLA, is it perhaps from TLOK
  
  It was during ATLA, they helped evacuate earth kingdom citizens when the fire nation took over the kingdom.
  
  1000% atla. Secret tunnel episode. Maybe the best episode?
  
  I think so, looks like Prince Wu up to the right there.

🎵 Two lovers forbidden from one another 🎵
- 🎵 A war divides their people 🎵
  
  🎵 And a mountain divides them apart, build a path to be together 🎵

Secret Tunnel 🎶
- Through the mountains 🎵
  
  Bring the Cheetos 🎵

If they still existed they would probably have moved into existing human-mined tunnels. Whether they'd wait until we abandoned them or chase us out, or help us build them, would depend on our relationship with them
- What if we domesticated them and used them to mine coal?
- "A train derailed in the tunnel due to a giant sloth sleeping on the tracks. No word of survivors at the time of recording, but officials say that they are expecting multiple fatalities including the sloth."
- that sounds like the plot of Ring of Fire

The tiny thumbnail for this looked like a belly button on my phone, had no idea what I was tapping on at first
- A(lmost)NSFW
- The fun part is that you were more curious than apprehensive and were willing to subject yourself to whatever the Internet brought you for the day.

Big enough to be comfortably used by humans
Pffffbtbtbt, housing crisis schmousing crisis. There's your answer, chaps.
- Just wait until some oil baron says that sloth-dug tunnels is the way to "deal" with climate change.
  
  If they are willing to bring back giant burrowing sloths, I am willing to experience the "tunnel hovels to escape climate change" timeline so long as I get to be a sloth supervisor.
- Coober Peby Australia has you covered!

So my take from this is, the higher above ground level a sloth is, the lazier it gets.

I heard if you turn out the lights and kiss your crush, you can find a way out of the tunnel.
- Teacher says, every time a bell rings, a secret tunnel collapses on two lovers.

I may not be remembering correctly, but didn't Sloth dig the tunnel in Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood?
Edit: had to look it up. He did. Probably a coincidence

I'm having a hard time not seeing a belly button.

And what happened to the giant sloths?
- Earth warms up from ice age. Big sloth too fuzzy. Loses fuzz and tries to climb tree. Big sloth too big. Small big sloth gets smaller, climbs tree.
  
  Lol I know this is a joke but they died out, tree sloths existed back then too and are a totally separate group of animals. They didn’t evolve from the animals that dug this tunnel. They do share a common ancestor millions of years ago but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.
  
  But where does Scrat figure in this?
- We ate them 😔
- Miniaturisation and the march of progress
  How do you think we got tardigrades
- We domesticated them and made purse sloths.

I wasn't sure if this was true or a weird misunderstanding or conspiracy type thing. Seems to be true. Here is an accessible writeup: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231127-brazils-mysterious-tunnels-made-by-giant-sloths
- I thought this was a posting to "Idiots of Facebook" at first. Guess I'm the idiot

... Looks like the recent images from inside my sinus'.
Less boogies though.

These giant slots dug these giants tunnels to hide from whom?
- To hide from their responsibility.
- even bigger sloths
- enter X-files theme song
- To protect their young would be my guess.
- Short-faced bear or humans.

So long and thanks for the avacados!

these were big boi sloths apparently

At the "Grand canyon caverns" in northern Arizona, there are claw marks from a giant sloth who fell into the caves from a hole at ground level and clawed desperately to the walls trying to get out. They tell that story on the tour

Can you imagine being stuck in the dawn of human agriculture, and you seek shelter in a nice cave that you found.... And then a Giant Sloth just lumbers in after a bit.
I mean, I imagine any Homo species of the time would know not to go inside one of these, but still.
- So not giant sloths specifically, but Australian Aboriginals have oral histories describing megafauna that went extinct around the same time period
  
  wow, that implies an aboriginal oral history spanning at least 40,000 years if true
- Megatheriums were herbivores, so it would be like spending the night with an elephant.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium#Ecology
  
  I hear what you're saying, and I recognize anyone inside would be safe from being eaten.... However, as with an elephant, I wouldn't want to be woken up in the middle of the night having intruded upon their home.
- Sounds a lot like Minecraft.

Sloth city.
- That’s in the south, right? I heard a lot of humanists and that ilk are trying to stop them from building it?
  
  You are thinking of Pig City in Georgia.
  
  Wait, what?
  E: this? https://www.appcpanama.org/sloth-sanctuary.html

Sloths are well known for their industrious nature.

- I don't know, it sure seems like there's an idea this poster has passed on to all of us...
- But it's been shared
  Given the community we're in—what's a meme?
- You're confused about what a meme is!
  Have a better informed day
  
  An idea that spreads through a culture becoming a commonly known and repeated concept?

Richard Gere is wishing he was born back then.

This is capitalist propaganda This tunnel was in fact dug by me
- I dig myself deeper holes on a regular basis.

I wonder how fast they could dig.

6' tall? IG of that sloth? uwu

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