• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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    Or are they trying to be so delicious that we cultivate, spread, and ultimately keep their species alive?

    • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
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      No, they were trying to kill all the mammals but failed successfully because naked apes love mildly toxic substances for some reason and started mass reproducing them instead.

      • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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        Humans prefer pain to boredom, on average. I remember reading about a study where subjects were left alone in a room with a button that shocks themselves (they were warned what it does) and they would eventually shock themselves just because there’s nothing else in the room.