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Sloths 🦥 (mander.xyz)
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[-] [email protected] 185 points 1 year ago

Basically a badgermole from Avatar, the last airbender

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Exactly my thought lol

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[-] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago

🎵 Two lovers forbidden from one another 🎵

[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago

🎵 A war divides their people 🎵

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

🎵 And a mountain divides them apart, build a path to be together 🎵

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago
...Yeah, and I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes...

Secret tunnel!

Secret tunnel!

Through the mountain! 

Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel
[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

SECRET TUNNEL!!!!!

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Through the mountains 🎵

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

What if we domesticated them and used them to mine coal?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"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."

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

The tiny thumbnail for this looked like a belly button on my phone, had no idea what I was tapping on at first

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A(lmost)NSFW

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Big enough to be comfortably used by humans

Pffffbtbtbt, housing crisis schmousing crisis. There's your answer, chaps.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Just wait until some oil baron says that sloth-dug tunnels is the way to "deal" with climate change.

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I heard if you turn out the lights and kiss your crush, you can find a way out of the tunnel.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

And what happened to the giant sloths?

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.

I'm pretty sure my house cat believes this is true, evidence to the contrary be damned.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

We ate them 😔

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Miniaturisation and the march of progress

How do you think we got tardigrades

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I thought this was a posting to "Idiots of Facebook" at first. Guess I'm the idiot

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

... Looks like the recent images from inside my sinus'.

Less boogies though.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

These giant slots dug these giants tunnels to hide from whom?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

To hide from their responsibility.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

even bigger sloths

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

So long and thanks for the avacados!

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Megatheriums were herbivores, so it would be like spending the night with an elephant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium#Ecology

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Sloths are well known for their industrious nature.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

That’s in the south, right? I heard a lot of humanists and that ilk are trying to stop them from building it?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

You are thinking of Pig City in Georgia.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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 cri

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Richard Gere is wishing he was born back then.

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