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Yeah, that is true. Still, primates at least had a pretty good base from which to work towards evolving to use tools - hands, relatively high intelligence, and decent lifespans. I don’t even know how you’d go about giving a dolphin or ravens grippers. Octopi and rats have a decent base to work with in terms of grabbing things, but they would need to evolve to extend their lifetimes several times over before they could reasonably maintain a civilization.

Tbh as someone else said, it’s most likely some other primate species would take over in the meantime since they’re much closer.

Dolphins do sex for pleasure and find “toys” to masturbate with

I, uh. Think there’s a word for what they do to their “toys”, and it isn’t masturbation.

To be fair, I feel like ravens would probably need a lot less wood than humans do, so branches & young trees would likely suffice.

True, no opposable thumbs, though. Perhaps they could develop some kind of written language, but I don’t think it’d be nearly as easy as it is for us and I doubt they’d be able to do much with complex tools.

Thanks for the link! Sadly, it doesn’t look like that’s an option for me. :/

The Flow mask is definitely a bit pricey, but I could probably put away some money for it or something similar. It also addresses one of the issues I have with other elastomeric masks which is that I struggle to do anything in public that I fear might draw attention to me due to heavy (psychological) masking, and a lot of the others look very attention grabbing.

It’s real sad to me how all the other intelligent lifeforms on this planet are biologically limited in one way or another. Rats? Live a few years. Octopi? Live a few years. Dolphins? The fuck they gonna do with those flippers? Ravens? Ditto, but wings. They can’t even masturbate. Humans hit the evolutionary jackpot.

One of the last things I saw before leaving Twitter again (I rejoined for a bit back in October because I was angry about electoral politics) was abled leftists scolding disabled leftists who criticized leftist orgs for not taking COVID seriously. How many horrors do we have to see from this goddamn virus before people start taking it seriously?

Between all the recent news about COVID and H5N1 I’m finally going to invest in a bunch of N95s, I think. I tried to avoid non-reusable masks for a while because I’m on disability and every expense has to be justified, but…