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Sloths 🦥 (mander.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Richard Gere is wishing he was born back then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I wonder how fast they could dig.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sloth city.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Wait, what?

E: this? https://www.appcpanama.org/sloth-sanctuary.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was making a joke about cop city. Sorry it sucked😒

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It probably didn’t, I just don’t have the reference in my head for it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

You are thinking of Pig City in Georgia.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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] 5 points 4 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] 7 points 4 months ago

A(lmost)NSFW

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is capitalist propaganda This tunnel was in fact dug by me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I dig myself deeper holes on a regular basis.

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