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Joementum posted:Early, but this is the obvious choice for quote of the day, "How many of you have got wolves in your district? None. None. Not one. We've got 79 congressmen sending you a letter, they haven't got a drat wolf in their whole district. I'd like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn't have a homeless problem anymore." ~ Rep. Don Young (R-AK). Hahahaha what the gently caress. CommieGIR posted:"Throw the poor to the wolves" a Christian Republican. You gotta make with what you have when you don't have lions.
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CommieGIR posted:"Throw the poor to the wolves" a Christian Republican. No you've got it backwards, it's "throw wolves at the poor". Presumably with some sort of comically oversized slingshot system, because manually hucking a wolf at the indigent is too much effort.
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Mar 6, 2015 17:16
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Hahahaha what the gently caress. So wheres that list of 79 so we can see if there are in fact wolves in their district?
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Mar 6, 2015 17:22
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What about moose? Do they prefer to impale poors or wolves?
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Edminster posted:No you've got it backwards, it's "throw wolves at the poor". Presumably with some sort of comically oversized slingshot system, because manually hucking a wolf at the indigent is too much effort. What if they're wolf pups  
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Mar 6, 2015 17:24
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Edminster posted:No you've got it backwards, it's "throw wolves at the poor". Presumably with some sort of comically oversized slingshot system, because manually hucking a wolf at the indigent is too much effort. 
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Mar 6, 2015 17:26
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hobbesmaster posted:So wheres that list of 79 so we can see if there are in fact wolves in their district? Here you go.
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Mar 6, 2015 17:28
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:What if they're wolf pups Give them to the kids and hope they grow up to become hats or something like that.
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Mar 6, 2015 17:28
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:What if they're wolf pups d'awwww Why are baby wild animals so cute Like seriously what evolutionary advantage is it to us to find, say, a bear cub adorable and cuddly
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Mar 6, 2015 17:29
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Personally I think the Democrats oughta change their symbol from the Donkey to the Moose. Their horns are as sharp as tusks.
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Joementum posted:Early, but this is the obvious choice for quote of the day, "How many of you have got wolves in your district? None. None. Not one. We've got 79 congressmen sending you a letter, they haven't got a drat wolf in their whole district. I'd like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn't have a homeless problem anymore." ~ Rep. Don Young (R-AK). I just came here to post this because hoooooly gently caress
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Gah no states listed. First guy represents Tucson, AZ though and they're trying to reintroduce wolves in that part of AZ so...
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Mar 6, 2015 17:36
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:d'awwww Well, wolves are so cute and cuddly we started adopting them 8k years ago and now have puppies.
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Mar 6, 2015 17:37
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All baby animals have the same general characteristics and distortions from their adult form. You find one baby mammal cute, you find them all cute. In all fairness that guy isn't saying the homeless should be fed to wolves, he's saying that wolves should be removed from the endangered species list so that there are more legal measures that can be taken against them and used a graphic example of what they'll do of their own free will when not managed properly. He just could have worded it a hell of a lot better.
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Mar 6, 2015 17:45
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In case anyone forgot, Don Young is also the "wetbacks" guy.
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Mar 6, 2015 17:46
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haveblue posted:All baby animals have the same general characteristics and distortions from their adult form. You find one baby mammal cute, you find them all cute. I don't get that at all from the quote. Pretty sure he's just at Don Young default rear end in a top hat setting.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:d'awwww http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness#Biological_function_of_cuteness quote:Konrad Lorenz argued in 1949 that infantile features triggered nurturing responses in adults and that this was an evolutionary adaptation which helped ensure that adults cared for their children, ultimately securing the survival of the species. Some later scientific studies have provided further evidence for Lorenz's theory. For example, it has been shown that human adults react positively to infants who are stereotypically cute. Studies have also shown that responses to cuteness—and to facial attractiveness in general—seem to be similar across and within cultures.[7] In a study conducted by Stephan Hamann of Emory University, he found using an fMRI, that cute pictures increased brain activity in the orbital frontal cortex.
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Spun Dog posted:I don't get that at all from the quote. Pretty sure he's just at Don Young default rear end in a top hat setting. I got that from the rest of the linked article. I have no doubt he's an rear end in a top hat who says stuff like that all the time but there's no need to put words in his mouth.
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haveblue posted:All baby animals have the same general characteristics and distortions from their adult form. You find one baby mammal cute, you find them all cute. Obviously the endangered species act allows stuff like that to happen. The Florida Panther is critically endangered but mountain lions in other parts of the country do have population control programs in effect. (Nature's population control is for them to starve to death due to a lack of food and starving lions will happily eat humans)
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Spun Dog posted:I don't get that at all from the quote. Pretty sure he's just at Don Young default rear end in a top hat setting. Well, the quote is intentionally anti-wolf, so at least it implies that having all your homeless devoured by wolves would be a bad thing. That said the fact that his mind leapt there is indicative, too -- he's assuming that everyone thinks of the homeless as a "problem," etc.
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Mar 6, 2015 17:49
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haveblue posted:All baby animals have the same general characteristics and distortions from their adult form. You find one baby mammal cute, you find them all cute. We know that's what he's talking about but it's more funny to joke about him saying wolves should eat poor people. Cute and cuddly did help domesticate dogs. Thus we got the corgi.
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haveblue posted:I got that from the rest of the linked article. I have no doubt he's an rear end in a top hat who says stuff like that all the time but there's no need to put words in his mouth. I read the article too, sure it was in the context of taking them off the endangered species list, but he just can't help threatening homeless people on that unrelated topic. Guy is an rear end in a top hat.
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Joementum posted:Early, but this is the obvious choice for quote of the day, "How many of you have got wolves in your district? None. None. Not one. We've got 79 congressmen sending you a letter, they haven't got a drat wolf in their whole district. I'd like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn't have a homeless problem anymore." ~ Rep. Don Young (R-AK). Why haven't the wolves helped here, Don?!
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site posted:Even better knowing that, yes, AK has wolves, but we also have a huge homeless problem that Young's Republican policies exacerbate. Sounds like you need more wolves.
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Mar 6, 2015 18:12
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Like seriously what evolutionary advantage is it to us to find, say, a bear cub adorable and cuddly e: god damnit beaten twice
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Mar 6, 2015 18:13
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site posted:Even better knowing that, yes, AK has wolves, but we also have a huge homeless problem that Young's Republican policies exacerbate. Those are outdoorsmen.
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Mar 6, 2015 18:16
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:d'awwww I think it's to make it easier for another mother to take them in if they're abandoned. Probably not right in the least, but I swear I remember hearing it somewhere 
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Mar 6, 2015 18:20
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Today is the 2nd anniversary of Rand Paul's filibuster where he warned us that the federal government might one day use drones to find out who's sending letters to our mailboxes. 
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Mar 6, 2015 18:32
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Chokes McGee posted:I think it's to make it easier for another mother to take them in if they're abandoned. Probably not right in the least, but I swear I remember hearing it somewhere Ok I clearly didn't express myself well. I understand why it's an advantage to be found adorable. I understand why the bear cub is better off being cute. What I don't understand is why it's to the viewer's advantage to find things adorable. "Oh hay let's cuddle that bear cub it's so cute" is not a survival strategy!
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Mar 6, 2015 18:36
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok I clearly didn't express myself well. maybe theres no advantage or disadvantage
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like why do you think there has to be a reason for finding things cute?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok I clearly didn't express myself well. It is species adaptive to find your own species' young cute. We find baby animals cute because their "cuteness markers" are the same as baby humans.
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Mar 6, 2015 18:44
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hobbesmaster posted:Gah no states listed. First guy represents Tucson, AZ though and they're trying to reintroduce wolves in that part of AZ so... Semi-related, but as someone who currently lives in downtown Tucson, yeah, I'd say we have a massive homeless problem. The intersection of Congress and Grenada has more or less a permanent tent-city. That's ridiculous! Of course, when I call it a "problem" I think it's different than when other people refer to a "homeless problem". Every time I pass them I think "It's a huge problem. We should get some of these people the mental help and care they need and the rest of them should get the shelter and opportunity they need." and apparently some other people think the "problem" is that they exist, so "feed em to wolves".
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forbidden lesbian posted:like why do you think there has to be a reason for finding things cute? quote:
Of course, Holmes was wrong there, because the beauty of flowers serves an evolutionary purpose -- it attracts bees, etc. Though honestly the real reason is probably just that we're wired to find human babies cute and all mammal babies look roughly the same for purposes of those primal triggers.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Of course, Holmes was wrong there, because the beauty of flowers serves an evolutionary purpose -- it attracts bees, etc. Konrad Lorenz argued that its an evolutionary advantage. So far brain studies show its entirely possible. Feynman Series - Beauty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmbwczTC6E
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok I clearly didn't express myself well. It's a side effect of the aforementioned resemblance to our own offspring. And just about any honest parent will tell you that if humans didn't find kids adorable and loveable, infanticide would be a lot more common.
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amanasleep posted:It is species adaptive to find your own species' young cute. We find baby animals cute because their "cuteness markers" are the same as baby humans. Then why are kittens and puppies cuter than babies?
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Stultus Maximus posted:Then why are kittens and puppies cuter than babies? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
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Stultus Maximus posted:Then why are kittens and puppies cuter than babies? Cause they are fuzzy and learn not to poo poo themselves a helluva lot quicker. Is my guess anyway.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Then why are kittens and puppies cuter than babies? Because humans have been breeding them for maximum cuteness for thousands of years.
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