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    Wheeled earthlings are brightly colored, often ornamented as predators, and are clearly capable of killing – but they cannot feed themselves; they rely entirely on bipedal earthlings to suck food from the ground, prepare it, and feed them through tubes.

    Also: When a wheeled earthling kills a prey animal such as a deer, bipedal earthlings typically regard that prey animal as cursed and do not eat it, even though it is made of meat. Bipedals only eat prey animals that have been killed by bipedals, whether in the wild or in specialized killing structures.

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    They are made of meat! They blow air through their vibrating meat tubes to communicate. So gross!

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      “We’re supposed to talk to meat?”

      “That’s the idea. That’s the message they’re sending out by radio. ‘Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?’ That sort of thing.”

      “They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?”

      “Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat.”

      “I thought you just told me they used radio.”

      “They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”

      https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

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    They wear all of their squishy bits on the OUTSIDE of their skeletons. It’s like they’re asking to get injuries

    We all know we’re working towards “crab”. They’re not even close

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    ACK ACK ACK ACK, ACK ACK ACK? ACK ACK ACK ACK.

    ACK ACK ACK we come in peace ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK.

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      To put up a parking lot of all things!

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    Their houses are all wrong. They make 'em weak and they stick out of the landscape like a eyesore. “Oooo, look at me, look at my house” and almost every single human wants a house like that. Houses shouldn’t attract attention. If they do, you’re doing it wrong. Do you think a bird is safer or more exposed with a bright pink nest?

    Hobbits, on the other hand, got it right. Sadly they seem to be very rare as I’ve yet to see a real one. I’ve only ever seen humans appropriating their architecture.

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      They procreate so slowly, they often only have a single child every few years. They can’t really tell which one is the weakest at that rate.

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        Colonies of humans can have tens of thousands of nests. Just gather all the young from the colony, sort them by age, and have the battle.

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    i cannot stand the amount that they talk. constant mouth sounds, just to fill the silence. communication is very important but many of them seek to communicate nothing at all.

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    As a martian, I get all the water I want from fog, but earth seems to like to drown in it. Water is a greenhouse gas people!

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    They don’t use Illudium Q 36 explosive space modulators. I’ll never understand how they manage