@0xBEEF It’s more than *just* neoteny though - its also neuter vs masculine + feminine

Jonathan Haidt has spoken/written about this a bunch

i _do_ like that @Blonde in the Belly of the Beast always reads the live chat. 🍻

Haidt is very smart

@Nic Harvard What generation are you?

When I heard brown eggs, I thought about chickens and which breeds have brown eggs.

I’m pushing 50 now, but grew up in Africa

@Nic Har

Which makes me 3500 in human years🤣

It depends on the chicken, my mom has some that lay teal eggs

@Nic Harvard we're same Gen.... most of my gen are children, let alone the snowflakes all the way down.

I love the olive eggs and guinea hens produce pretty eggs too @coldemoon

It’s a very long story Ox, and we’ve always had these factors. They are actually rather beneficial!
Just got out of hand around 1890 then in the fifties. Now another spurt

I’m going to share my new book with you guys for crit/edit comment before I take it to print, oddly

@Nic Harvard i am legitimately interested in your views on the alt-right, though.

also very interested in your _book_.

congrats, man. that's a big accomplishment.

Rebranded populism

@2krispy4u for over 15 years now my mom been raising chicken in their back yard, usually around a dozen or so and they are mix of different breeds. I don't taste a difference between them, but it's kind of fun to see what colors I get when I go and pick up a carton of eggs. It's also fun to watch then run around

sure. but populism based around what and for what reason?

I'm not really looking forward to living through the civil unrest and societal collapse that spoiled bored children want to bring about while our actual enemies stack up at the gates...

@newtradist I rather like the tea party alt-right non-neocon types.
The tribalism though... all identitarians suck. Very limiting. Get a religion or something for chrissakes, then you can convert or enslave the foe rather than turning them into fertiliser

@coldemoon yeah. I’ve heard there is no taste difference just visually appealing. I buy backyard chicken magazines at Sam’s and one day will have chickens or ducks. I think it will be a good learning experience for my kids one day

"get a religion for christsakes" 😆

@Nic Harvard brutal but true. one step down is just the unbridled nihilism that wants to make everyone including themselves into fertilizer.

Ok chaps. This is a great convo, but I ought to jump off..

quote of the day.

🤔🤣😬

Pun intended;)

@2krispy4u fun fact, chickens are omnivores and by extension cannibals. found that out the other week

Alright. Perhaps pop in again, first time here tonight

I’m always in and out

Well put @Nic Harvard

Yeah! They will eat chicks and their own eggs. If give chickens crushed up egg shells that is supposed to help. I’ve also seen chicken eat snakes and rats. Fucking dinosaurs dude.

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@coldemoon

@2krispy4u My mom told me that one time a racoon got into the run and killed one of them but left the corpse (guessing it ate it's fill), and by the time my parents got around to clean it up, the other chickens already pecked it clean.

It just makes the chicken more chicken-y @coldemoon 😅😅

perhaps ruminate on that when you're sticking your finger in your navel contemplating "saving nature" and "the environment".

my uncle was telling me a story a while back about the wild house cats that he was feeding had a litter and they ended up killing and eating the runty one.

@2krispy4u lol