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by intuitionist 425 days ago
I was walking along in the desert when I noticed a tortoise crawling in the sand. I reached down and flipped the tortoise on its back. It laid on its back, belly baking in the hot sun, legs beating, trying to turn itself right side up, but it couldn’t, not without my help. But I didn’t help. AITA?
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INFO: Describe in single words only the good things that come to mind about your mother.
Fun fact: They have a device that

    "...cancels an android into catalepsy," Rachael said, her eyes shut. "For a few seconds."
It is mentioned once, then never again AFAIR. They could use that device to detect andys with the press of a button, but why do that when you have something straightforward like the Voigt-Kampff test?
A tortoise? What's that?