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by jerf 4052 days ago
What, and Rustacean doesn't? When we Uplift our Cetacean friends, is this sort of awkward appropriation really how you want to meet the newly-conscious masters of 3/4s of the planet?

(Cough.)

2 comments

I parse 'Rustacean' as appropriating crustaceans, not cetaceans. I'm rather less worried about annoying them, because i eat enough prawn toast that i'm already on their shitlist.
As an ex-sorta/kinda-its-complicated-vegan, this comment makes me smile, for sure :)

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