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    Basically a badgermole from Avatar, the last airbender

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      Exactly my thought lol

    • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works
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      lol this is immediately what I thought of haha

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      I don’t remember this image being from ATLA, is it perhaps from TLOK

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        It was during ATLA, they helped evacuate earth kingdom citizens when the fire nation took over the kingdom.

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          To be fair it has been a long time since I watched ATLA

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        1000% atla. Secret tunnel episode. Maybe the best episode?

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          Most not remember it then

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            But… The secret tunnel song! How unforgettable!

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        I think so, looks like Prince Wu up to the right there.

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    🎵 Two lovers forbidden from one another 🎵

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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      🎵 A war divides their people 🎵

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        🎵 And a mountain divides them apart, build a path to be together 🎵

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          ...Yeah, and I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes...
          
          Secret tunnel!
          
          Secret tunnel!
          
          Through the mountain! 
          
          Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel
          
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          SECRET TUNNEL!!!

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    Secret Tunnel 🎶

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      Through the mountains 🎵

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        Bring the Cheetos 🎵

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    If they still existed they would probably have moved into existing human-mined tunnels. Whether they’d wait until we abandoned them or chase us out, or help us build them, would depend on our relationship with them

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      What if we domesticated them and used them to mine coal?

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      “A train derailed in the tunnel due to a giant sloth sleeping on the tracks. No word of survivors at the time of recording, but officials say that they are expecting multiple fatalities including the sloth.”

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      that sounds like the plot of Ring of Fire

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    The tiny thumbnail for this looked like a belly button on my phone, had no idea what I was tapping on at first

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      A(lmost)NSFW

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      The fun part is that you were more curious than apprehensive and were willing to subject yourself to whatever the Internet brought you for the day.

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    Big enough to be comfortably used by humans

    Pffffbtbtbt, housing crisis schmousing crisis. There’s your answer, chaps.

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      Just wait until some oil baron says that sloth-dug tunnels is the way to “deal” with climate change.

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        If they are willing to bring back giant burrowing sloths, I am willing to experience the “tunnel hovels to escape climate change” timeline so long as I get to be a sloth supervisor.

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      Coober Peby Australia has you covered!

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    So my take from this is, the higher above ground level a sloth is, the lazier it gets.

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    I heard if you turn out the lights and kiss your crush, you can find a way out of the tunnel.

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      Teacher says, every time a bell rings, a secret tunnel collapses on two lovers.

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    I may not be remembering correctly, but didn’t Sloth dig the tunnel in Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood?

    Edit: had to look it up. He did. Probably a coincidence

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    I’m having a hard time not seeing a belly button.

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    And what happened to the giant sloths?

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      Earth warms up from ice age. Big sloth too fuzzy. Loses fuzz and tries to climb tree. Big sloth too big. Small big sloth gets smaller, climbs tree.

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        Lol I know this is a joke but they died out, tree sloths existed back then too and are a totally separate group of animals. They didn’t evolve from the animals that dug this tunnel. They do share a common ancestor millions of years ago but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.

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          but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.

          I’m pretty sure my house cat believes this is true, evidence to the contrary be damned.

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          but we all came from the same common ancestor which was the naked nucleic acid/peptide chain

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        But where does Scrat figure in this?

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      We ate them 😔

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      Miniaturisation and the march of progress

      How do you think we got tardigrades

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      We domesticated them and made purse sloths.

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    I wasn’t sure if this was true or a weird misunderstanding or conspiracy type thing. Seems to be true. Here is an accessible writeup: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231127-brazils-mysterious-tunnels-made-by-giant-sloths

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      I thought this was a posting to “Idiots of Facebook” at first. Guess I’m the idiot

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    … Looks like the recent images from inside my sinus’.

    Less boogies though.

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    These giant slots dug these giants tunnels to hide from whom?

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      To hide from their responsibility.

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      even bigger sloths

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      enter X-files theme song

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      To protect their young would be my guess.

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      Short-faced bear or humans.

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    So long and thanks for the avacados!

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