#why with alarm or distress? my tone if anything was lighthearted and jokey
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#i dont want any of this rbed I just think about this sort of thing but#sometimes people state extremes and only discuss like that and while i Know its to better focus their argument#i feel compelled to point things out or disagree so i read entire posts just :/ and bothered by the inaccuracy#like... a post on how animals dont grasp words the way we do? absolutely yeah#but that means they therefore dont grasp words at all doesnt explain how my cats respond to offhand sentences as literal#and im talking like. i made a joke with abstract terms that shouldnt have elicited a reaction but it DID#if i ask my ducks questions they can point things out for me#i made a crack once about how one of our cats who has a nickname of ‘little bits’#wasnt the little bits anymore - bc we had just brought in new orphaned kittens#and the cat in question had been watching through the glass door somewhat distressed by the new changes#but it wasnt until I said that she looked Visibly ALARMED and began pounding desparately at the door#maybe she responded because it was her name but#why with alarm or distress? my tone if anything was lighthearted and jokey#and i know their body language it wasn’t excitement or feeling like i was calling her it was definitely distress#so either she understood my words just fine or she made some sort of -abstract- conclusion#but in either case I feel like that still boils down to ‘their brain works differently but that doesn’t mean it’s incapable of processing’#im not saying every animal can do this but i highly doubt we just miraculously always have human language virtuosos either#or like when it comes to the crystal debates#and im saying this absolutely understanding this isnt the point it just is all my brain ever focuses on#but like. stones can -have- ‘healing’ effects but absolutely not the way people frame it#but people talking disparagingly of crystal healer crackpots tend to frame it from the angles of crystals cant do ANYthing#rather than these crackpots - being crackpots - don’t understand/arent framing it right#and then theres the goddamn pro/anti technology argument and how adults framing the cons of technology are just paranoid boomers#bc if tech can do all these good things then surely it can Only have good side effects!!1!1!!#it can.... be both????? it can have its advantages and disadvantages#and this was a debate I saw more often like nearly a decade ago so id like to think stances have shifted#given the cyberdystopia we’re rapidly accelerating towards at least here in the usa#but idk#blablablah#gripegripegripe
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