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Even if you were a difficult child, you didn't deserve to be hurt.

Saying "ow" not because it hurts but because it seems to be the correct thing to say at the moment is such a weird human trait.

It has been one year since “Leia Standing Up”. So to celebrate… I am pretty much just pointing it out.

The point of car safety features is that the car is supposed to die in an accident so you don't have to. Your car should be a pile of smoking rubble after an accident, and you should be fine.

I've seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they're being groomed, and it's bugging me because, like, there's no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says "groom that thing".

An Extremely Goofy Move [2000].