Lair of the Third Strongest Mole

Opalized crab claw fossil, a rare geological occurrence where organic material is replaced by precious opal.

The fossil dates back to the Cretaceous period, roughly 66 million years ago, when the area was covered by an inland sea.

It was found in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, a region known for ideal conditions where silica-rich groundwater replaced the original exoskeleton.

Yes I have

It's an ethical optical illusion. The correct choice is red. Everyone would press red and has pressed red. But you know thst "risk yourself to save others" is the kind of answer you are supposed to give as a good and moral person, so people will bend over backwards and invent new elements to make it into the right answer. The social desirability bias will twist their brains up so that picking blue is a heroic moral stand expressing their faith in humanity. They'll say that since losing even 1% of the world would be so disruptive, we have an obligation to press blue to prevent it.

They say everyone has an obligation to press blue in order to save everyone, because some people will press blue recklessly. But they don't believe that logic holds. Nobody actually believes in endangering half of society in order to save the most reckless people in it. If they did, all of them would be as reckless as the most reckless people in society, because they'd be following them around everywhere! They'd hear the national weather service announce a tornado warning that said to stay inside, and would immediately drive outside to try and rescue the people who were too reckless to stay inside.

there is absolutely nothing that is ethically complicated about not endangering yourself to save the most reckless people in the world. period. no ambiguity. if the most reckless people in the world pushed the Commit Suicide Button the proper response is "wow, they really should not have done that" the way you react to literally every other instance of suicidal recklessness.

in fact, you can remove the red button and literally nothing changes! the red button does nothing in the scenario. so the scenario actually is "a man walks up to you and, after determining you can understand the offer, presents a blue button that, if pushed, will kill you unless more than 50% of people total pushed the button. you can also just, like, leave." this scenario is identical in every way and yet the answer is even more screamingly obvious.

those are not added elements. those are just things that always exist in reality. you on the other hand have to add "the question is only presented to people who understand it" in order to make red be the correct answer.

the question is supposed to be an analogy meant to send a message so we are fully within our rights to question whether it IS actually analogous to reality. or whether in order to make the analogy you had to flatten or erase some rather relevant components of this equation.

the component flattened here is a very simple component thats omnipresent in the lives of every person in existence: reality isnt perfect. you assume that everyone who pressed one of the buttons made a conscious informed decision. you assume perfection. reality will not give it to you. its as simple as that. youre also assuming the one who presented the buttons is honest. why do you trust this man who orchestrated this scenario where up to half the human population dies?

even your statement "i do not believe the people who answered the poll "i would press blue" would press blue" is an addition. you have to argue why you don't think the poll is representative of reality, instead of the much simpler solution of assuming that it is.

red only becomes the correct choice when you add something to the basic premise.

it is not a referendum on your faith in humanity

it is "do you select the option that needlessly endangers yourself in order to save the most reckless people in the world?"

A) to promote interesting discussions regarding ethics

B) to gain an obnoxious sense of moral superiority over the ones who chose differently than them

C) both

Cuz ya know, that makes total sense. Current Palestinian societies are run by Jihadists who want to genocide the Jews, but if we just dissolve Israel and let them take over then they'll get rid of their extremist genocidal views and embrace democracy!

"So you want a perfect utopia where nothing bad happens?"

I also have a model update in the pipeline.

The goal? Every Monday and Friday. Though maybe Tuesdays and Fridays. With potential streams now and again where I just so games or random topics while gaming.

Context for other users:

On the morning of April 7, 2026, a fire was started at the Kimberly-Clark Distribution Center in Ontario, California. It escalated to a six-alarm fire and took nearly twelve hours to extinguish. The facility was completely destroyed and declared a "total loss". There were no injuries or deaths. An employee who was working in the warehouse is accused of arson.

Authorities stated that the employee had shared videos of himself starting the fire on Facebook, saying "all you had to do was pay us enough to live" and "there goes your inventory" while lighting pallets of toilet paper ablaze.

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS PAY US ENOUGH TO LIVE

No injuries. No deaths. This was a protest fire. This is why unions are important, to prevent frustrations like these, to ensure people are paid enough to live.

Do you think the heroic impoverished proletariat is doing better or worse now that their workplace has burned down and they can no longer perform labor in exchange for wages? Was this an effective action to empower the heroic impoverished proletariat, or was it destructive and helped nobody except as it provided masturbation material to communists?

It wasn't a protest against ICE. It wasn't some grand statement about Fascism. It did absolutely nothing about international exploitation (not that there even seems to be any notable examples of that attached to Kimberly-Clark as a company.)

It was quite simply some asshole working at a distribution warehouse burning everything down because he felt underpaid...

At a job where he was paid about 17-23 dollars an hour. Which is just above minimum wage in California, but California is a hellhole of bad policy decisions and extravagant costs.

So yeah. Basic form is that it's a shitty guy high on his own politics who destroyed his workplace because he wanted to be a folk hero. And unlike his heroes, he openly stated he did it so his plea of not guilty is kinda gonna go nowhere.

Also, if you just post a gif without any text, tumblr just lists it as a reblog and nothing else. If I hadn't spotted your name and realized you're the recent 'lolcow' I would have never realized you'd made a 'response'.

You throw around slurs and homophobia as if it's going out of style, specifically at gay people no less, and you think you shouldn't have it called out?

news flash: if youre saying any of the idioms on the left youve been punked! heres the REAL sayings:

"money is the root of all evil" -> the love of money is the root of all evil

"blood is thicker than water" -> the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb

"in for a penny, in for a pound" -> in for a penny, in for a pounding

"jack of all trades" -> jack of all trades, master of none

"a broken clock is right twice a day" -> a broken clock is only right twice a day

"birds of a feather stick together" -> birds of a feather stick together in the big glue trap they use to catch birds

"a stitch in time saves nine" -> a lilo and stitch live action sequel movie made in time for the christmas season saves the studio like nine dollars max in the long run because youre competing with like that one ryan reynolds musical or whatever and honestly its a really busy market and the last attempt sucked anyway so like maybe don't

"he who smelt it dealt it" -> he who smelt it dealt it and btw im talking about the blacksmith giving me a free iron ingot only. i hope no one takes me outta context LOL!

Another comic based on a favorite post of mine, because what can I say? I love posts