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Anonymous09/13/26, 15:59No.5160531Rats
Nobody cares about rats.
In fact, there is almost no issue more bipartisan than not caring in the slightest about the welfare of rats. Almost no belief is more widely shared by the American public than not giving a rat’s ass about…well…a rat’s ass. There are many times more people who think the earth is 6,000 years old than people who care the slightest bit about the welfare of rats.
Rats are about as smart as cats. It’s undeniable that they feel pain; one way we know this is that they have the same brain regions that activate in humans when humans feel pain. Another is that when you try to inflict pain on them, they thrash around horribly—trying desperately to get away. It is obvious when a dog is in pain. It is likewise obvious when a rat is in pain for precisely the same reasons, in exactly the same ways.
They solve mazes and do puzzles. They play and can imagine far-off locations; https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/new-study-shows-rats-possess-power-of-imagination-similar-to-humans/ they display meta-cognition, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221011179 being able to think about their thoughts. They feel more empathy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39298607/ for one another than we do for them. They engage in self-sacrifice https://www.phillymag.com/news/2011/12/14/rats-compassionate/ for the sake of their friends. On some cognitive tests, they outscore humans. https://hbr.org/2015/01/rats-can-be-smarter-than-people

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Anon09/13/26, 16:01No.5160532
But nobody cares in the slightest about rats. We slowly and painfully poison billions of rats to death every year. Often it takes days to kill them. Rethink Priorities noted: https://rpstrategicanimalinsights.substack.com/p/anti-rodenticides-advocacy>Rodenticides are thought to cause rodents 2-3 days of intense pain before eventually causing death. For example, some types of rodenticides cause symptoms of internal bleeding in rodents: dizziness, abdominal pain, diarrhea, hypothermia, rapid heartbeat, and difficulty breathing. Poisoned rodents often act in ways suggesting that they are in pain, including discontinuing eating, standing in a hunched posture, and wandering into open spaces where they are vulnerable to predators.
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Anon09/13/26, 16:15No.5160542
>Nobody cares about men.>In fact, there is almost no issue more bipartisan than not caring in the slightest about the welfare of men and boys. Almost no belief is more widely shared by the American public than not giving a rat’s ass about a baby boys bodily autonomy to not be mutilated. There are many times more people who think the earth is 6,000 years old than people who care the slightest bit about infant male circumcision or divorce and family courts.>teenage boys are about as smart and strong as adult women. It’s undeniable baby boys feel pain when circumcised; one way we know this is that they have the same brain regions that activate in adult humans when adult humans feel pain. Another is that when you try to inflict pain on them by mutilating them while they are strapped down, they thrash around horribly-trying desperately to get away. It is obvious when an adult man is in pain. It is likewise obvious when a baby boy is in pain for precisely the same reasons, in exactly the same ways.
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Anon09/13/26, 16:15No.5160543
Thanks grok
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Anon09/13/26, 16:31No.5160547
>Another benthams ai spam thread
Liberal cognition is defective.
"I used a lot of words to say rats are alive, better let them shit in your grain stores. How can we really say murder and rape are wrong if lab rats, HUH? All life is like, LIFE man"
>>>/india/
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Anon09/13/26, 16:59No.5160563
What about longevity drugs currently being tested on them?
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Anon09/13/26, 17:03No.5160566
>Excuse me, but I asked AI!
Spamming AI vomit is the same as conceding the argument. You source a chatbot that uses extremely biased sources.You therefore have no argument. Just say "uhm, the wef says you worthless worker drones well being is sufficient without sacrificing sentient beans, save the precious flesh for your superior rulers" and get it over with. Because that is the honestly held belief of the debt-capital worshiping cabal that owns western AI development.The irony of a self proclaimed "ethical" vegan getting all its opinions from a heavily biased, billionaire owned chatbot that sucks up power and water like nothing else is fucking rich.

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Anon09/13/26, 17:17No.5160572
I was thinking about doing pest control because I need a job but I don't want to kill rats or mice with poison :(

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Anon09/14/26, 09:11No.5160750

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Anon09/14/26, 18:20No.5160829
I love rats.

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Anon09/23/26, 07:41No.5163063
bump for interest
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Anon09/23/26, 09:36No.5163070
If rats are so smart why do they eat poison? Lol. Stupid idiot rats...
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Anon09/23/26, 11:49No.5163079
I am Rattus Norvegicus.
I’m sitting in some shit-hole rat’s nest and I’m a little angry.
I wanted to be a talk show host, not a rat.
You men think you have it bad with women?
I’ve got it a lot worse, let me tell you.
What am I gonna say to some nice looking girl who I want to meet?
I can tread water for over 36 hours?
I can chew through lead pipes and cinderblocks?
I can run on telephone wires?!
And what if I do get the girl home?
Can’t fit her though the door - it’s too small.
Yeah I got a lot of gripes.
How’d you like to have a tail that went through your body to drag around all the time?
Not my idea of fun by a long shot!
And do you see the neighborhoods that I’m forced to live in?
Those people live like pigs!
Can’t catch the subway, they haven’t built it yet.
Can’t catch the up-town bus, I can’t reach the step-up.
Hey taxi!
And everyone
Wants to kill me,
Feed me drugs and poison,
Put electrodes in my head and make me run on treadmills
Dissect, bisect, and defect me,
Bind, blind, maim and tame me.
Are you folks crazy?!
You never invite me to your parties, as if I would really wanna go anyhow.
Have you ever asked me to go to a movie?
How ‘bout bowling?
You ever seen a rat cry?
I got tears.
And I have a heart and I got brains.
If you could just see past the fur,
I think that you would see
That I’m a lot like you.
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Anon09/24/26, 07:23No.5163365
There's often rats in the compost heap at the bottom of the garden. I leave them being as they don't come inside.
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Anon09/25/26, 21:49No.5163697
i kill rats for a living nigga
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Anon09/27/26, 01:51No.5163910
>Nobody cares about rats.
I do.
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Anon09/27/26, 06:04No.5163946
ive always thought about having rats as pets but the fact they live such short lives and die such painful deaths always soured the idea

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Anon09/28/26, 06:15No.5164126
I like rats. I used to help take care of the ones my science teacher owned.
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Anon09/29/26, 03:20No.5164368
Why are they such worldly creatures?

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Anon09/30/26, 19:39No.5164825
I was born in the year of the rat
Government trying to poison me too so I can relate
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Anon10/04/26, 20:01No.5165950
>Nobody cares about rats.
I do.

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Anon10/05/26, 05:07No.5166051
I love rats so much. I'll give them a better life. I will.
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Anon10/13/26, 03:21No.5167958
>it's a the neighbours left the bin lid open so the town rat got in and is now trying to get out episode