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If not, it’s still possible to enforce right to repair; most of these arms are able to have 3D-printed components, saw a YouTube video on that.

Don’t let this timeline become Cyberpunk 2077. Please, just don’t.

Welcome to the Genetic Age. Hopefully someone’s researching the Ecotopian or Digital Democracy civics, it’s almost Turn 2025 AD for Sid Meier’s sake!

Yes, but for reasons I don’t remember at the moment, “444” is considered joyful laughter, not danger. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

Yes. Cute and it grows up to be fucking badass. Nice!

Yes, our honey-making insectoid foes! Use your worthy nemesishood to save these elephants from these barbaric warlords! Sting them!

In all seriousness, however they pulled this off, and partly due to my fear of bees and wasps, I approve. Elephants are not stupid, killing them for profit like these African warlords is cruel and said warlords don’t tend to care one bit about animals or people. Having something attack them that they can’t just shoot is going to be(e) a gamechanger.

I’m aware trophy hunting is a thing but I’m also aware they don’t just draw names from a hat. When African megafauna are chosen for trophy hunters, it’s almost always because they’re too aggressive to their other (endangered) peers to a lethal degree. Harvesting ivory enmasse to buy trafficked weapons is much, much more dark a shade of morality given they mostly tend to use the weapons on innocent people (usually impoverish natives) within Africa. Sadly, in Africa, being discriminated against for being dark-skinned does not seem to have always imparted the wisdom of “tolerance for everything but intolerance and causing harm”.

I mean, I am terrified of wasps, but I recognize they’re a crucial part of the ecosystem and just don’t fuck with them. It’d be a phobia, except I don’t panic, I just gtfo if possible and freeze if I can’t. Wasps (at least here) don’t tend to chase things that react to them by increasing the distance between it and you.

That being said, big wasps in general are indeed jerks who will bite and sting you without mercy. Hornets? Yellowjackets? Tarantula Hawks? Ew. Small ones though? There’s these little guys I’ve seen all the time that I just assumed were small ants, turns out they’re (harmless) wasps that use their size to avoid detection and don’t even sting. Entomology is a lot like filling a Pokédex, the “common wisdom” (the descriptions) does not always match the in-the-field observations of scientific value (the actual creature that might help you).

Admittetly that’s the response I’d want to give too, just keep in mind wild animals tend to get very defensive around humans. I don’t doubt the wolf might take it the wrong way.

That being said, there was a news article about a successful rescue of a wolf stuck in river ice; they mistook it for a dog and brought it to a vet, honestly the wolf was (pun not intended) pretty chill since it knew it would have died there.

And of course, Canis lupus, Canis lupus familiaris. Can’t blame you for recognizing the fact that dogs are a subspecies of wolf. Orf, orf! :3