Australia is only a horrifying natural death trap so it can balance out the adorableness of the quokka

Larry Niven predicted flash mobs as a consequence of instant teleportation: as soon as something interesting hits the news, a small percentage of everyone would go have a look, quickly overwhelming the place.

Rather than speeding up transportation, we sped up the news, so now we get slow flash mobs destroying places.

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They do have stackable poop, which puts them one level above most rodential pets.

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When its humans domesticating each other the same way we domesticate other nonprimate mammels, there’s a shorter word for it. Slavery is what that’s called.

are carrots native to tasmania?

Not the ones I grow.

However…

http://www.leatherwoodonline.com/tastes/2006/wild/

Wild carrots are a standard Indigenous food, but that does not necessarily mean that they were here before 1788. And, even if they were, it does not necessarily mean that they evolved in Australia; both human and natural sources of biological exchange were in operation across the Torres Strait long before the British showed up.

“Indigenous flora” is a somewhat vague concept once you dig into it. In practice, it often means “a plant that was naturalised some time before we started paying attention to that sort of thing”.

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