this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
1199 points (98.9% liked)

Microblog Memes

6016 readers
4172 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I like the one where they gave rats a lot of food and space (rat paradise) and let them breed till they were crawling over eachother till there wasnt enough food for them all. When most of them died and food was available once more, the remainders stopped eating and all the rats died.

Rats are interesting but I think the guy that programmed them left in some bugs.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 days ago

Even the creator of that experiment said it was deeply flawed, and that their colony broke down because there was literally nothing to enrich their lives in the habitat. They were essentially going crazy from boredom.

He then went on to design rat experiments that were designed to actually facilitate a fulfilling and engaging life for the rats, and they thrived, from what I recall.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah idk if I just watched most of my friends and family drop dead from starvation, I don't think I'd want to go on living either.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

rats are strange little critters. incredibly clever, but you'll never know what they'll use their smarts for

Is this going to be a model for the history of mankind?