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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 185 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Basically a badgermole from Avatar, the last airbender

[–] PositiveControl@feddit.it 27 points 2 months ago

Exactly my thought lol

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 111 points 2 months ago (1 children)

🎡 Two lovers forbidden from one another 🎡

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

🎡 A war divides their people 🎡

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

🎡 And a mountain divides them apart, build a path to be together 🎡

[–] LapGoat@pawb.social 40 points 2 months ago
...Yeah, and I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes...

Secret tunnel!

Secret tunnel!

Through the mountain! 

Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel
[–] Mango@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

SECRET TUNNEL!!!!!

[–] Twinkletoes@lemm.ee 93 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] eunieisthebus@feddit.org 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Through the mountains 🎡

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If they still existed they would probably have moved into existing human-mined tunnels. Whether they'd wait until we abandoned them or chase us out, or help us build them, would depend on our relationship with them

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

What if we domesticated them and used them to mine coal?

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"A train derailed in the tunnel due to a giant sloth sleeping on the tracks. No word of survivors at the time of recording, but officials say that they are expecting multiple fatalities including the sloth."

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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Big enough to be comfortably used by humans

Pffffbtbtbt, housing crisis schmousing crisis. There's your answer, chaps.

[–] BadlyDrawnRhino@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just wait until some oil baron says that sloth-dug tunnels is the way to "deal" with climate change.

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[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The tiny thumbnail for this looked like a belly button on my phone, had no idea what I was tapping on at first

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The fun part is that you were more curious than apprehensive and were willing to subject yourself to whatever the Internet brought you for the day.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 31 points 2 months ago

So my take from this is, the higher above ground level a sloth is, the lazier it gets.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I heard if you turn out the lights and kiss your crush, you can find a way out of the tunnel.

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[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I may not be remembering correctly, but didn't Sloth dig the tunnel in Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood?

Edit: had to look it up. He did. Probably a coincidence

[–] viking@beehaw.org 21 points 2 months ago

I'm having a hard time not seeing a belly button.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

And what happened to the giant sloths?

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Earth warms up from ice age. Big sloth too fuzzy. Loses fuzz and tries to climb tree. Big sloth too big. Small big sloth gets smaller, climbs tree.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Lol I know this is a joke but they died out, tree sloths existed back then too and are a totally separate group of animals. They didn’t evolve from the animals that dug this tunnel. They do share a common ancestor millions of years ago but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.

I'm pretty sure my house cat believes this is true, evidence to the contrary be damned.

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[–] Infynis@midwest.social 17 points 2 months ago

We ate them πŸ˜”

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Miniaturisation and the march of progress

How do you think we got tardigrades

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[–] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't sure if this was true or a weird misunderstanding or conspiracy type thing. Seems to be true. Here is an accessible writeup: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231127-brazils-mysterious-tunnels-made-by-giant-sloths

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[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

... Looks like the recent images from inside my sinus'.

Less boogies though.

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[–] skhayfa@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

These giant slots dug these giants tunnels to hide from whom?

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

To hide from their responsibility.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

even bigger sloths

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[–] erie09@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

So long and thanks for the avacados!

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Can you imagine being stuck in the dawn of human agriculture, and you seek shelter in a nice cave that you found.... And then a Giant Sloth just lumbers in after a bit.

I mean, I imagine any Homo species of the time would know not to go inside one of these, but still.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Megatheriums were herbivores, so it would be like spending the night with an elephant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium#Ecology

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That’s in the south, right? I heard a lot of humanists and that ilk are trying to stop them from building it?

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

You are thinking of Pig City in Georgia.

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Sloths are well known for their industrious nature.

[–] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

At the "Grand canyon caverns" in northern Arizona, there are claw marks from a giant sloth who fell into the caves from a hole at ground level and clawed desperately to the walls trying to get out. They tell that story on the tour cri

Richard Gere is wishing he was born back then.

[–] DesertComrade@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is capitalist propaganda This tunnel was in fact dug by me

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I dig myself deeper holes on a regular basis.

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