davefischer , 5 months ago

@futurebird My cat Kobaïa once ordered a Kierkegaard book off Amazon (by taking a nap on a Kindle Touch).

enantiomer , 5 months ago

@futurebird kinda seems like this IS their job

floatybirb , 5 months ago

@futurebird put those ladies to work building a step pyramid, a tiny boat or an atomic powered toaster.

You can give them little hard hats for the construction process. It will be cute.

RichPuchalsky , 5 months ago

@futurebird

I also had a look at my pets' income shortfall:

https://kolektiva.social/@RichPuchalsky/111845577646002790

seanpatrickphd , 5 months ago

@futurebird Well, if they were good at managing money, they would be FIRE ants...

johnefrancis , 5 months ago

@futurebird did they order more sugar? Or a small box of defenseless bugs?

futurebird OP , 5 months ago

@johnefrancis

BOTH

johnefrancis , 5 months ago

@futurebird I wonder how the seller catches them. Maybe it's a birdman. Would a birdman eat them all? 🤔

michaelgemar , 5 months ago

@futurebird What are your ants buying?

futurebird OP , 5 months ago

@michaelgemar

Sugar, fruit fly traps... and a disturbing number of books on nuclear physics??

michaelgemar , 5 months ago

@futurebird Yeah, that doesn't sound good...

futurebird OP , 5 months ago

@michaelgemar

I don't even want to think about what the cat has ordered...

justafrog , 5 months ago

@futurebird @michaelgemar The ants pinkie promise that the nuclear physics book is purely out of general interest in science.

They say, don't worry about that.

Where did they get this pinkie finger to make promises with?

Once again, don't worry about that.

They make sure to have a fresh one at all times.

crashglasshouses , 5 months ago

@futurebird @michaelgemar

how else will ants learn to sort tiny screws in space if they don't learn how to go to space?

c0dec0dec0de , 5 months ago

@futurebird @michaelgemar TBF the threshold for “disturbing” on “number of books on nuclear physics” for all non-human lifeforms is currently set to 1

llewelly , 5 months ago

@futurebird @michaelgemar
many years ago I read an odd book on the Japanese WWII nuclear fission research program. According to it, the program was so poorly funded researchers had to donate the sugar from their personal rations to an important chemical reaction. Unfortunately, I have totally forgotten the title of the book and the nature of the reaction. But it was crucial in enabling them to produce the postage-stamp-sized bit of refined U 235 they produced by the end of WWII.