This entire article is gold:
- The bird is called Bebe
- Bebe was fine. He was there for 15 minutes, and there was a lot of practice, safety, and care. Bebe is also used to shenanigans of all sorts
- The submarine is called the Bebosphere
- ‘Stephen Lawyer, who really is a lawyer’
- His wife is called Cher
- People do the most beautiful unhinged shit with paintball cylinders
- Bebe answers phonecalls
- Bebe’s other hobbies include indoor cycling, outdoor cycling, and skydiving
- Precisely none of this was AI
What a treasure to be the person writing this story, congratulations Mr. Moran
It’s a statement of facts, not an accusation. Pet owners (animal slavers) are demented (mentally-ill)–that’s an accusation I stand by. The fact that you find that statement an “accusation” and “weird” betrays your cultural-biases. Why do you think it’s acceptable to enslave animals–why do you think you have a right to do that?
The majority of people do not enslave animals. I would guess it to be a minority who actively engage in the practice. I’m curious now. I’ll edit this after I’ve found some data…
According to the American Veterinary Medical Association 43.7% of American households own a dog and 34.1% own a cat. Isolated that does indeed indicate a minority (though large) are animal-slavers. The figures as presented are probably biased (coming from a business-representative body that profits from animal-slavers) and the households that both own dogs and cats are probably represented twice.
Only 2% of American households choose to enslave birds–that is a minority. I’m not surprised as enslaving birds is particularly depressing. I would accuse bird-slavers of being sadistic as in this species it is extraordinarily cruel. My father and grandfather were bird-slavers and they were both sadistic and cruel people. My curiosity has been sated.
Stopped reading at the second sentence. This is pretty clearly an expression of mental illness itself.