https://youtu.be/N_KeXfd5OHI

“he who expects the Spanish inquisition is a liar.”

“evil” is the keyword there. The Dax seek consent and the Trill conduct a lengthy vetting process to be joined.

Time well spent if you ask me.

Indeed! Are we suddenly going to stop eating things because they can feel stuff? Being eaten is as much apart of nature as photosynthesis. It’s not sentience where you should be drawing the line it’s sapience.

Any animal that flees from being eaten probably feels pain. This is not the high bar you vegans think it is. Just accept that we are the top of the food chain already.

I mean, the water does have to come from SOMEWHERE, so strictly speaking that way of looking at it is not wrong, just ignoring a few steps.

a more fun fact is that Livyatan was almost certainly alive at the same time as Megalodon. Given that modern Orcas regularly prey on Great white sharks, a similar dynamic was probably at play in the late Miocene