I generally try to avoid octopuses - in the sense of touching them, eating them, or committing to a spelling of the plural word - but I am fascinated by how they basically prove we absolutely could make invisibility cloaks irl if we really tried to
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Learning about how fucking intelligent octopuses are was the absolute worst. They were my favorite seafood. I'm still POed about the whole thing.
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Replying to @palmtreelephant @arthur_affect
I don't know if it matters but calamari is squid, not octopus.
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Replying to @TheShyWoof
Squid are also very intelligent, for what it's worth, and in some ways possibly more intelligent than octopuses (there are species of squid that engage in cooperative hunting behavior, while octopuses seem to be completely asocial)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheShyWoof
There aren't any stories about squid doing creepily humanlike things like figuring out tool use etc. the way octopuses have But that may just because it's so much harder to keep squid in captivity to study Because they're really vicious motherfuckers
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But, you know, that might be a reason not to feel bad about eating them Like you really know if the squid were big enough it would have absolutely no problem eating you
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