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Why are you assuming they did this purely for the ants' sake?

Maybe it was just a curiosity, or maybe they just have too much time on their hands, or maybe they wanted to prevent the bunker colony from getting any larger as it could attract other vermin being a food source. (they mention bats in TFA)

Also, how do you know someone's vegan? They tell you.

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That's a really tired joke. Do you know why you hear it so much? Have you ever considered how inundated the world is with carnist culture? Everyday vegans come across media, friends and assumptions about the normalization of eating animals. How do you know that someone is a carnist? They'll tell that dumb "how do you know someone is a vegan" joke.

If by "carnist" you mean omnivore, guilty as charged.

No, "carnist" is ideological rather than concerning diet, one who supports the ideology that it is morally acceptable to eat animals for food. One could be a vegetarian carnist (who does not like the taste) for example.

It's kind of insulting, you think you know my ideology?

Just ignore these people, don't voluntarily enable them to insult/offend you with their zealous idiocy.

I feel like we used to be better at this. There's so much stupidity from the vocal minority getting air time and unwarranted attention now with social media, it's diminished everyone's ability to differentiate the signal from the noise.

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