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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I'm willing to follow all of you off a cliff.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Did you know, the famous shot of lemmings falling of a cliff in the documentary that started the ideas that lemmings will just die following their peers off a cliff was actually a bunch of documentary makers pushing a bunch of lemming off of it to make a cool shot and not actual lemmings behavior ? You probably did actually...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is this legit? Do you have a source I could read? If this is real that's so effed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can find it on the wikipedia page of the film, but if you search for it on the internet you find a ton of sources https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

heard about it on jre, didn't even attempt to verify, so no sauce but a trust me bro, this version of the story has little enough consequences and aligns with my beliefs enough that I don't mind believing it even if it isn't true

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No offense but that doesn't seem like a good mentality to have...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I head heard that... Super depressing. =(