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      W*y ar* pe*ple s* fucking ups*t w*th a b*t of cunting c*nsorship? Sur*ly *t do*sn’t shitting m*tter *f som*one w*nts t* c*nsor s*me of the*r twatting w*rds?

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      I don’t even know who this shit is for. I see the censored memes far more on lemmy than I do any other social media platform. Is this all coming from facebook? Because they themselves are often screenshots of content from tumblr or twitter

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        TikTok is notoriously very strict with censorship, and that leaked into Instagram and Facebook even though they are a bit more lenient.

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        That’s the thing, the censorship doesn’t even remove anything of substance. It’s just speech policing for the policing.

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    My grandpa had a pet racoon way back in the day. He said it was a good pet except it was incapable of managing its mischief and tearing stuff up to see if anything good was inside.

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      I was friends with a young raccoon that was being rehabbed by a family friend. The lil dude was already imprinted on people so he couldn’t be released into the wild. He and I could match each other’s energy and we’d get into so much trouble together. Then he grew up and got fat and lazy. I was very disappointed because he was no longer an agent of chaos and I was.

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        raccoons make great friends but terrible pets. their shit is full of pathogens harmful to humans. smart compared to skunks, same story. adorable friends, destructive little ninjas when you’re not paying attention.

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    I’m reminded of the movie Long Way North where a heavily-accented sailor tells a girl about a dog that lives on the ship: “He is punished. He chews the rigging and steals.”

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    The only close interaction I’ve ever had with a raccoon was when one perched on a fence post and was hissing and swiping at my dog, who was going apeshit. So yeah I can see how someone might confuse them for weird cats.

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    Probably fake story but it’s more likely to domesticate an opossum over a raccoon. Maybe story over the decades changed the animal because human story telling results in many fabrications and hallucination of details.

    Adult raccoons are vicious and territorial cunts. Well at least the one I encountered anyways

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      Anything territorial with a social structure (wolves, horses & boars being great examples of successful domestications, otters and falcons for in-progress domestications and foxes and raccoons good candidates) are prime domestication material as the human can become the social leader and they won’t be as inclined to leave what is their pack’s territory

      That said, it takes thousands of years to fully domesticate something, which is why “semi-domesticated” otters and falcons just sort of help out with hunting without being “friendly” enough to be predictable

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        Foxes are already domesticated. A Russian scientist did it to test what is needed for domestication.

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      my dad had two families of them visit him daily. he got them to do simple tricks for food and they would tap his leg to wake him up when he was asleep on the porch. as long as each family showed up at different times they were peaceful but they would otherwise fight amd one also killed and presumably ate a squirrel.

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      I’ve got family that is on their third pet raccoon. I’m not sure where the last two came from but the first was a baby when they got it. They cut down a tree that had a family of raccoons in it and that one survived so they just… Kept it.

      It was very entertaining but could be an asshole when in heat.

      O, and I worked with a lady that had one too. Apparently they can survive a massive opiate overdose because it ate an entire bottle of painkillers (oxys? Hydros? I forget) while she was at work one day. She said it was stiff like rigor mortis for about 36 hours then eventually just got up and continued on like nothing had happened.

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      Apparently it isn’t that difficult to semi domesticate racoons if you feed them. Like they won’t cuddle on your lap or anything but they also won’t attack you and might tolerate a boop or scritch.