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[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Furries are all cyber security engineers so start each conversation with your favorite windows update so far.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think I’ve only ever met 2 furries in my entire life. I don’t know where this person is that furries are so common. Then again, I’m not a nuclear engineer. Maybe radiation attracts furries?

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know where this person is that furries are so common.

Seattle.

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Lol I was gonna answer this too, even have a dedicated furry bar

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

This is one of those things that might not always be immediately obvious if you’re not plugged into that specific community.

I’ve never met a furry either. But completely by chance, I found out that my city of 160.000 people has a group who does regular furry walks. Basically, they’ll do a walk and meet the public once a month. I had no freaking clue we had that here. It wasn’t a thing I was looking for and never ran into. It was completely by chance that I read an article about it.

So uh, furries are probably closer than you think is my point 😀

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I don’t know where this person is that furries are so common.

Idk maybe he’s at a furry convention?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe tell them you're a taxidermist? Although that might be a different kind of turn on.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 197 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I think he understands the problem considering he mentioned his 200k income at the start of the post.
Fur suits are expensive so hes the perfect money source :D

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 102 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Unlike those industrial engineer peasants.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well you see American manufacturing keeps getting hamstrung by an orange dipshit who thinks he's saving it

[–] gabereal@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's not trying to save it. He's simply creating market fluctuations and buying the dip. He creates conditions that cause investors to worry and stock prices to fall, then he buys when the prices are low and finally he announces that the tariffs are being postponed for 90+ days (that is, into the next financial quarter). Stock prices start to rise again and eventually they return to where they started, like it never happened.

In the meantime, people are losing jobs and their houses, but that's a small price to pay to make him and his inner circle wealthier.

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[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Unironically yes. Lots of variation in pay and prestige among different engineering disciplines. Manufacturing engineers are not typically very well paid from what I’ve seen.

Maybe they want to get a spiderman style radioactive dog bite to turn into their ideal puppy form.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 22 points 3 days ago (7 children)

That went directly over my head. Apparently I’m out of touch. Haven’t dated in many years.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 days ago

A sugar buck?

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Whatever just don't tell Lemmy you're a landlord

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Good. Landlords should be scared.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You got your rent check written up yet boot sucker?

[–] DistrictSIX@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"An nuclear engineer"? That's suspicious grammar for a nuclear engineer.

I was a peer writing tutor at a top engineering school. I would be surprised if an engineer had verb-noun agreement. (That said, my kid was a nuclear engineer and is a great writer, so that is the danger of stereotypes...)

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

This is how you know its not written by chat gpt

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tell em you work for Boeing.

[–] mdurell@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Only if you really want to blow their doors off.

[–] teft@piefed.world 65 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"can I be your fast breeder reactor?"

😂

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In a million years, I never would have guessed that this was an issue.

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

That's because you're not a nuclear engineer.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 51 points 3 days ago (5 children)
[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think there's a large population only because this is inherently niche. And niche things attract niche interest groups in larger quantities.

TLDR FUR FREAK GALORE

[–] deur@feddit.nl 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or the same group of people who were going to be furries (predominately a thing developed on the internet) were going to first be deliberate internet users who then naturally discover lemmy.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Yes.

Tumblr is the crucible in which the furries were spawned. When you think about it Tumblr was the 4chan for women/people who write fan fiction. Wild West vibe.

When Pixar animated that lion on its back with fuck me eyes its been downhill since. They employed the people who humped their stuffed animals and werent told to stop.

Jokes aside I like seeing the different groups that share the similarity of being irritated by centrally controlled forums/ privacy on Lemmy. My kind of weirdos (for the most part)

[–] marzhall@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A friend has made a compelling case that furries are a key indicator species in web communities. If the community hosts furries, it means things are going on there, if it doesn't host furries it's probably not worth your time.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The hacker known as Lemmy?

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[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Atleast from my own experience there is alot of it here. For some reason, top comments about sexual restriction-related posts on Lemmy tend towards the fear of bans coming for furries. Make of that what you will.

Any negative comments about their weirdness will not be met kindly here.

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How does he know who's is a furry and who isn't at a party? Are they always dressed up?

[–] peregrin5@piefed.social 68 points 3 days ago

because he is at a furry party. they are all dressed up. him too.

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In my limited experience, they're pretty up front with it even when they're not wearing a fursuit or furry merch.

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Definitely a Seattle issue. We have a queer furry cidery—the first one in the US!

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

A building turning furries into cider? And people are happy about this?! I mean, we in he US will give miles of leeway to anyone if they check one “minority” box.

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[–] darvocet@infosec.pub 26 points 3 days ago

He's obviously in his furry suit.

[–] Spur4383@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

He should tell them he is a cyber security chad expert. That will stop them!

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