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127 on April 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks...

It's sheep behavior. Looking out only for themselves and always going with the flock to hide themselves from risk. What is causing it? I would say incentives.

Spivak on April 27, 2025 [–]

Fear of predators being the obvious one if we're going with the sheep metaphor.

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