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[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh brother. I'm not a landlord any more but if I was I'm sure I'd be petrified

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours 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?

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours 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 😀

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

Seattle.

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

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

Idk maybe he’s at a furry convention?

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

Good. Landlords should be scared.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago
[–] DistrictSIX@lemmy.zip 14 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

This is how you know its not written by chat gpt

[–] ProfessorPeregrine@reddthat.com 7 points 18 hours ago

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...)

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tell em you work for Boeing.

[–] mdurell@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Only if you really want to blow their doors off.

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 12 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

but it's queer, so you know... it's really well designed, clean, the neighbors love it....

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Which one? Over by cap hill?

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

It’s called Slightly Furry. It’s in north Becon Hill, just north of I-90 right off the exit!

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 191 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 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 98 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Unlike those industrial engineer peasants.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day 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.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] gabereal@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day 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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Maybe they want to get a spiderman style radioactive dog bite to turn into their ideal puppy form.

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[–] teft@piefed.world 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"can I be your fast breeder reactor?"

😂

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I wonder if they'd help me work out a system to pump some hot waste fluids in my bedroom.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 46 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] sxan@midwest.social 50 points 1 day ago (10 children)
[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day 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

[–] marzhall@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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.

[–] deur@feddit.nl 24 points 1 day ago (8 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.

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[–] darvocet 25 points 1 day ago

He's obviously in his furry suit.

[–] Spur4383@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

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

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