You have a time machine with a single round trip. You hate everyone. And you are lazy. What is the least you can do to completely screw over the world with your one trip through time? (lemmy.world)

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Make it a good one.

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[-] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

Corvids, in general, but ravens seem to be the most intelligent of the bunch.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Crows are really communal though so might be a better bet for human like intelligence in the long run. Magpies too, not because they'd help but because they are both intelligent and total jerks so even the eventual crow people wouldn't get to be happy thus maximizing the chaos.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 17 hours ago

That's a really good point; social animals will get farther.

Crows, then.

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