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According to an old (possibly apocryphal) quote:

Back in the 1980s, Yosemite National Park was having a serious problem with bears: They would wander into campgrounds and break into the garbage bins. This put both bears and people at risk. So the Park Service started installing armored garbage cans that were tricky to open -- you had to swing a latch, align two bits of handle, that sort of thing. But it turns out it's actually quite tricky to get the design of these cans just right. Make it too complex and people can't get them open to put away their garbage in the first place. Said one park ranger, "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."​

Really puts some context to Yogi Bear's claim about being smarter than the average bear.
Really off topic (on my part) and 3 months late. But I couldn't help adding to this. It actually "might" be a true quote.

Back around the same time as this quote, I used to go camping with my parents in Shenandoah National Park. And one thing I always remembered from one of those trips was a park ranger talking to us about the bears and the precautions campers need to take. He then went on to tell us about these new trash cans and how to open them. He then told us that the trash cans were a waste of money because after a week or so the bears figured out how to open them. His theory was the bears just simply watched the people and copied their actions. I have no idea why I always remembered that.

Anyway, sorry for the derailment.
 
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One day before exams
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I mean the fallen Xenophile empire seems to be fanatic collectors of Xeno's, placing them in a little habitat for them.
A place where they can do no possible harm, and where no harm can come to them.
Basically individualist biological Rogue Servitors.

Pacifist + Xenophile Criminal Megacorp, just ruining all your worlds with crime for their profit.
 
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"Conquering the galaxy for your own good!"
I will treat You better than You could ever treat Yourself. I know better what You need.
 
Or spiritualist, materialist, egalitarian.
I think only pacifists and xenophiles are not used for making bad empires.
I made a pacifist/xenophile empire whose entire raison d'etre was to use the devolution beam to turn everyone in the galaxy into presapients and then conserve them because they were also environmentalists.
 
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I will treat You better than You could ever treat Yourself. I know better what You need.

Okay yeah, we need a Yandere Girlfriend Empire Crisis.
 
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I made a pacifist/xenophile empire whose entire raison d'etre was to use the devolution beam to turn everyone in the galaxy into presapients and then conserve them because they were also environmentalists.
This is allowed, yes. But is it pacifist way? Isn't that pacifists should be away from ANY form of aggression?
 
This is allowed, yes. But is it pacifist way? Isn't that pacifists should be away from ANY form of aggression?
Some Stellaris players like to emphasise the "fists" in "pacifists".
 
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