To some species like us humans or whales the rat mode is only during fetal stage, while for other like cats and bear they remain in rat mode shortly after birth before going separate ways.

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:pete: Some people never leave rat mode.

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just give him a few decades, he’ll enter toad mode like all the other old asshole politicians

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Or turtle mode

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phylogeny does not recapitulate ontogeny, that was debunked over 50 years ago

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:jesse-wtf:

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ok but a lot of things do go rat mode

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wait till you learn about fish mode :smoking-fish:

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We shouldn’t have left the waters massive blunder

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My rat stage was when I worked as an intern for an HR company

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