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She sighs noisily. Did you find that on my cell phone? I have plenty of useless info like that, I can ask you a few too: how many pistachios can a Galapagos tortoise eat in one sitting? They are therefore taken back into a different room. They are offered green tea and their blindfolds are removed. It takes them a while to readjust to the light, which this time is coming from a light on the ceiling. They are invited to sit down. When the brain is accustomed to lying and engaged in doing so, one of its cerebral structures, the amygdala, reduces its activity.
Yet it is thanks to the amygdala that passive memorization occurs. And knowledge - such as words in a foreign language that you have heard in your sleep - is subconsciously rendered familiar, thereby making it easier to learn afterwards.
The amygdala of honest people therefore had to be active in order for them to remember, without knowing it, these strange responses. For, absurd or inconsequential as they were, the responses could only be formed, or deduced, through reasoning. Seated across from them at a large table were two girls and two guys, all aged under Dressed in sports apparel and with snobby looks on their faces, each of them had a spiral notebook in front of them. One of the young women, who was of African descent, began to speak:.
You want our help, but you know nothing about us! The interrogation reveals that you are either real dumbasses, or hardened spies. We have held a vote. But useful ones. Yes, we can help you. But our support will not be an act of charity, it must correspond to our objectives. So you might as well get to know those objectives before we move forward together. We are The Veganistas. No leather, fur, wool, silk, pearls, mother-of-pearl, horns or anything that comes from an animal for our clothes.
