Puck up the cheapest 40lb bag of dogfood you can find they’ll love it and its got the nutrients they need!

Who is going to recognize that name as being after a bug though? Only people who they tell, lol

Do you also get flushed in the face? Seems like some kind of alcohol intolerance. Theres a gene thats common in east asians that can cause this. A vietnamese friend of mine has a similar reaction when he drinks.

Was gonna say, nobody took shit, lol

So great on laundry day

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Ive not taken the time to verify any of the information in this post, but lets assume for the moment that good science has been done and these claims are legit. Lets also take consider other similar research that has been done in the arena of plant and animal “awareness”. Are we approaching a point in the scientific community where some level of awareness ahould be assumed for creatures beyond ourselves? It seems that every time we look close enough at a product of nature (fungus, plants, etc) we discover some new element of what we would call “awareness”. Hell, I’ve even seen claims that certain plants can be anesthetized, with drugs that work on humans no less.

Say that we discovered life as we know it on another planet, and what that would do to our perception of “life” throughout the universe. Once could be a fluke, twice could be a coincidence, but given the scale of our universe if we were to find any life, in our own galaxy especially, it would drastically change our perception of the rarity of life.

Now, consider that we have primate relatives who show many of the some properties of awareness that we do, and the pile of other research pointing to varying levels of “awareness” for virtually everything we look at, including creatures such as planta and fungi. How this hasn’t led to a general acceptance that every “living” thing likely has a subjective experience is a bit beyond me, but I also am not a trained scientist, so maybe someone here can shed some light.

Take solace in the fact that you are part of said nature :)

Totally agreed on the Frutiger style, with Sharper Image being the pure, distilled form of it.

When i think about the “purpose” of a library, I think of it as a place where people can go to learn and be entertained free of charge. If a particular book doesn’t teach anything valuable, nor is it entertaining, I can’t think of any reason why a library should waste its space on it. Thats not to say knowledge shouldnt be saved for future generations, but thats what an archive is for.

I know they havent said what the punishments would be for non-compliance (Fines? Witholding of public services?), but without jail time attached to it, that just tells me the rich folks are gonna pay their way out (as usual), and those without the means are stuck getting totally-not-drafted.

I’ve been using Ground News for the last six months or so and quite like it. It does seem like you may have a misunderstanding of how it works though. Ground News is not, in itself, a “news outlet”, nor does it generate articles, its an aggregator. When viewing a story there is an AI generated summary of all of the articles related to that story, but its generally no more than 3-5 bullet points, and certainly not enough information to form an opinion (nor is it intended to be). The user should read several of the articles and form their own opinion based on that. Further, their bias and factuality gauges use data thats averaged from external organizations, so again, not generated by Ground News itself. They lay it out here:

https://ground.news/rating-system

“You rape em, we scrape em”

(I do not condone this message)

The passage of time is always consistent for the observer, in that a clock next to them will always tick at the same interval. The tidal wave planet from Interstellar is a good example of this, in that only a short time had elapsed for the people on the surface, but back home on earth over 20 years went by. -Edited, didnt explain correcty the first time

Could you explain what you mean by “emitting gravitational radiation”? Gravity is how we perceive distortions in spacetime, the strength of which being determined by the mass of the objects. I understand that orbits can “decay”, but that is not the same as radioactive decay.

I’ve come to realize that everyone is a product of their environment, in both setting and the human body that your conciousness resides in. You might be saying, “duh, you big dumb idiot”, but after REALLY absorbing the concept, I came to realize that people only ever do what they’re “programmed” to do. Its really helped me exercise empathy and reduce my level of frustration towards the people I encounter as I go through life. It’s also helped me be more introspective and suss out the origins of my own behaviors and ways of thinking.

Makes you wonder what happens to a person who now accepts the voices in their head as divine mandate…

To me it looks like something you’d use to easily make a Monkey Fist for throwing line to/from a pier. Though I guess that doesn’t make much sense appearing in mountainous regions, unless they were made in the mountains (proximity to ore?)

Nailed it, haha

HEY THOSE ARE MY EYEHOLES