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The_Deplorable says

https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1781720652241846625

It's really strange to me that there are people that think animals don't have some sort of intelligence and autonomy in them. They aren't machines. There was no advantage to approaching the diver, but it did. You could argue it's a defect in its programming, like when a person approaches a bison in Yosemite Park. Is this a defect in our programming, or is this is a soul trying to connect?

https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1781705868913803756

The_Deplorable says

https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1781705868913803756

I'm past my peak. At 30, I could avoid anything, not now at 50+. As this animal ages, it will be killed by the same type of animal it narrowly escaped. I should be dead, 20 years ago. We are not meant to die of old age, we are designed to be killed by another species at some point. That's the real "natural death".

Ceffer says

You get the same effect by looking away or blinking rapidly. In fact, as I write this I'm looking away, and I can see the image.

AI is our doom.

Ceffer says

If you just look at the pic, you see a car in the background with a very strange wheel configuration.

Question is, who are the gate keepers. Most of them engage in stolid misdirection and the real gates are only opened for the so called elites. The rest of us rely on triangulation, projected logic, induction and deduction.
The elites hate that amongst the non bloodline peasants, there are those who can remote view them entirely as they are, in their fetid clouds of predation. The 'elites' try to kill or deceive as many of those as possible, but it is impossible to get them all.

I can fix her!

UkraineIsTotallyFucked says

This was the subject of several Alt History SF novels after the 1997 book "Guns, Germs and Steel" debuted. Food for thought, indeed.

rocketjoe79 says

UkraineIsTotallyFucked says

This was the subject of several Alt History SF novels after the 1997 book "Guns, Germs and Steel" debuted. Food for thought, indeed.

If there was no contact with the "new world", they would have remained in a non technological society until Europe entered as a technological society. Almost all modern advancements like radio, light bulbs (those made vacuum tubes possible), electricity, internal combustion engines, the IC circuit - that was almost all done by Europeans and were all made by European culture.

The reason we ended up with all this technological innovation is because we entered the new world. Now free of church dogma, people were allowed to explore and investigate new ideas instead of being burned at the stake if it was "heresy".

Ceffer says

Interesting theory. Sub-Saharan Africa that never developed out of the stone age had women running around with their boobs out. Same for Aboriginies, Injuns, and Mokes. Europe, on the other hand, created the Industrial Revolution during the era of prude. Even the Arabs and Turks had an advanced society during the peak of boob hiding Islam.

I do think the need for men to prove themselves to get sex has been an important driver of civilization.

Slutty women, prostitutes, and gayness all undermine civilization by undermining men's motive to accomplish.

Typical klutzy female. Almost got snappered in the snapper.

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rocketjoe79 says

UkraineIsTotallyFucked says

This was the subject of several Alt History SF novels after the 1997 book "Guns, Germs and Steel" debuted. Food for thought, indeed.

One of these alternate history novels is "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" (actually published in 1996) by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game fame). Very well written, although you can tell Card ran out of steam at the very end.

He turned his turtle into a stalker.


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No, I don't want any Beni Hana today. Last time, anyway, I got some fingers in the noodles.

Lol, sounds like the Chuck Norris of the Orient.

Dholliday126 says

Even in my twenties I recognized those that were devoid of empathy for their elders, and did not respect their wisdom and experience, but rather mocked them. I have found those folks from back then managed to age without wisdom or useful experiences.

If Karma has a set of rules like the 7 seven deadly sins, I'm sure disrespecting elders is one of them. All of the disrespectful punks I grew up with are all decrepit and have health problems at mid 50.

Off the subject, Japan is worth visiting, but choose the months with nice weather.

Yes, that!

Wife and I went to Japan in August. Don't do that.

Patrick says

Wife and I went to Japan in August.

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Did the wife learn from the Japanese the proper way a woman is supposed to cater to the husband?

Lol, no. But she is always respectful to me. And vice versa.