BY OUR MALICE COMBINED

Like when people start building permanent, densely populated habitations big enough to be considered cities, do they just all independently develop some form of "ready-to-eat convenience food you can just buy off a stall/vendor/etc off the street and eat wherever you find convenient"? The ancient romans had those, to the point where the cheapest rental apartments didn't even have their own kitchens because you'd just buy your meals from the street.

And I know street food vendors of some sort were also a thing in ancient China and I think also Korea and Japan (I don't know the details so I'm not going to guess into more specifics), and it feels far more plausible to me that both places came up with the concept independently than having had the novel idea of "sell hot meal on street/buy hot meal off street" drag its entire ass across their entire known world from one point to the other by the silk road.

They're the pickiest because they only eat things they can catch by plunging into at least six feet of water feet-first and are as close to their maximum carrying capacity as possible, to maximize calories-per-trip.

They're the Least Picky because so long as something fits those parameters, Osprey will go for it.

Babies gain language much earlier than they start talking. They can understand you before they know how to make the right word sounds with their mouths. Speaking, like writing, is a feat of incredible physical coordination that we generally undervalue because it's been muscle memory for years or decades, but it involves a lot of very precise coordinated physical movements that take a lot longer to learn than the words themselves do for someone who's new at this whole having a body thing. Complex language is also not all that critical for baby sign language. To a baby, communicating hunger via crying or via reaching towards your food isn't markedly different to communicating it with a hand gesture, and they don't need particularly sophisticated language skills to do any of those things, so you can start teaching them hand signs pretty much as soon as they have a concept of deliberately communicating with others.

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