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i hate star trek because every time theyre like âoh my god the skringles have broken the crankus treaty with the skronglies which mean the flongles are starving because they cant get binkbonk berriesâ and every time im like âoh my god they cant get binkbonk berriesâŚâ
This post came across my dash at the most serendipitous time: I saw it while watching DS9, paused it, read the post out to my wife, we both had a mild chuckle, I unpaused the episode, only for an alien merchant to dramatically explain to Quark that she couldnât sell him 100,000 vats of Tulaberry wine, because there werenât enough Tulaberries on the planet. Of course leading to my wife screeching with absolute delight âoh no! Quark canât get his binkbonk berries!â
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The idea that hive minds in sci-fi have queens or some other central apparatus like a mother ship makes no sense at all. That completely defeats the purpose of a hive mind, which is decentralization.Â
It speaks to kind of society we live in where itâs generally assumed that unity is achieved through domination only.Â
The way we talk about bees and ants suffers from this too. The queen in an ant colony or beehive plays an important role but doesnât do Any actual leadership. All the coordination bees and ants do is completely decentralized. Iâve always thought it was funny how much people project our society onto nature.
my buddy and I were crawling some servers on gmod one day, just dinking around and being mild nuisances. we found one server where everyone had some ridiculous rank/titleâvarious mythical creatures and wizards and stuff. We bothered someone badly enough (probably made a big mess of barrels or something) that we got put in jail, but we werenât really interested in playing gmod as much as just goofing off, so we hung around the server for a while. the residents were chatting pretty casually, until someone, in a frantic tone, says âJanus is coming! We need to get this place cleaned up!â Janus logs in, and he has the title of God. Someone sheepishly asks âhey whatâs up Janus?â Janus replies with an ear-splittingly loud buzzing static noise that drowns every sound on the server out.
me and my buddy absolutely lost our minds
Iâve heard the theory that Kirkâs logs just get circulated round headquarters for lulz before being dumped in the circular file as obvious fabrications by someone bored with a frontier posting.
âHey, have you seen this one? He says he fought Apollo.â
âWhat, the old earth probe?â
âTry the old earth GOD!â
âHilarious! Classic Kirk! Thatâs better than the time when he was transported to an evil dimenison.â
The reason why in The Naked Now it was Riker who remembered that the previous polywater infection had happened is that heâs the sort of person who would read The Hilarious Adventures of Captain Kirk for fun.
I especially like this idea because of the implication that all the other captains in Starfleet are reporting perfectly ordinary experiences like visiting a space station, dropping off supplies at a colony, bit of a stand-off with some Klingons in disputed space but got out of it unscathed - and then thereâs Kirk all, âsorry guys weâve been off course this week because my first officer seriously needed to get laid (LIKE YOU HAVE NO IDEA MY NECK STILL HURTS)â and âlet me tell you about the Chicago Gangster planetâ and âWHIPPED AND THROWN IN JAIL BY SPACE NAZIS.â
I always preferred the idea that every single Constitution-class starship of the Kirk era was running into all kinds of insane shit and so the Enterpriseâs adventures mostly just got lost in the shuffle.
âSir, Starbase 12 reports a flock of space sharks cruising through the system. Â Theyâre worried about them chewing on the antennae.â
âCan we get the Hood over there to monitor their path and shoo them off if need be?â
âNo can do sir, Hood called in two days ago, says the Captain took his security detail down to the local surface to fight an army of evil komodo dragons.â
âDamn. Â What about the Valiant?â
âCaptain says sheâs currently engaged in a duel of wits with a clone of Bismarck.â
âLike the battleship?â
âNo sir, a clone of Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor from the 1900s.â
âIâm scared to ask, but whereâs the Potemkin?â
âLast reported in pursuit of a super-intelligent shade of blue.â
âGodâs sake. Â What about the Enterprise, are they available?â
sasuke in the higher up hokage meetings after naruto pardoned him even though everyone in the village hates his ass making eye contact with shikamaru glaring holes in him across the room
2000 years later: âThe strange glyphs appearing on gravestones from the early 21st century onward remain a mystery. These astoundingly complex patterns (no two exactly the same) have been found on many other 21st century artifacts, and are believed to have religious significance. Recovered images suggest they were probably sacred to the ancient North American god, Apple, and were meant to ensure that the departed would continue to be financially successful in the afterlife.â
yuh. They say stuff all the time like âthe ancient cave art was ritualistic, to capture the spirits of the animals and insure a successful huntâ and Iâm always like, âno chance they were doing it for education or entertainment hunh? No humans have ever done illustration for the purposes of storytelling, training, or just plain looking at cool shit hunh? just has to be weird spiritual mumbo jumbo because they are ancient people i guessâ. Mostly white men coming up with this insistence on esoteric explanations.
One of my favorite examples of this is these ancient people in N. America who left behind some houses that were small domes. Obsidian blades were found in the ceiling, stuck up above the like, support poles or whatever near the center point of the dome. The first archeologists said âclearly these people were sun worshipers who believed keeping their blades close to the sun kept them sharpâ
Until they finally got a couple women on site who looked around and instantly went âyeah, you got a whole family living in a single large room, you got little kids and sharp knives, you put the knives on the highest shelf you can.â
Or a first nations tribe who had a yearly ritual where they spread out and caught all the snakes they could and brought them to a field and had a big party and released them to ensure a bountiful harvest. âoh these primitive people and their snake religionâ tends to be the interpretation. Only they were agriculturalists, they cultivated grain fields, and guess what? I mean this is only my own surmise, but it seems to me that if you have a huge grain field, and you add a bunch of rodent-eating predators to it, you probably end the harvest with a lot more grain, ey?
And why make a ritual out of it? Thatâs people. There are things like public snake hunts in todayâs world, where people get together and try to hunt as many of an invasive snake species as possible, and guess what? These modern humans turn this big snake hunt activity into a ritual, where every year itâs a big party with drinking and contests and singing and shit. Because people. Are like that.
Always drives me crazy that every tool, activity, or carving is immediately assigned some ridiculous spiritual explanation with basically no proof.
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In recent years, Amazon.com Inc has killed or undermined privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 states, as the e-commerce giant amassed a lucrative trove of personal data on millions of American consumers.
Amazon executives and staffers detail these lobbying victories in confidential documents reviewed by Reuters.
In Virginia, the company boosted political donations tenfold over four years before persuading lawmakers this year to pass an industry-friendly privacy bill that Amazon itself drafted. In California, the company stifled proposed restrictions on the industryâs collection and sharing of consumer voice recordings gathered by tech devices. And in its home state of Washington, Amazon won so many exemptions and amendments to a bill regulating biometric data, such as voice recordings or facial scans, that the resulting 2017 law had âlittle, if anyâ impact on its practices, according to an internal Amazon document.
The architect of this under-the-radar campaign to smother privacy protections has been Jay Carney, who previously served as communications director for Joe Biden, when Biden was vice president, and as press secretary for President Barack Obama. Hired by Amazon in 2015, Carney reported to founder Jeff Bezos and built a lobbying and public-policy juggernaut that has grown from two dozen employees to about 250, according to Amazon documents and two former employees with knowledge of recent staffingâŚ
Amazonâs lobbying against privacy protections aims to preserve the companyâs access to detailed consumer data that has fueled its explosive online-retailing growth and provided an advantage in emerging technologies, according to the Amazon documents and former employees. The data Amazon amasses includes Alexa voice recordings; videos from home-camera systems; personal health data from fitness trackers; and data on consumersâ web-searching and buying habits from its e-commerce businessâŚ
One [journalist] found that Amazon had more than 90,000 recordings Alexa devices made of the reporterâs family members since 2017. In some, young children are heard asking questions about sexual anatomy, including: âAlexa, what is a vagina?â (See related article.)âŚ
As executives edited the draft, Herdener summed up a central goal in a margin note: âWe want policymakers and press to fear us,â he wrote. He described this desire as a âmantraâ that had united department leaders in a Washington strategy session.
Iâll say it again: if you own an Alexa, Echo, Ring, or anything else of that sort, you should destroy it right now. Iâm 100% serious, stop what youâre doing and break it apart right now
like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee
They vocalize anger, sadness, or happiness in response to things
they are scary smart at solving puzzles
some crows stay with their mates until one of them dies
they can remember faces
SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT. They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows. Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag. But the nice guys with masks they left alone. THEN, OH WEâRE NOT DONE, NO SIR crows that WERENâT EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight. THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES.
They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns.
A colleague of my dadâs lives next to a lake, and looked out the window one morning to see a duck trapped in the ice. A crow swooped down. âOh hell,â she thought, expecting carnage, because crows are opportunists. But the crow chipped at the ice with its beak until the duck was free.
Idk of this counts but a few crows saved me from a magpie swooping attack once ,theyâre bros who can tell when magpies are being unreasonable and need to chill
I love crows so damn much. When I was fifteen, I hit a pretty serious bout of depression, to the point I was in my room for months. Well, a family of crows made a nest in a tree outside my window. There were two parents and two chicks. One chick was healthy and strong. One was weak, and had a caw like something being strained. It sounded more like a rooster crowing and so my parents jokingly named him âBuckâ.Well⌠months passed and Buckâs sibling was taught to fly. His parents focused on the sibling because the sibling was strong. The father stayed behind to try and teach Buck, but I saw him try to fly, fail, and crash to the floor. His father helped him back up into the tree.
Every day, I would watch Buck from my window until one day I opened it and started talking to him. He was small and gangly and he couldnât caw right. His feathers were all over the place and I felt a kinship. So I made a deal with him. I told him that if he could do it, if he could fly, then I could find the strength to get up. Well⌠near the end of the season, after talking with him every day, I finally saw him get out of the nest. He went to the edge of his branch, braced himself, and jumped⌠and just before he hit the ground, he soared back up into the sky. I cheered harder than I ever had before.
That winter, Buck left the area. I was crestfallen. I felt like Iâd lost a friend. But I was so damn proud of him.Â
Cut to the next spring? Iâm walking up the driveway one day when suddenly I hear a sound⌠a broken caw. I look up, and Buck is sitting in a tree above my head. He stared at me and puffed his feathers, then hopped down in front of me and cawed again. I was so damn thrilled, and I told him how proud I was of him. He ruffled his feathers and then soared off into his old tree.Â
That summer? I heard two broken caws. One from Buck⌠and one from his chick.
Cut to ten years later? We have a family of crows who all have a very distinct caw and they come here and spend every spring, summer, and fall on our property. Buck still greets me every spring.
this one morning i kept hearing really loud caws, i remember it was like 5am, LIKE REALLY LOUD AND ANNOYING AND AGGRESSIVE, so loud that i could hear it through a closed window, and i eventually went outside to check it out. there was a crow on my front lawn, it had an injury on its head and couldnât fly and there were two other crows circling right above it, and they were cawing like mad.Â
i tried to get close and take a better look and one of them dived super low and tried to attack me. so i went back in the house and chopped some sliced raw meat and tossed it at him from a distance.
a few more times later, very soon after, they could tell i was trying to help, and did not attack me. i was âallowedâ to walk up close and pick him up, he couldnât drink water properly so i had to dip my finger in a bowl and stick it in his mouth.
i did this few times a day and it went on for about a week before he disappeared, i thought he recovered and left, but he came back the next day and lands on me, and i see him around the block quite often, and he would come sit on my shoulder for a few minutes and then fly away again. i feel like iâve adopted a son.
Like, I wouldnât want to be on bad terms with a crow, but they are a really smart animal, they arenât scary You just want to be nice to them because they will know and they will remember, and they will pay you back if you treat them a certain way.
As a side note, I volunteered at a rehab (Hope for Wildlife), where they were rehabbing a crow with a broken wingâwho was named Russell Crow. He kept pulling his bandage off so a sleeve was cut off some old clothing and put on him like a little sweater.Â
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âOn March 11, 889 CE, 17 year-old Emperor Uda wrote:Â
âOn the 6th day of the 2nd Month of the First Year of the Kampo era. Taking a moment of my free time, I wish to express my joy of the cat. It arrived by boat as a gift to the late Emperor, received from the hands of Minamoto no Kuwasahi.Â
The color of its fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. It has an air about it, similar to Kanno. Its length is 5 sun, and its height is 6 sun. I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.
In rebellion, it narrows its eyes and extends its needles. It shows its back.
When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. you cannot see its feet. Itâs as if it were a circular Bi disk. When it stands, its cry expresses profound loneliness, like a black dragon floating above the clouds.
By nature, it stalks birds. It lowers its head and works its tail. It can extend its spine to raise its height by at least 2 sun. Its color allows it to disappear at night. I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.ââ
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