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I'm pretty sure that only applies due to a majority of people being morons. There's a vast gap between the 2% most intelligent, 1/50, and the average intelligence.

Also please put digital text on white on black instead of the other way around

black on white, ew

I would help this guy describe the sensation as a "squelch".

I also used to hear my heartbeat in my ears pretty much all the time and at 18 had "the blood pressure or an 80-year old woman" but since I went wheat and dairy free I've none of that.

"Gluten-free" isn't just a Karen fad. I used to very much believe so, until I read about NCGS and tried an GFCF diet. (Gluten free casein free.) I also avoid all wheat derived products, some of which are labeled as gluten-free. It's a bitch to hunt down basic ham because most of it here in Europe is processed with dextrose made from wheat, whereas in the US, they also use dextrose but it's derived from corn.

Well I'd say few friends then whole lot of trolls. Some other birds have begun taking notice, but I'm not going to feed the seagulls. (Although they're not as dumb as they look and can live several decades.)

Basically there was a nesting pair or crows on top of a building I lived next to, and I lived on the sixth floor. So I began to mimic their head movements, to line myself with the position of their beak. Mirroring, you know.

Then it took a while and I got them to come get some opportunistic foods from the windowsill and now they just remember me. They had a nestling at one point, definitely. There were three, imo.

Magpies there's loads can't keep track. One fat one though, he was a proper fatty boom batty one spring when I'd been leaving out basically whole bags of meatballs, like 400g a bit shy of a pound. I was sort of proud, he/she looked pretty healthy, despite the harsh winter.

I have the images in my old phone I see if I'll care enough to post some.

Idk if magpies are assholes, per se. Definitely eager, I would say. The crows are always having trouble with them. I have trouble not imagining it as WWII bombers (the crows) getting harassed by multiple smaller bogies (the magpies).

It'd be sweeter if I had a house and could arrange a spot to do it reliably. Now its just me relying on them spotting me. But it's kinda fun, as sometimes when I'm scooting/cycling to the store, Muninn will glide next to me a bit to remind me he's there and to get him something as well.

I don't always buy them meatballs and there's been plenty of bans for bird feeding.

In my last apartment I accidentally taught a squirrel to plunder aparments, because I fed the crows from my windowsill.

Then I got fed up with finding squirrel poop in my kitchen so one time I caught him in a large see through moving box and put him in time out for a few hours. (I made sure there were s few twigs, water and some food in the box.) I don't know whether he leaned his lesson, but the crows certainly learned and followed me despite the move. I only moved like 150 meters as the crow flies, hehe. So it was easy of them to still follow me while not needing to change where they nested.

I'm sort of coloured like a big black crow often, as well. Gray and black.

But sometimes it's kinda hard to know whether I'm imagining them having followed me and just looking at some random crows. As sometimes they follow me even when I take the bus.

But I go to supermarkets which are like 2-4km again as the crow flies (pun's getting old tho). So it's reasonable they do follow me. Especially in winter when it's hard for them to find food, not as much in the summer.

Also magpies and a blackbird, I think but less so. The magpies don't follow as far, but there's more of them and they're more nimble, so if I feed the crows near my house, the magpies might disturb them. Which is why I feel like they follow me to the stores a bit further away.

Idk it's not too empirical but I'm definitely karmically positive when it comes to crows.

My ultimate fantasy would be to train them well enough to perch on the sleeves. That would be rad, but I don't believe it's realistic.

Hugin and Munin Fly every day Over all the world; I worry for Hugin That he might not return, But I worry more for Munin

— From Grímnismál

Oh well. Read about it now, and realised you're right, I wasn't aware, but now that I recall, people have memed about him a lot to me because I'm a bit of a crow fanatic as well.

I've friend crows. They follow me around and I give them meatballs when I visit the store.

I call this one Muninn Blackbreast.

You're gonna get tired of repeating this in about, oh, 20 years.

I'm speaking from experience.

You're entirely correct, just to be clear. You're just gonna get tired of repeating it.

Sod's law, innit?

we're talking about your shitty leaders

From my last comment:

I'm in the Finnish reserves and I'm laughing at GIFs of orcs getting deleted in Ukraine. I'm ready to see you at the border, buddy. Fucking bring it.

From there comment before that:

Oh no. I don't live in the developing world like the US or Russia. Eww. Do you?

Soooo...

But oooh you're a Fin

And you're a Rus? That's not how English works, back to school buddy.

Guess cyka got a bit offended at me saying I'm giggling at all the gifs of silly little orcs in Ukraine blowing up, and now you can't control your emotions, showing everyone you indeed are Russian and very easily upset.

You're too sensitive, Vanja. :(

I guess it's supposed to distinguish from biomechanical eugenics where we modify chromosomes and whatnot

Uh, I don't think so... I think when people say "eugenics", they think of Nazis and concentration camps, "undesirables" and "the Final Solution", not CRISPR.

I think the "soft" is literally just there to soften the impact of the word "eugenics". There's nothing "soft" about this.

Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/ yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well' and -γενής (genḗs) 'born, come into being, growing/grown')[1] is a set of largely discredited beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.[2][3][4] Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter the frequency of various human phenotypes by inhibiting the fertility of those considered inferior, or promoting that of those considered superior.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

It's literally what they are doing.

He is a saint compared to that mass murderer.

Oh okay you're a Russian troll.

You're gonna argue that, obviously. Reality doesn't matter and the fact that they got the prisoners reduced by ~98% doesn't matter and you literally writing "Putin is a saint compared to Obama" won't matter.

"Deflecting" from what, exactly? From me arguing that you're equating all US leaders? That's exactly what we're doing.

Your argument is that "all US leaders are unemotional mass murderers and to be equated morally", because Ruski propaganda at the moment wants Krasnov/Trump to not seem as the shitshow he and his government is.

I'm in the Finnish reserves and I'm laughing at GIFs of orcs getting deleted in Ukraine. I'm ready to see you at the border, buddy. Fucking bring it.

Yeah. Some places.

They are just as guilty

No they're not. They might be guilty, but they're clearly not equally guilty, when one side is trying to shut down the camp and one is trying to expand it to hold 30,000.

You can't be so naive as to think that presidents are automatically autocrats, and that Obama and Biden "didn't really" want to close Gitmo?

I wouldn't be surprised if you equated Obama to Putin next. Which would give away your allegiance pretty efficiently.

I'm glad Trump is expediating the inevitable downfall of your country,

Oh no. I don't live in the developing world like the US or Russia. Eww. Do you?

Also fuck off with the "soft eugenics".

Eugenics is eugenics.

But it isn't the clever. It's the rich and uncaring.

Uhm, no, not the same thing.

That's like saying "pasta" is the same as "spaghetti". Spaghetti is pasta, like jackdaw is a crow, but "crow" is contextual. Where I live, it means the European hooded crow, but in Australia, it wouldn't. Just like pasta can refer to spaghetti or macaroni.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow

A crow is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.

We Finns actually also practice it.

Not too common, but definitely not unheard of.

Ant hill = muurahaispesä , to sit = istuu/istua istu*

Look it up in YT I'm sure there's more than enough results

Idk man. Gitmo is a thing yeah but don't pretend everyone has the same attitude towards it.

Under Bush and the war on terror, it had like 680 people. Then Obama tried closing it, got the population reduced to 41. Then Krasnov ordered it kept indefinitely open. Biden tried closing it. Now it's at 15 prisoners, but Uncle Shitpants has just signed a memorandum for it to expanded to be able to house 30,000, run by the Gestap... uh, sorry, my English... I meant "ICE" .

You are right in that its hypocritical, but two wrongs don't make a right man.

Her being Hispanic didn’t have any meaningful impact to the story, so why not just let her character be white? If they did it to make the film more appealing to Hispanic viewers, then surely an actually Hispanic actor would have been a better fit. White actors have historically been given distinctly non-white roles just because Hollywood is afraid of melanin.

That's the modern version of Lady Acting is Illegal | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats

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