ElderWendigo @ ElderWendigo @sh.itjust.works

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You can still be a kind of garden hermit if you get certain jobs in science and ecology.

If you enjoyed A Fire Upon the Deep, you should definitely check out the other 2 books. The Children of the Sky is a straightforward sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, more fun with the pack intelligences of the Tines. I really liked the idea of a pack intelligence surviving longer than an individual member in those books. A Deepness in the Sky has a hibernating technological spider civilization and human savants exploited and enslaved as basically hyper focused biological automatons. Also there are inflatable space ships. Working my memory to type this, I realize that I kinda want to read them again.

WTF is this gibberish? Bad AI chat bot.

What I'm saying is that when someone is verbally saying something to you but means something else, that has nothing to do with reading comprehension.

This is where you are wrong.

Lol. Spoken like a LLM struggling to convince us it understands, i.e. lots of words, little substance or insight.

When you wrestle a pig you get covered in mud and the pig enjoys it.

Since you seem to be struggling to understand the concept, here's a few examples: math and science word problems, metaphor, subtext, allegory, koans, poetry, song lyrics, riddles, jokes, sarcasm.

The intent of the question can only be realised via comprehension of non-written concepts, essentially being able to recognise when someone is trying to throw you a curveball.

Dude, hate to break it to you, but that is one of the key skills of reading comprehension.

Maybe they can be easier for adults without familial attachment to leave. But we're talking about a child here trying to build a life, that is an immeasurably more complex and difficult task. Don't water down the organized abuse by claiming it's not a cult.

Obviously you don't have much experience with this church. Not sure how expressing this ignorance adds to the conversation though.

Get out of here with your racist dog whistle bullshit.

You're wrong.

Proceeds to argue the exact same point the parent comment was making. Why have reading comprehension skills just fallen off a cliff amongst the general population here?

Maybe he has a crush on you? I mean that's what I'd think if anyone talked about my hair that often. (Even if I didn't believe he was crushing, I'd mention it every time he brought up repetative comments about my appearance.)

Lol, look into how easy it is to get away from this cult religious organization. It not just the school they'd have to leave, they'd have to escape the church and hope that the church/school is decent enough to allow the student to transfer the credits they've already paid for.

Always has been.

They subsidize soy, oats, and almonds too.

No it's not.

Have any good vegan recipes that don't try to imitate meat or cheese?

Those communities got a little stale when enough people started reporting uptime in decades. Also, unless you're on a flavor that can upgrade the kernel while the system is live, good uptimes these days are just the time between kernel updates.

Given the enthusiasm with which you've been spreading your own bigotry and lies around the rest of this thread, I don't believe you and I regret responding to your comment. I don't think you'll appreciate LeGuin. I'd rather you stay a vocal Rowling fan, you seem to be very representative of that willfully ignorant and hateful lot.

Zoos already deal with this on a regular basis. They are allowed to keep and breed endangered species. They are not allowed to sell them or their parts. They are allowed to ship sperm and eggs to further captive breeding programs. Sometimes hybridization is the only option to preserve any part of the species. But when one zoo has too many of a particular endangered species and maybe not enough of another, they organize trades between zoos to better distribute the supply of what is essentially a good that cannot be legally bought or sold. The animals are explicitly NOT bought or sold between zoos and shouldn't end up in the hands of private individuals.

Selling the rights to hunt an endangered animal is not any different than selling the animal directly. A lawyer might argue that a hybrid of an endangered animal is not endangered. But, these are not ecological stewards and this is absolutely not about species preservation. This isn't even hunting. This is an international conspiracy to profit off of the bloodlust of the ruling class.