Feydaikin

Did this once when I was a kid. Cannot recommend! They taste nothing like the smell.

Nukes, nukes, nukes! If you’re gonna use them, use them. If not, please shut the hell up about them.

Having listened to that spiel since childhood hasn’t made me more afraid of them. Quite the opposite and fucking tired.

Nothing is ever so bad it can’t get worse.

Probably not a common saying, but it’s my saying. And it has proven true time and again.

Rise Against- This is letting go

Hmm… I’d try running it through Steam.

I feel like I’ve generally had better results with Steam than Lutris.

What are you playing on atm?

Heresy!

If you can salvage enough of the blown-up ones, you can make your own.

Fuck that is foul.

If you’ve already tried setting up Win 10, Mint should be downright enjoyable. It’s much more user friendly in my humble opinion.

Yep, broken concentration fucks me up completely.

Mint has treated me just fine since I converted.

I’m not proficient with Linux whatsoever, but Mint has literally been the most newbie user-friendly OS I have tried to date. So Windows can suck it.

For gaming, Steam runs things great. And for other things like GOG, Battle.net, Lutris has server me well. Proton does a good job.

I’d be assuming either way.

The question is interesting, but I can’t claim to have an educated opinion on the matter. Barely an informed one, really.

If we took the baseline human and and baseline crow, disregarding anomalous individuals deemed hyper intelligent and so on. I’d venture we’re more on par than we realize. But I’d probably also lean towards humans having a slight edge. Though I have little to base it on other than us already being fairly anomalous simians.

How much of that do you think is inherent intelligence and how much is nurture?

We spend years helping and teaching our offspring the most basic of functions and how to communicate. We’ve taught other species very basic communication skills as well, like Coco the gorilla. Hell, my own dog knew how to tell me when he had to pee. And that’s nurture, but it does speak to a certain potential.

I’m no expert on this subject. But I’m not closed off to the possibility that other species might be inherently more intelligent than us. As intelligence is mostly measured in ones ability to learn through observation and trial and error. And crows happen to display quite an aptitude for this that I don’t know if we can even call it niche.

Don’t mistake inability with lack of intelligence.

Crows haven’t had the need to evolve the same way we did. They can fly and thus don’t need jumbojets and such.

There’s plenty of animals that show signs of extremely high intelligence. But if you’re measuring an animals intelligence by it’s ability to build a functional nuclear reactor, it will fail miserably. As would most humans for that matter.

Which is why we measure intelligence with problem solving skills. And Crows have shown themselves remarkable at problem solving.

Like utilizing waterdisplacement to reach water, Cars to crack nuts and even basic bartering skills to trade trinkets for food with other species (like humans).

Crows, in general, are very smart. Not all humans are.

Future headlines right there.

Underground tribes living off of the mushrooms we can cultivate. Waging war on other tribes for ressources.

Basically ‘Metro 2033’, but less cool.

Well, that depends. Most of my pants and shirts and such last a long time.

But I go through socks and boxers pretty damned fast.

Nice

Hilarious