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If you’re spending upwards of $1000 on a few days you’re probably rich.
If you’re spending upwards of $1000 on a few days you’re probably rich.
Bit late to the party, but either Mortal Engines, the Young James Bond series, or Michelle Paver’s Chroncal’s of Ancient Darkness. They were all very engaging and transformative to a young me.
I probably remember parts of Young James bond the best, there’s parts about leeches that really stuck with me. I can still remember Mortal Engines as a whole in great detail, the concept and descriptions of the city chases are fantastic.
Yes, a lot of humanity only cares about reproduction. But we’ve also elevated ourselves to creat art, science, music, etc.
I can’t know for sure what animals care about, but I can make an educated guess based on evidence and observations. Most animals haven’t got past the “find food, survive, reproduce” mindset - at least not much more than that, maybe add entertainment to pass the time. There’s documentation of dolphins getting high recreationally.
Pretty much, some animals have other have a slightly varied goal set, but none are able to do anything close to our achievements. Which are mostly based around intelligence as we’re not physically gifted.
Obviously not immediately, I never said that. If we had the ability to use sonar for the same amount of time, we’d be better at it and we soon will be better at it in less time than evolution allowed because our creativity and intelligence lets us advance faster than evolution.
Does the fact we learned how to use sonar without the natural evolved ability prove that we’re smarter?
Maybe content was the wrong word, animals just don’t care about advancing technology or growing. Most animals only care about reproduction, that’s their lives goal. Salmon literally spend their entire lives, growing up, leaving home, going back home to mate, and dies.
I’m not sure what your point is anymore, are you still campainging that animals are smarter than us? Because they’re not, they may be better at filling certain niches, but our niche is literally being smart. There are intelligent species but none have come close to what we can achieve with our brains. We sacrificed primate stretch and agility for higher brain power.
Because it’s not intelligence. Our apposable thumbs aren’t an indicator of intelligence, what we decide, with our brains, to do with those thumbs is intelligence. Just like brain size isn’t an indicator, sperm whales have the largest brain on the planet yet we are better at applying ours. And a crow’s brain is smaller than a child but it’s commenly understood they’re smarter than a 4 year old.
Dog’s use of their nose are signs of intelligence but not the nose in and of itself. It shows that they’re intelligent, but clearly not more so than humans, who still have more complex relationships, language, learning ability, etc. The smelling of diseases isn’t intelligence, they don’t learn it, they can just do it. It’s a natural evolved ability, like better hearing. Animals and humans using their brains to learn is a measure of intelligence and it’s faster than evolution. It’s not like we couldn’t use smell to communicate if we had the ability.
I never said anything other than intelligence is meaningless, but in this case, it’s largely meaningless as a measure of intelligence past the comparitivly simple form of communication smell is used as. I’m not saying animals are unintelligent, we’re just more intelligent. It’s more like;
Human has ability = what we do with it is a measure of intelligence.
Animal has ability = what they do with it is a measure of intelligence and we’d do more with it if we had the ability, because our intelligence makes us more curious and inventive. Most animals are content with the natural order, if humans could smell disease we’d use it to advance our medicine.
Suzuki and his colleagues found that whale songs convey less than one bit of information per second. By comparison, humans speaking English generate 10 bits of information for each word spoken
I understand some animals, especially mammals like whales, dolphins, and primates have complex languages. But ours is still more advanced. They just have no reason for their language to become more complex when all they need to do is eat and mate.
Animal communication is very basic compared to ours’ is just a blatantly false statement.
It’s not, it’s proven in the study you linked.
And as for smell, I would consider that an ability/skill, not intelligence. Monkeys aren’t smarter than us because they can climb trees faster than us, dolphins aren’t smarter than us because they’re more adapted to swimming. Even cats aren’t smarter than us based on their faster reaction speeds. Intelligence relies on brain power.
And it’s not like dolphins could learn whale language. Animal communication is very basic compared to ours.
I think it’s undeniable that we’re the most intelligent and capable species on the planet and not just because of apposable thumbs. Maybe some of the smartest animals are smarter than the dumbest humans, but we have a huge range.
No other brain works the way ours does, other primates and some dolphins/whales come close with their ingenuity and stuff but obviously millions of years behind us.
Had they every met before? If cats grow up together of course they’ll be nicer/more familiar.
RDR2 is fucking beautiful, GTA4 looked great at the time, and GTA5 probably looks the worst of each respective time/release but it came out at the end of the 360 era so couldn’t be as graphically groundbreaking as their other games while growing the complexity of the world. But it still looks great, even today.
The characters in GTA5 and RDR2 saw a massive upgrade, everyone looks hyper realistic. Holy crap I want to play RDR2 again, so gorgeous.
Most of it is contained to Reddit related communities, just block them if you don’t want to see the downfall of Reddit in real time.
I just sleep like shit, 23 and wake up most nights to pee, then a couple times just because and I’ll stay awake an hour or so each time. I fucking hate my body.
Piano/keyboard is super easy, use a marker to write the notes on the keys and then it’s just doing what any YouTube video tells you to do.
I’ll be a bit scared doing that, with all the instances I’ve been thinking how easy it will be to have malware links. How is shi.t.justwo.rks or whatever less random than a malicious link?
You’re talking like you’re not still a teen, your teenage years have been the only years you’ve been able to change.
Thinking people are hot is cringe?
I’m more addicted to my phone, it’s just lemmy is what’s easiest to continuously scroll through at this point.
Nope.
What makes you think I’m upset? This is just a random opinion that came to mind when I saw your post.
Nah, get one about your interests if you care about expressing yourself on your water bottle. I’d much rather talk to someone who had a train on their water bottle than this. And that’s coming from a bi guy, it’s not a phobia, but this screams “I’m boring” to me.
I’m sure some middle class people can afford to go to burning man. But you’re being wilfully ignorant if you think burning man isn’t catered to the rich. It’s almost purely a status symbol event. It’s definitely where people go to show off their lavish wealth and take pictures for Instagram. I’m pretty sure if they took a survey 80%+ would be wealthy people.
I’m middle class, and I’m spending a couple hundred dollars on my holiday this week, I almost can’t fathom spending thousands living in a tent in a desert.
But you’re right, the middle class has been eroded. What was considered middle class in 1970 would be rich today. That’s just because most people are worse off financially.