The way that makes the most sense for me is intelligence is related to external learning (books, from others, from detailed study of things, etc) whereas wisdom comes primarily from internal observation (self-reflection, personal experience, situational awareness, etc.)

From doctor who, a species that was in stasis underground for eons.

Definitely the right choice.

Clara is a brunette, I just want to clarify that in case people get confused about which meme. :) (It took me a sec)

Made the mistake of watching the other one recently.

Don’t be like me. There is no sequel.

But also, I’m still mad they left that kid to die in the mineshaft because they couldn’t be bothered with continuity… that would have almost maybe sort of possibly redeemed some of the movie… a tiny bit.

Not really, no, though there are logging operations and they sometimes ruin large swaths of land by planting shit like a whole forest of pine where there used to be a healthy mixed forest.

This area is pretty heavily wooded yet, though. The fields that are here are old, generations back stuff with more natural boundaries, rows of wind-break trees between fields and the like, swampy areas left in field corners. We aren’t really adding new farmland here either, in fact there are incentive programs to reforest former farmland. Often old farmland is used for development.

We do pull stuff out if we are developing the property, sure, but otherwise no, most land is left pretty natural.

That happens in parts of the US that actually have those things, just not in the super flat bits that don’t have anything interesting in them to use as a boundary to begin with. Kinda hard to break things up by rivers or ridges or trees when there aren’t any there naturally. But near me, that stuff is super common as boundaries for fields for exactly the same reason.

They have some really cool pressure capsules for bringing deep sea specimens to the surface, can’t imagine it wouldn’t work for bacteria and such, but the actual studying of it would be very difficult.

Like the blob fish, which was really just a fairly normal looking fish that essentially ruptured into a pile of goo under the lack of pressure, the cells they would be trying to study would be really really difficult to do anything with.

You’d probably have to create a whole special automated lab for them, maybe even a whole mess of different types for different environments, but making a rover-type craft and studying them in situ would probably be much easier. Like the mars rovers, but close enough to control live.

Personally, I’m partial to sending people down to work on deep sea labs to study this stuff as per the Rifters series by Peter Watts. It seems fascinating to be modified to breathe underwater and survive the pressures.

Link is to the archive.org full copy of Starfish, book one of the Ritters trilogy, all of which were released entirely free, and are absolutely amazing imo. Wild ride of insanity and destruction. All of his work that I’ve read has been great.

Consider: graphics cards pricing.

Shit’s not coming back down to reasonable prices any time soon. At least not without major intervention on the part of governments.

Thank you, I went into the mastodon (I think that’s what that is?) post looking for a link, knowing I’ve seen it arranged like a comic before, and was dismayed there don’t seem to be one.

Considering the delay some stuff has, I extend it to roughly a week.

The fact that he’s into bimbofication makes so much sense, even if she didn’t do it strictly for him… (mar-a-lago face is political bimbofication as far as I’m concerned)

Bet he was real encouraging.

As someone who just updated from 17 to whatever it’s on now due to that security vulnerability (and who used android prior to this piece of shit), they are definitely still getting worse.

Autocorrect got substantially worse between versions, to the point that I can’t get a single message without a misspelled word that it doesn’t even try to fix, a misspelling that it corrects to something completely different, or it corrects the right word to something else (I’ve turned it off entirely, it’s now actively worse than nothing…). The ui is unusable for me without accessibility options to remove transparency to get rid the bright glassy nonsense they did and change it to ugly gray boxes (headaches exacerbated by bright stuff in my face, ugly was my only option and that fucking sucks because it worked -and looked- fine before…). They also haven’t bothered to fix the glitch in night mode where touching the text entry field makes it glow bright gray (speculated they used the light mode effect by accident), a problem which has apparently been around since 18 first dropped in ‘24. Some phones, like mine, have a glass backplate they don’t go out of their way tell you is glass, which shatters if you nick the glass tubes around the camera that sticks out a foot… why so much fucking glass? Is it to kill resale value? I bet it is!

Plus all the stuff you said. Also I don’t believe them that they support user privacy. Why would they when they can pretend to and still get the money?

My friend has always been on iOS and updates it whenever updates are out, and didn’t notice the creep of how bad it was, but slamming from 17 up to current was almost as much of a shock as moving to iOS in the first place, as far as reduced usability goes.

As soon as moto drops a graphene compatible device I’m getting one and never looking back.

Good thing librarians aren’t afraid of letters cuz that’s a hell of an acronym. Can’t even pretend it’s a word.

She knows, she’s definitely struggled with that feeling. Written all over her body, and shown to the world in an act of support and solidarity.

Powerful picture.

Am I a joke to you?

Bigfin Squid

I feel very very bad for my medical teams if that the case cuz I resist drugs until they knock me out, to my perception, and am chatty and inquisitive up until I lose memory. I can’t imagine I’m less annoying after if I’m not just out cold already.

They don’t bother trying to lie to me about my drugs tho cuz I’m asking about them. And the equipment. What drugs are you giving me? Oh this is fentanyl? It feels nice, I get why it’s a controlled substance, yeah. What’s that for? What’s that do? Cool, yeah, tell me more about your job. Oh what kind of gas are you giving me? Sorry for being so chatty but thanks for telling me! (Same shit I do fully coherent, but with situationally acceptable drugs and a group of people invested in responding to me, excellent.)

Genuinely fascinating that people learned to read that stuff like language. I mean I guess it was language. Hmm I guess that sort of was the monitor… just really big analogue pixels…

Didn’t use fertile or follow or falter. Fine folly.

Or you could live in a less urban area, specifically one where transplants are less common than people who grew up less than 30 min away. People who never left their home town, whose friend group also never left, still have all their friends from school and don’t need or want more. They don’t really want to be your friend even if you do click. You can meet them out dozens of times and have running jokes when you see each other, but they’ll never go out of their way to make or keep plans.

Everyone who moves to my current area says basically the same thing about how difficult it is to make friends here. People much more commonly get their friends hired with them than make friends with new people who get hired, so even that hasn’t been a super fruitful endeavor. Only people I’ve managed to make lasting friends with have also been from elsewhere and struggled.

That’s not to say people aren’t nice and welcoming, they are, they just aren’t welcoming into their social circles.