Little known facts

[Peloso]

Think about it next time you complain about your furry meowy bitch.

You are flirting with danger!!

https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-news-now/study-cats-may-legitimately-be-psychopaths/

 

[belamyi]

^ Think about flirting with media danger...

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Psychologists may legitimately be psychopaths.

And lawyers, brokers, and any sort of seller... and... and... and...

 

[Araucaria]

^You didn't miss anything. I don't buy their contention that cats are psychopaths. They said that things like running around the house for no reason (that their humans could see, that doesn't mean they could see things from the cat's point of view), running up trees, and hissing make cats psychopathic. These are just things cats do. And that's not taking into account the danger of taking a psychological term developed from criteria on humans, and applying it to another animal.

 

[Peloso]

^You didn't miss anything. I don't buy their contention that cats are psychopaths. They said that things like running around the house for no reason (that their humans could see, that doesn't mean they could see things from the cat's point of view), running up trees, and hissing make cats psychopathic. These are just things cats do. And that's not taking into account the danger of taking a psychological term developed from criteria on humans, and applying it to another animal.

Of course not. For one thing, cats are highly emotional, amd, contrary to popular belief, sociopaths can be emotional too. You can't apply a scientific label meant for one species to another species. I just posted that to frighten belamo.

 

[belamyi]

Of course not. For one thing, cats are highly emotional, amd, contrary to popular belief, sociopaths can be emotional too. You can't apply a scientific label meant for one species to another species. I just posted that to frighten belamo.

If you mean your stupidity, it just can't

 

[Peloso]

If you mean your stupidity, it just can't

You can't apply a scientific label meant for one species to another species.

I'm far too evolved to be stupid, silly human.

 

[belamyi]

I'm far too evolved to be stupid, silly human.

Only 10% of that

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The part that hasn't evolved yet


As for your own idea of yourself, that judgement is only your species' take on the concept of "stupidity"

 

[belamyi]

 

[Kulindahr]

hunters in the U.S. donate enough meat to make 1.6 billion meals annually

 

[belamyi]

hunters in the U.S. donate enough meat to make 1.6 billion meals annually

All that meat being healthier and richer in protein than lentils, one is right to assume?

 

[Kulindahr]

All that meat being healthier and richer in protein than lentils, one is right to assume?

Yep. To buy meat that lean and healthy in the store here costs about $16/pound. So people getting it free from food banks are getting quite a deal!

 

[belamyi]

Yep. To buy meat that lean and healthy in the store here costs about $16/pound. So people getting it free from food banks are getting quite a deal!

I was not talking about the American equivalent of old Venezuela thriving on virtually for-free oil: I meant nutritious, not market value

Anyway, you mean "still costs": the meat market is not these days what used to be, is that right? I mean in terms of labor force, logistics...

 

[Kulindahr]

I was not talking about the American equivalent of old Venezuela thriving on virtually for-free oil: I meant nutritious, not market value

Anyway, you mean "still costs": the meat market is not these days what used to be, is that right? I mean in terms of labor force, logistics...

Actually the prices on the lean, healthy cuts have been going up. And both of the meat departments at local grocery stores are a bit understaffed at the moment.

 

[belamyi]

Actually the prices on the lean, healthy cuts have been going up. And both of the meat departments at local grocery stores are a bit understaffed at the moment.

Well, that's what I meant, according to what I had glimpsed from the news: thanks for confirming.

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So that means the shit (not lean, not-so-healthy cuts) is always selling well.

 

[Alistair]

Michelangelo once made a snowman.

It's recorded by the art historian Giorgio Vasari that "one winter, when a great deal of snow fell in Florence, [the ruler] Piero de' Medici had him make in his courtyard a statue of snow, which was very beautiful". Nothing else is known about the snowman. All that is known for certain is that it happened; it was very beautiful; and it melted.

 

[Kulindahr]

Michelangelo once made a snowman.

It's recorded by the art historian Giorgio Vasari that "one winter, when a great deal of snow fell in Florence, [the ruler] Piero de' Medici had him make in his courtyard a statue of snow, which was very beautiful". Nothing else is known about the snowman. All that is known for certain is that it happened; it was very beautiful; and it melted.

Michelangelo would almost certainly have had workers pack a very compact mound of snow which he would have then carved, for a snow sculpture. Though I wonder if the snow was of the right type for something like this:

 

[belamyi]

^ You can be sure, as Gothic as Mickey ultimately was, for all the wrong conception of "Renaissance" as something more modern than medieval, that his "snowman" was nothing as crappily kitschy as that.

 

[Kulindahr]

^ You can be sure, as Gothic as Mickey ultimately was, for all the wrong conception of "Renaissance" as something more modern than medieval, that his "snowman" was nothing as crappily kitschy as that.

It illustrates what can be achieved with the right kind of snow -- most snowfalls don't deliver something that can have an outstretched wing like that has.

(BTW, it was the first-place winner in some Eastern European snow sculpture contest.)

 

[Kulindahr]

The original Advent wreath with candles was introduced by a German pastor to help his parishioners count down the days till Christmas. It became popular outside of Germany as Lutherans around the world began using it, and then when the British royal house, who are of German descent, introduced it to the Anglican church; from this dual impetus it reached around the world.

 

[Alistair]

2.5 billion Christmas cards are mailed in the US every year