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It’s just depressingly vulgar.

I posted it here, read mode button in Firefox bypasses the NY Times paywall.

Article:

Sperm whales rattle off pulses of clicks while swimming together, raising the possibility that they’re communicating in a complex language.

Credit…Amanda Cotton

May 7, 2024
Ever since the discovery of whale songs almost 60 years ago, scientists have been trying to decipher their lyrics. Are the animals producing complex messages akin to human language? Or sharing simpler pieces of information, like dancing bees do? Or are they communicating something else we don’t yet understand?

In 2020, a team of marine biologists and computer scientists joined forces to analyze the click-clacking songs of sperm whales, the gray, block-shaped leviathans that swim in most of the world’s oceans. On Tuesday, the scientists reported that the whales use a much richer set of sounds than previously known, which they called a “sperm whale phonetic alphabet.”

People have a pho-ne-tic alphabet too, which we use to produce a practically infinite supply of words. But Shane Gero, a marine biologist at Carleton University in Ottawa and an author of the study, said it’s unclear whether sperm whales similarly turn their phonetic sounds into a language.

“The fundamental similarities that we do find are really fascinating,” Dr. Gero said. “It’s totally changed the way we have to do work going forward.”

Since 2005, Dr. Gero and his colleagues have followed a clan of 400 sperm whales around Dominica, an island nation in the eastern Caribbean, eavesdropping on the whales with u

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Yeah I wondered how I could register the same username for kbin social and kbin earth. Which Rick am I talking to? The pickle one? Anyone can assume your identity

About 20% of my traffic is blocked by pihole, a netwrok wide ad blocker.

Planet Crafter. I am enjoying it, so I played it all weekend.

Exactly.

I had 3 dads in my childhood and I turned out fine, broken but fine. My son never experienced what I had to go through. So I kinda learned how not to parent.

I think being patient, soft spoken when correcting, being structural, reliable and open on your own feelings towards anything and giving kids a choice in walking their own path in some extent…kids will do alright.

Some good references too, like that poster on the wall in episode 5, 'a man and his dog ',

Todd produced something that’s actually good‽
Probably a mandatory credit thing, he is too busy fixing Starfield

Like Coper said, Stremio, (realdebrid, torrentio) is the way to go and should work on your firestick

Real debrid is dirt cheap and you get loyalty points. 1000 points is a month extra.

Imma tired of this shit!

*Yawns in Stremio/real debrid/torrentio/shield

Max Payne 1 and 2, F.E.A.R, Far Cry, MAME with a couple of arcade roms like Galaga, Tetris, Pang, Puzzle Bobble, Metal Slug.

And if I get bored with those there is always Microsoft solitair, mine sweeper and mayong to fall asleep on the keyboard.

A raspberry pi with pihole running as dhcp server. In the ISP router turn off DHCP, DNS problem solved as pi will advertise its DNS to all connected devices on the network.

One can just click the reader view/mode button if you’re on Firefox and bypass paywalls and popups. Doesn’t work on all sites but works on this one.

It’s the egg and onions that might be an acquired taste for some. Ei met ui…we Dutch call it, and will pronounce it in a the Hague accent. “Eh meh uh.”

I like matse with semi old Gouda or Edammer cheese please, because it taste kinda saltless, but with a good topping I can eat a whole pack.

My SO doesn’t like gaming as well, but we play Bejuweled 3 together. It is not multiplayer but we take turns everytime it’s game over. It’s very relaxing and addictive and kills time pretty quick.

one of the worst pieces of software ever made

That’s kind of an understatement.

Access to internet is a basic human right. Sony doesn’t honor basic human rights when it wants people kicked off internet because money.

Thanks for the heads -up.