Pons_Aelius

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Pons_Aelius,

people are morally questionable by nature

You keep making sweeping statements about all of humanity.

Please speak for yourself.

Pons_Aelius,

Machete

crossbow

body armour

night-vision.

Stealth, protection and silent defence.

Pons_Aelius,

I frickin’ love lamb dishes

If you ever get a chance, try goat curries. They will rock your world.

Pons_Aelius,

seems eminently wikipediable

Telephones existed for a century before wikkipedia...

In the before times: The guinness book of records started as a promo by the guinness brewery given to pub owners to settle bar argumnets like this one.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

They have friends who are not the same gender/sexual orientation as they are. (good indicator they are accepting of people dissimilar to them)

The read for pleasure.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

I seriously doubt it would be possible with humans still in the picture due to our impact on the biosphere and resource use.

No matter what high minded principles we might espouse, human history shows that we fuck up less tech advanced cultures, even when we think we are trying to help.

Case in point North Sentinel Island.

TLDR: Hunter gatherer society that the world has decided to leave alone as they do not want contact but some fuckhead US christian decided he knew better, attempted contact to tell them about God or whatever and got himself killed. While possibly infecting them with something they have no immunity for.

Pons_Aelius,

Leave them the fuck alone.

Where to turn to if I need books that are paywalled behind overly expensive academic portals?

I need some books paywalled behind Oxford Politics Trove and they aren’t on Anna’s lib, Zlib, Libgen, Memory of the World, Aaarg, or the Internet Archive. Not sure to whom else to turn to. I hate that knowledge like this is paywalled, and I highly doubt the authors will be paid if I pay the highway robbery of a price.

Pons_Aelius,

IIRC: The Oxford Politics Trove is more text books than academic papers.

Pons_Aelius,

That was what I was going to say as well.

They usually learn to stop by interacting with their litter mates.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

Yep, the difference in that short time is pretty big. My parents bred dogs when I was a kid. My dad liked to keep them together for 16 weeks.

taken at 8 weeks or sometimes even younger.

The people who do this are arseholes running puppy mills in my opinion.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

Correct meaning: You are now entering a dogging area.

Pons_Aelius,
Pons_Aelius,

True friendship is when you can be together and not feel the need to entertain or be entertained.

Many people who self identify as extroverts are just deathly afraid of silence and isolation as it may lead them to pay attention to their own thoughts.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

Olfactory fatigue:

Olfactory fatigue, also known as odor fatigue, olfactory adaptation, and noseblindness, is the temporary, normal inability to distinguish a particular odor after a prolonged exposure to that airborne compound.

Pons_Aelius,

Around here (Aus) it has been a tradition for generations to leave a beer out for Santa as he no doubt could do with a break during the long night dropping off presents.

Pons_Aelius,

How many times does it have to be said: The cloud is just someone else's computer that you have no control over.

Pons_Aelius,

Dutch angles!

Get your dutch angles here!

Pons_Aelius,

a Victorian Tasmanian naturalist

Or possibly a Victorian Van Diemen's Land naturalist as Morton Allport was there before the name change in 1856.

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