Yeah, they needed a shitload of money to pay Bobby Kotick apparently.
Get off my lawn!
Yeah, they needed a shitload of money to pay Bobby Kotick apparently.
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
“sleeping”…they need rehab
I miss the Amiga 500 in that list. ;)
My cat licks its nose when he wants to eat.
‘where’s the food human? I am going to sit here in front of you, do a stare contest and shlorp shlorp my nose…’
Chicken filet plain cooked and shredded into thin strips. I make it for Surinam Bami and always give the cat some. When I make bami he is always close on the lookout for his share. It is gone in seconds, eats like a hungry dog.
Also chicken livers cooked and finely chopped or puréed.
Normally he eats BARF…hehe.
We have people with Malamutes more than half a kilometer away. I only learned what Malamutes where after I asked my wife wtf that noise was all the time…they are not mutes at all.
You are a kind person taking her in and taking care, she made a good choice staying. She looks somewhat older to me (10+) looking at her face. Ours is 17 now, kind to everyone and still in reasonable health, limbs are getting a bit stiff though.
Off course, that’s just the way it is. The cat living with us always needs the snuggles.
How old is your cat if I may ask?
Yeah this is pretty fucked up, looks like bigotry to me
We like chrome here as much as a vampire likes sunlight.
I must confess I rushed the first playthrough and was not happy with the outcome. Second playthrough with DLC and paying attention was satisfying. I am looking out for Outer Worlds 2 which is in the making.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I wouldn’t rush it and go through every region on the planets with care so you pick up all missions, meet all the NPC’s as the game has several outcomes from the choices you make.
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
PC. I only touched my series X lately to clean the dust off.
I like modding games and just a few games support mods on Xbox. I bought it when graphic card prices went up astronomically. After I got me an 6750XT haven’t played on the Xbox. Also older games run @30FPS or some half assed resolution on Xbox. Meh.
Planet Crafter. I am enjoying it, so I played it all weekend.
Yeah, but no
I put in 1300 hrs into fo4 just for the settlement building. With mods though.
“I heard people complaining about the bed situation…” NPC carrieing a bedroll on her back.