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Bullet train to the brain

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

Man I love Bonobo, I am lucky to have played the game Sleeping Dogs otherwise I never would have known him.

In the UK there is the “Too good to go” app.

I save a lot of money on groceries this way and provide others as well. You pay a third of the original price.

Heheh…Yeah, I never said gaming PC, the last build was a Linux machine with a RX470 and i5 4460 for an autistic boy who is into programming and tinkering with Linux distributions. Also needed it for school work. Thrown out by his parents, lonely, assisted living in a small room, so we got him a coffee machine, water cooker and microwave, and when he is here I always cook him a good meal. Thin as a leaf, eats two plates full, smears my herb butter on both sides of the bread.

He is a good friend of my son who is also autistic.

The build before was a Ryzen 5 with a GTX 1060 and an old Wacom tablet for a girl who can really paint great manga type art, her old PC took 20 minutes to start, which I fixed and gave to the guy I mentioned before. Her dad died, mom doesn’t have much, again pc needed for school work.

My charities are in my neighbourhood, like your friendly spiderman.

Like cooking for the less fortunate, giving kids my abandoned PC stuff, building together their new rig, supplying food packets to fams in need, like with the “to good to go” program here in the Netherlands. Supplying local food banks.

I have been homeless for a long time and now I share what I consider a very fat bank account. I certainly knew how to share when I had nothing, makes one humble, makes one appreciate rain on the window, or a shower whenever you want one. I got served a patato soup and a glass of port after eating nothing walking around hungry for days by a guy who had himself nothing, engraved in my mind.

We got all we need now and then some… Why not see a problem at close and solve it right there. I am surely not giving Bob Geldof any money, fuck that guy.

We like chrome here as much as a vampire likes sunlight.

I pay 0,07€ international, vice versa is free roaming.

What are you paying for SMS? I pay 6 euro a month for unlimited sms and calls and 2 GB data. 50+ mobiel is my provider. Now they offer my plan with the first year for 2,5 euro. Dirt cheap.

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

Boney M member Bobby Farrell died on 30 december in St. Petersburg, as did Rasputin…almost a century later though.

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

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

Nice and interesting read, thank you for posting.

Sure thing, thanks for the advice Captain. 5 watt charger on it already.

I have a s9+ as a home assistant remote. Put 2 strong magnets in the silicon back cover and stuck it on the fridge.

Got an automation for the charging, when the battery is at 5% adapter on, at 100% off again… the automation toggles a tradfri switch.

I quicksaved the fuck out of Fallout NV, kept crashing every corner…kept playing anyway.

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.