Needs NSFW tag.
This is porn. ‘I know it when I see it.’
Needs NSFW tag.
This is porn. ‘I know it when I see it.’
I keep saying this and people say I’m crazy, but whales, elephants, and some other animals for sure have religion (a codified mythos of spirituality passed down through generations). Our experience is not remotely unique.
Recent studies show that birds, whales, and many other animals use consistent grammar and have accents. They’re not just making mindless sounds, they’re communicating with purpose. We’ve documented empathy in several other species. Some other species outperform us in memory and certain cognitive tests.
And many animals have been observed objectively playing and having fun. It’s pretty narcissistic to think we’re that much more advanced than other animals. Just because our culture places great emphasis on our ability to manipulate our environment doesn’t mean those that don’t aren’t as ‘evolved’ as we are. That’s very egotistical, and has led to some of our subcultures oppressing even other humans that lived nomadically or with nature as ‘subhuman’.
Wanting our cheese wrapped in plastic doesn’t make us more highly evolved. We’re just as evolved as everything else alive right now, and of course it’s probable that some other animals appreciate fun. It’s a concept even our newborns understand. It’s ludicrous to assume otherwise, imo.
Someone is for sure making a video titled ‘top ten things to search & replace that give away your paper as ai generated’ as we speak, and this is #1. The smart ones are selling a plug in that does it for you.
Get a job programming video codecs. Then you get to feel superior and inferior at the same time. Also eternally frustrated by doing things that help everyone and no one, and that you can never finish. It’s the best of all worlds.
Oh shit I just got it. Thanks.
True. Which is why you need to market your car as the world’s fastest horse that never needs to eat and doesn’t shit on things.
Weirdo here. We needed it for video games (pre-1990 at least).
We had a smokers’ wall in high school: a corner of the break yard next to the cafeteria that was designated by a yellow stripe painted on the ground. It was always full-to-bursting at every break, and if you had even a toe over it whilst smoking, it was immediate detention.
A pop and a puff of smoke meant we were going to miss the rest of our show, but would go on a fun trip to the electronics shop with dad. I loved that shop. So many cool things.
And the Netherlands. More than a dime, though.
Conversely, I remember rivers on fire.
(e: I think that was our biggest clue at the time we were fucking up.)
Calling in to the radio station to request your song, then sitting with your fingers hovering above the play and record buttons for two hours, waiting for them to play it. Missing the first few seconds because you got distracted, but you were the first one at school on Monday with the new song, so it was worth it.
TV Guide. Every week, you’d get a little digest in the post with a listing of that week’s shows, trivia, Q&As and interviews with insiders, and puzzles & games. I was very interested in movies and television, and devoured it cover to cover.
e: link
I blame this for my inability to sleep without white noise. I fell asleep to the television throughout my formative years.
Holy shit, this one is depressing.
Back when ‘do you have Showtime?’ was sleep-over code for ‘will we get to watch porn when the ‘rents go to sleep?’
Some pods of whales will revisit certain coordinates yearly, or on longer timelines that are extremely regular, where there’s no discernible reason (no food, they’re not mating, etc). They hang out for a while, then leave. They don’t do anything special there but vocalise more, and they’ll put off hunting for this social interaction. It’s reminiscent of early human history when we were nomadic and would sometimes gather, foregoing hunts in favour of sharing stories, often in the form of legends. Our earliest mythologies and spiritualism grew from this, and there’s no reason to discount their behaviour as so different from early hominins.
Elephants have been known for revisiting the bones of family members for decades, and a recent paper has been submitted with evidence they’ve been observed burying their dead on purpose – carrying babies for miles to man-made trenches. They obviously can’t do that with their larger dead, but they appear to prefer their dead to be protected from predation if possible, and they stay with the bodies for days, trumpeting. That strongly suggests they have some kind of opinions surrounding death, which again, in our own ancestors is inextricable from spirituality.
I personally think some other animals have religion – I have no real evidence as that’s just my opinion. I think we vastly underestimate animals and overestimate our relative importance.
e: link