Research shows that crows and other corvids know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds according to STAT. This is considered a cornerstone of self-awareness and shared by just a handful of animal species besides humans.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a34165311/crows-are-self-aware-like-humans/
I had a coworker named Aja who is of mixed race and absolutely beautiful and some creepy guy kept trying to get her to tell him her race and she would NOT give him the satisfaction and the conversation went something like this:
Creep: So, where are you from?
Aja: Chicago.
Creep: No, where are your parents from?
Aja: Chicago.
Creep: Okay, well Aja is a really exotic name, where is that from?
Aja: A Steely Dan song.
Black service members have served with distinction in every US war, going back to Independence.
Shout out to everyone that's seen the painting of Washington crossing the Delaware, but never noticed the Black guy in the boat! 🙋🏿♂️
If serving with honor were a path to being seen as a "real American," Black folk would've achieved that goal long ago.
But I still run into EU immigrants (who just got their green card last year!), telling me that "BLM protesters don't love this country like I do!"🤡
Trump pushed his staff to get Jimmy Kimmel shut down.
I don't want to worry you uneccesarily, but the smattering of stories on the new #avianflu strain that are creeping into the media is starting to look like the drip drip of stories in January 2020 before the acceleration of #Coronavirus.
Now it may be I/we are just more aware of such stories now, and of course the #pandemic has changed much of the infection environment but we have also have been warned another #pandemic is almost inevitable...
so is this the first sign?
Looking at the pictures of snowy I-5 over the transverse ranges suddenly reminded me of a YMCA trip to Disneyland, where our bus broke down on the return north and we all piled into a couple of open stake trucks (!!) with our duffle bags packed around, and a few open sleeping bags covering on top of us all, that night in the winter chill. I was about 12, and somebody stole my Avon Hawaiian White Ginger perfume creme pot. I still remember, whoever you are.
NWS Los Angeles: "A winter weather advisory was added for the Santa Monica mountains (for elevations mainly above 1500 feet) through 11 pm, where a dusting to 2 inches of snow is likely. #LArain #LAWeather #cawx" #CAwx #LosAngelesCounty #VenturaCounty #snow
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@lauren How's the wind over in them thar parts? Did it materialize?
@oskay explained to someone that the version of EM wave theory they learned from talking to ChatGPT got basic concepts wrong and that all the words they use are right, but the meanings have nothing to do with what actual electrical engineers mean when they say "antenna", "transmission line", "characteristic impedance"…
Seriously hope they manage to unlearn all this.
New York Times gets a jump on April 1st with story about Zillionaire's daughter presuming to offer self-help advice based on her heartbreakingly deprived life...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/business/elizabeth-koch-perception-box.html
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