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Parrot and the word "No"

Their linguistic prowess is limited but hilarious.

My bird knows probably a dozen or more human vocalizations and their rough usage. He has maracas that he likes to fiddle with and sometimes he will tap it against his head, which makes it rattle, and he will say "stahp eht"(stop it). He has a hatred of things that rattle or jingle and he loves to destroy things to make them stop. He is trying to tell the maracas to stop making noise that he causes. He will approach a toy that rattles and will say "stahp eht", and then pick it up or knock it about as if telling it to not make noise will make it not make noise; entirely absent is the concept that he is causing it to make noise.

It is quite funny to be told by a 63g bird to "shaddap" when the TV is too loud for him to sleep in his covered cage at night.

I do wish he would use "bed tyme" more appropriately for when he wants to be put to bed and not just whenever he wants to take one of his 6-10 naps a day. Close enough for an Amazonian Hitler pigeon with a final solution to the rattle and jingle question, I guess.

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Ah, now you can finally smoke safely!

I am once again reminding the world that the ancient Romans warned not to buy slaves from asbestos mines because of the health issues they had.

We have known for a very long time that asbestos was bad and we keep using it to this day.

At least we aren't using it to make easy clean tablecloths and napkins that only need to be thrown in a fire to clean...

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Anon questions North Korea

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Private car ownership is highly restricted. You only have access to a car if you are a party member, are conducting business for the party, or are well connected.

Their society is very localized and travel is restricted(you need a permit to leave your county), trains and bicycles are how you move about if you aren't walking.

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The house costs around $2.5m in today's money, or around $1.1m in 1990. Household income would have to be north of $300k/yr in 1990 dollars or over $600k in today money.

Kevin's uncle paid for the vacation for 15 or 17 people, which would have cost over $40k in 1990. The uncle also had a penthouse in Paris(where he transferred to, creating the desire to bring the family together for xmas.), Kevin's family stayed in a suite.

Given the neighborhood and proximity to Chicago, the father likely worked in finance.

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Metal melted out of a car

That is almost certainly aluminum, not enough lead in a modern car and the color is wrong.

Aluminum melts at a bit over 1200 degrees freedom, wildfires can exceed 2000 freedom units.

Engines, wheels, and suspension components are commonly made from aluminum. Looking at the scene presented, it is probably mostly the wheels that melted and ran downhill.

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Kill a half hour working out and/or go for a jog. You don't even need weight, just do bodyweight.

Take up hiking, it is nearly free, you get sun and exercise. You can even take a trash bag with you and clean up litter.

Find someone to stalk and murder.

Fishing is a great and cheap waste of time and you get sun.

Find an unsolved mystery in your area and work on solving it.

Start collecting pinecones, cool rocks, or used syringes.

Birdwatching can obliterate free-time and you might meet some widowed GILF to be your sugar momma.

Go places and give them Google or yelp reviews, be derrainged in your writing style like Hunter S Thompson with a head injury.

Take up meditation and have a false sense of superiority because you practice socially acceptable rotting with a calming mentally healthy spiritual guise.

Yoga is a thing, I'm sure you can make yoga pants look great.

Taxidermy roadkill armies don't assemble themselves, you can even find a tabletop game event to unlease your army upon and meet new people. Worst case you learn about the criminal justice system and that will kill even more time.

Befriend a murder of crows and receive their gifts.

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I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce]

Pirate Software is a such a twat.

He keeps saying he worked at Blizzard, which is factually correct, but he was a game tester and not a dev; a position he got because his dad worked there. He keeps using his time at Blizzard as some sort of support for his "authority" on the game industry.

He has had a game in dev for like 8 years and the code is written poorly or heavily relies on AI(exact notation style used by AI), sometimes both. Any criticism of his code is dismissed by saying that it is part of the ARG for the game and intentionally done.

He tried to gaslight his dad about him not calling on his dad's birthday by saying he did.

He doesn't support Stop Killing Games from an anti-consumer standpoint.

He does "developer streams" where he puts code on screen and doesn't actually do any coding(IMO because he can't actually code with real competence, based on examples of his code).

He should just put the fries in the bag or pivot his meta.