I’ve mentioned this before but I worked at a zoo and we provided all kinds of plants to primates that were medicinal for just this reason, they’re very clever and often treat their illnesses before the keepers even know they’re sick. Not just great apes either, capuchins and lemurs that aren’t nearly as bright do it too.

We’re up to 922 according to that link. That’s insane.

Zoos have known this for a long while, this study from London zoo went into it in 2006, and look at the sources going back into the 90’s.

It’s cool that this new study has come out, but this isn’t news really.

I’m getting paywalled and can’t be bothered getting around it but I’ve read a lot about this from the researchers who study it, it’s quite interesting. Is it possible that cells can have memory? Of course. Could energy persist beyond the physical? Sure.

I wouldn’t call myself a believer but I’m definitely a curious observer.

I think you’re confused between which part of a socialist dictatorship is socialism and which part is dictatorship.

Most, if not all countries have a level of socialism, US has less than say France, who have less than Norway, etc.

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Poor woman. The women there have been through so much.

There’s something wrong in the research here, if she had her daughter at 14, and the daughter is 14, then how can she be 26?

I got into pizza dough over covid. I currently have three different 00 flours. It’s really fun to try different things though, how long you do each thing, how much of what goes in, pizza stones, baking trays, etc. I’m not at my perfect pizza yet but definitely like what I’m making.

I’m concerned how much the focus is on being a burden to others. If someone wants to die then fair enough, but if they die for the benefit of others that isn’t a free choice.

To clarify, yet again, the girls who would pull this trick would act as if they were interested in the guy that they chose, and were interested in sleeping with them. They were not interested in sleeping with them, they just wanted free drinks. The guys would find out at the end of the night that these girls were pretending to be interested just to get drinks, and would be annoyed that they had been tricked. At no point did anyone owe anything to anyone else.

A guy who had been tricked like this in the past might avoid anyone that he thinks might be trying it in the future.

Read this through again. Think about what you’re saying. To suggest it’s a ‘trick’ to accept a gift that’s offered without offering your own self as a reward. If you truly believe that women don’t owe men sex if they buy them a drink then why are you talking about it as if they’re not holding up their end of the bargain?

They didn’t ask that at all, they asked if they were in the wrong.

Your opinion that it may have suggested a lady might be willing to be bought a drink but shockingly would not sleep with the man indeed suggests an obligation that doesn’t exist.

You use the phrase “burned by taking advantage” again suggests an obligation.

I think you’re reading way too far into a playful action.

Also, buying someone a drink does not make them obligated to sleep with you, but that’s not relevant to the story because nobody bought anyone anything.

Someone is not getting drunk on a sip of your beer and a sip definitely doesn’t count as a free drink.

I was listening on the radio about this new aid boat, they’re trying to work out how to do it because people are so hungry and desperate that they will drown trying to be the first to the boat.

Writing Free Palestine in a busy area of London is not anti semetism. There’s some examples here that aren’t nice, but if out of their hundreds of events of ‘anti semetism’ one of the worst ones they pick out is protesting genocide then they have no credibility.

Nah, something happened, probably suicide, he stabbed himself in his own back, that’s called extra suicide, definitely nothing weird going on here.

You definitely could. Theres also these hammocky type beds. They look too small for my cats but don’t stick out from the wall very far and if you’re DIYing it then you could make them bigger.

You can get some premade pieces to add to this, I have one of these which they use to climb up and as a scratching post, and this bed which acts as a resting point along with my standard shelves. Neither were very expensive.

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This student seems both cocky and clueless in equal measures. Fingerprints are not one of a kind, it’s a very useful method as they rarely repeat exactly but they do so are not used in isolation but rather as part of a case.

I’m not sure why he’s going on about different fingers on the same person being similar but not the same, that’s known and kind of irrelevant, you can’t convict someone with “your fingerprints are kind of similar to this one” without further convincing evidence.