I’m sure some middle class people can afford to go to burning man. But you’re being wilfully ignorant if you think burning man isn’t catered to the rich. It’s almost purely a status symbol event. It’s definitely where people go to show off their lavish wealth and take pictures for Instagram. I’m pretty sure if they took a survey 80%+ would be wealthy people.

I’m middle class, and I’m spending a couple hundred dollars on my holiday this week, I almost can’t fathom spending thousands living in a tent in a desert.

But you’re right, the middle class has been eroded. What was considered middle class in 1970 would be rich today. That’s just because most people are worse off financially.

If you’re spending upwards of $1000 on a few days you’re probably rich.

Regulations are probably tighter outside China, can’t slap together a skyscraper in 3 months that’ll fall apart in a year like China can.

I recently learnt that it just auto accepts them so I stopped using, ublock has settings to actually block cookies which seems to work well, more tricky to enable though.

It’s very specific but I’d love an auto-skip intro add on for Plex like I have for Netflix.

Pollute the moon all you want, better than earth.

Bit late to the party, but either Mortal Engines, the Young James Bond series, or Michelle Paver’s Chroncal’s of Ancient Darkness. They were all very engaging and transformative to a young me.

I probably remember parts of Young James bond the best, there’s parts about leeches that really stuck with me. I can still remember Mortal Engines as a whole in great detail, the concept and descriptions of the city chases are fantastic.

Atlanta is one of the slowest releasing shows I’ve ever seen, and it’s so simple. 4 seasons in 7 years, god damn.

Idk what Glover spends all his time doing, he left community early because he was so busy but has pretty much only released Atlanta, Solo and one album since 2010.

Hell, I’ve had a £100 phone for 3 years already and it’s absolutely fine. I’ve noticed a little battery degregation but it still lasts a whole day. Plus a cheap batter change will make it last year’s more. I can’t understand why anyone would still sing those contracts for a new phone every 2 years.

I was half way through the third episode and it dawned on me that I just don’t care. The story isn’t engaging. There had been like 5 minutes of monster hunting which was the best bit. I like the main 4 actors but they’re not doing anything with them.

I might slog through a few more episodes but idk if I can be arsed finishing it.

Yes, a lot of humanity only cares about reproduction. But we’ve also elevated ourselves to creat art, science, music, etc.

I can’t know for sure what animals care about, but I can make an educated guess based on evidence and observations. Most animals haven’t got past the “find food, survive, reproduce” mindset - at least not much more than that, maybe add entertainment to pass the time. There’s documentation of dolphins getting high recreationally.

Pretty much, some animals have other have a slightly varied goal set, but none are able to do anything close to our achievements. Which are mostly based around intelligence as we’re not physically gifted.

Obviously not immediately, I never said that. If we had the ability to use sonar for the same amount of time, we’d be better at it and we soon will be better at it in less time than evolution allowed because our creativity and intelligence lets us advance faster than evolution.

Does the fact we learned how to use sonar without the natural evolved ability prove that we’re smarter?

Maybe content was the wrong word, animals just don’t care about advancing technology or growing. Most animals only care about reproduction, that’s their lives goal. Salmon literally spend their entire lives, growing up, leaving home, going back home to mate, and dies.

I’m not sure what your point is anymore, are you still campainging that animals are smarter than us? Because they’re not, they may be better at filling certain niches, but our niche is literally being smart. There are intelligent species but none have come close to what we can achieve with our brains. We sacrificed primate stretch and agility for higher brain power.

Because it’s not intelligence. Our apposable thumbs aren’t an indicator of intelligence, what we decide, with our brains, to do with those thumbs is intelligence. Just like brain size isn’t an indicator, sperm whales have the largest brain on the planet yet we are better at applying ours. And a crow’s brain is smaller than a child but it’s commenly understood they’re smarter than a 4 year old.

Dog’s use of their nose are signs of intelligence but not the nose in and of itself. It shows that they’re intelligent, but clearly not more so than humans, who still have more complex relationships, language, learning ability, etc. The smelling of diseases isn’t intelligence, they don’t learn it, they can just do it. It’s a natural evolved ability, like better hearing. Animals and humans using their brains to learn is a measure of intelligence and it’s faster than evolution. It’s not like we couldn’t use smell to communicate if we had the ability.

I never said anything other than intelligence is meaningless, but in this case, it’s largely meaningless as a measure of intelligence past the comparitivly simple form of communication smell is used as. I’m not saying animals are unintelligent, we’re just more intelligent. It’s more like;

Human has ability = what we do with it is a measure of intelligence.

Animal has ability = what they do with it is a measure of intelligence and we’d do more with it if we had the ability, because our intelligence makes us more curious and inventive. Most animals are content with the natural order, if humans could smell disease we’d use it to advance our medicine.

Suzuki and his colleagues found that whale songs convey less than one bit of information per second. By comparison, humans speaking English generate 10 bits of information for each word spoken

I understand some animals, especially mammals like whales, dolphins, and primates have complex languages. But ours is still more advanced. They just have no reason for their language to become more complex when all they need to do is eat and mate.

Animal communication is very basic compared to ours’ is just a blatantly false statement.

It’s not, it’s proven in the study you linked.

And as for smell, I would consider that an ability/skill, not intelligence. Monkeys aren’t smarter than us because they can climb trees faster than us, dolphins aren’t smarter than us because they’re more adapted to swimming. Even cats aren’t smarter than us based on their faster reaction speeds. Intelligence relies on brain power.

And it’s not like dolphins could learn whale language. Animal communication is very basic compared to ours.

I think it’s undeniable that we’re the most intelligent and capable species on the planet and not just because of apposable thumbs. Maybe some of the smartest animals are smarter than the dumbest humans, but we have a huge range.

No other brain works the way ours does, other primates and some dolphins/whales come close with their ingenuity and stuff but obviously millions of years behind us.

Had they every met before? If cats grow up together of course they’ll be nicer/more familiar.

Good, I hope it dies and never releases in the UK. Netflix is still good here and has all the old 6+ season shows.

I’d probably say on the release day at minimum, a lot of people have ‘hide read posts’ on and will never see this again.

How is 3 buttons too complicated?

No, it’s not bland. But it falls into the awful category for me at least. That’s two appealing movies out of how many? A lot of these new movies have amazing detail but no soul. Pixar has had no joy for years.

I do really hope PiB and Spiderman inspire more studios to put effort into their kids movies.