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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • tl;dr: There are little “chimes” of different lengths that produce sound when struck. The sound is higher than what humans can hear. The four buttons on the remote lift strikers and then drop them against the chimes. It’s basically a toy piano.

    We had one when I was a kid, hand-me-down from grandma. We also had a dog who wore a fairly loose stainless steel choker chain. When he’d bounce around, the chain links would clink, occasionally turning the TV on/off, changing the channel, muting the volume.











  • Oh, I definitely wouldn’t say that “no contact” should be the only option. I think McD’s has taken it a bit too far; you still can order from a person at a register, but it’s pretty much an afterthought now.

    But I do think that having those no contact options available for whoever wants to use them, for whatever reason, is a positive thing. If I’m having a particularly bad bout of social anxiety, just sitting at a table and eating my cheeseburger “like a normal person” can be very grounding, but it might not be something I’m able to do if I have to talk to a person to place my order.



  • Yeah, this opinion piece reeks of “buyer’s remorse” for having paid a premium for hardware that has the Apple logo on it, and then being mad that it’s very locked down. That’s been Apple’s thing forever, you kind of can’t blame anyone else for your purchase decision at this point.

    For most people, the hardware and operating system are “one thing,” inseparable. Most people are not installing a different OS on their hardware, even if it is possible and relatively simple for people who are technically inclined. Does that mean that most people are “locked in”? Not really, not from their perspective. They bought “the thing,” and “the thing” either works for them or it doesn’t.

    So we have this author lamenting that “the thing” he bought doesn’t work for him the way he’d like, without recognizing that if he had specific needs from “the thing” that it doesn’t provide, he failed to sufficiently research “the thing” before purchasing it.



  • “No biting” stood out to me, too.

    And this makes sense because his brain didn’t evolve to communicate complex ideas using words.

    But some of them most certainly communicate with vocalization. The fact that some birds are able to mimic the non-bird sounds they hear points to their being very good with vocalization. What’s in a word besides being a set of vocalizations that communicates some meaning to another creature?

    We’re seeing them as being related, but I think we are doing a lot of the heavy lifting here assigning intelligence where there may be a lot more random noise.

    Possibly, and I’m not a bird lawyer. It starts to get kind of meta from this point. What is intelligence, and are we the arbiters of its definition?

    … spent his time practicing identifying objects, …

    Like with “step up” and “no biting”? Don’t get me wrong, you make good and valid points. I just think it’s more of a “grey” area (pun intended).