VegaLyrae

joined 2 years ago
[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Just softening them up for 2027

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everyone does it eventually

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Only superpower left who hasn't tried to invade them at some point in time.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 31 points 2 years ago

Oh and I forgot, a big one, I engage the cats if they show interest in my task.

When cooking they can smell safe things, if I'm working on tech i have a very large screw and bolt for them to play with/try out instead of my small ones.

Cats are social and want to be included, if you give them the option to do "parallel play" I think it will improve what people see as problem behaviors that are really just begging to be included.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fetch: grab the toy if they play with it and it ends up close by, use verbal reinforcement

Names: the cats recognize everyone's name in the hous thanks to reinforcement learning

Locations: the cats know where I'm going and can beat me there because I tell them where I'm going, sounds like reinforcement learning again?

Activities: set phrases like "let's go", "come on", "let's get some food", "jump up", etc, all by reinforcement training.

Paw-touching: slowly touch more and more often, for longer, until nail clipping is a breeze. Hmm... Might be reinforcement training again.

To end bad behaviors, hiss, it's a built-in "no" for cats.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

It sucks and I canceled it and subscribed to it through YouTube which means paramount gets 30% less money.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I am floored no one mentioned the original Ratchet and Clank

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxLlSv5mvIa1WGSK3wH3o2Y9I4D-rqFi

David Bergeaud did such a standout job with it, it's so varied but cohesive, it's engaging and synthy but real and groovy.

It MAKES the environment just as much as graphics.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

It seems like we've actually grown further from treating it as such.

For the first half of US history the constitution was more often than not tightly interpreted.

I imagine many things we take for granted today would not stand under the same level of constitutional rigor without an enabling amendment.

Honestly I wouldn't mind going back to a stricter interpretation, but we do need to get back to making amendments.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not to say that the 2nd amendment, as written, isn't totally wild.

However I do want to mention that the Continental congress was petitioned by John Belton in 1777 to purchase his 16-shot musket. It also had a not-quite-magazine that could be replaced very quickly. The 16 shots could be fired as quickly as the user could pull the triggers (yes it had multiple).

Given this, it seems likely that the people writing the constitution ten years later had some idea of rapid fire weaponry.

Just 20 years after that, they sent Lewis and Clarke expedition out with a relatively rapid firing airgun.

It is reasonable to say that rapid fire weaponry was contemporaneous to the constitution writing era.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

Looks like a covered utility trench, ironically with the cover off.

So a trench.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eggs are expensive and I've never seen anyone wear a kimono to high school.

A cowboy kimono sounds kinda interesting Mashup tho.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Yes this soy sauce stuff is really neat

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