@SuperSisi The most important thing that people are ignoring is consumer rights. Whether physical or digital, if you can't access what you bought it's bad no matter the format. I don't mind all digital as long as what I purchase is mine. Consumer rights are the real concern here.
@BrianAtlas Unfortunately, from experience I know it's the girl on the right (not experience with this girl, just in general ๐ ) it's always the least attractive one trying to blend in
Little Espresso was indeed poisoned. We also now believe she broke a rid when a local tried to save her with CPR.
11 days later we finally have a little smile and some tail wagging. It's the first day I see some big hope for her. So so tough on her
This is K9 Valor. He saved 47 soldiers. He survived a suicide bomber, then went on to stop three more, fighting tooth against knife. In the end, he placed himself between an explosion and his handler.
The blast shattered half his face. He lost his left eye and ear. He was flown to Germany, where surgeons worked to rebuild his jaw.
At the Pentagon, he was honored with a standing ovation that lasted over eight minutes.
A true American hero.
The California State Assembly has passed the Protect Our Games Act, a bill to protect user rights after a game's service ends
Under this, games shutting down would need to provide at least 60 days notice to consumers, while also ensuring that purchasers will still have access to the game via an alt version or patch that allows it to be played offline. And if not, they must offer refunds
The bill must still be passed by the California Senate
The research behind this is wild. A baby owl can sit and starve to death right next to a pile of food. Put a stuffed owl next to it, like in the video, and suddenly it'll eat. An Austrian zoologist, Konrad Lorenz, won the 1973 Nobel Prize for figuring out why.
He showed that young birds aren't born knowing who their mom is. In the first few days of life, their brain takes a kind of mental photograph. Whatever they see moving around gets locked in as "parent." After that, only that figure can switch on their feeding instinct. He called it imprinting.
Owls have it worse than most birds. They're born blind, naked, and totally helpless. A baby barn owl needs feeding every two to three hours for weeks. It can't even keep itself warm until its feathers come in. And right around the time its eyes finally open, between days 15 and 20, its brain locks onto whoever's been taking care of it. Miss that window with the wrong face nearby, and the owl is wired wrong for life.
Even the begging is automatic. In the 1950s, a Dutch scientist named Niko Tinbergen ran experiments with baby seagulls. He found the chicks were pecking at a specific shape. A long thin thing with a colored spot was enough to trigger the full begging routine, even when it was just a painted wooden stick. Take the stick away and the whole sequence shuts down. The chick can be staring straight at food, but if there's no parent-shaped trigger, its body doesn't know how to swallow.
There's a tiny patch in the bird brain that runs this whole show. It's the same part that learns and stores faces. Researchers at Cambridge and labs in Japan have mapped it down to the chemistry. They've even found a hormone that, if you inject it in the right spot, can re-open the imprinting window after it closes.
That dummy owl in the video carries 40 years of conservation work behind it. In 1982 there were only 22 California condors left in the entire world. The San Diego Zoo started feeding hatchlings with hand puppets shaped like adult condors, hiding the human handler behind a curtain. The condor population is now 607. The Bronx Zoo did the same thing last spring with a baby king vulture. The Barn Owl Trust in the UK feeds orphaned owls through owl puppets while wearing camouflage hoods, because an owl raised by humans can never be released back into the wild. It'll fly toward people, beg from them, and starve.
The dummy is the only signal the chick's brain still accepts as "mom." Evolution carved a very specific lock into its brain, and only the right shape fits.
@DataChaz Its crazy you have to use a scanner and not your eyes. I keep looking and can't figure out where to look to see AI. She looks so real it's scary
@YunalesckaGames@NeverclipsonX It's not, if it happens it happens, you have to seek it out and cultivate it. Being single isn't a flex. Most people want to find someone to spend their life with.
@BritHugoboom Cucks and reformed hos go together like pb&j. If they're happy, who cares, but I agree that marriage needs a better marketing campaign. This is a terrible example of a healthy marriage ๐คฃ