The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: brushes with Death

[Z_TheWriter]

The Cleveland zoo also had this big central tube-like thing with sharks in it. I think it was totally inhumane, but I loved to look in it. I used to have this fear of the front curved wall disappearing as I looked in on the sharks and falling into the water. It made me dizzy to look in but I loved doing it.

An aquarium around here had one of those too when I was a kid. It was both amazing and scary.
I can't speak to Cleveland Zoo, but in the one here, the tube was just one part of their habitat and the sharks could freely come and go from there. Pretty sure it wasn't inhumane - my country is pretty damn strict on that stuff.

 

[Statius]

I know, instead we are focused on the poundcake thing. Priorities.

Dang, and the more I mention poundcake, the more I wish I had poundcake waiting for me at home.

Maybe I can dress sexy, visit a bar, and hope that a girl with poundcake flirts with me.

Van Halen has a song called pound cake. 51/50 I believe. First with Sammy.

 

[Erozetta]

And then you run into things like the Blue Ringed Octopus, all of 8" long and deadly venomous....

Big or small don't mean they're cuddle-able

*Will still die trying to pet something I shouldn't some day.*

 

[Statius]

I do have a picture of a baby cuttlefish as the lock screen on my phone.

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Looks like it could be a baby Humboldt. Don't pet one of those.

 

[YmaOHyd]

*Will still die trying to pet something I shouldn't some day.*

Everything can be patted. It's just that some things can only be patted once.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I just got a message from AI telling me he's tired of talking about us, too!

 

[Erozetta]

Everything can be patted. It's just that some things can only be patted once.

Precisely.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Actually, now that I think about it, I'm thinking that showing up with a lemon poundcake at the bar might be more successful than either of those. I mean, who doesn't love a nice slice of lemon poundcake offered to them in a bar by a complete stranger?

Well, I doubt I'm the only one that anything lemony gives horrible heartburn to.

I do have a picture of a baby cuttlefish as the lock screen on my phone.

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I recently learned that while cephalopods only have one vision cone in their eyes, the shape of their pupils might actually give them color vision.

 

[iwatchus]

I recently learned that while cephalopods only have one vision cone in their eyes, the shape of their pupils might actually give them color vision.

I did not know that about their lack of multiple cones. Given the color displays they can all produce with their chromophores, I would have expected outstanding color vision

 

[NuclearFairy]

I did not know that about their lack of multiple cones. Given the color displays they can all produce with their chromophores, I would have expected outstanding color vision

Yep, going theory is that the shape of their pupils is what gives them that color vision.

 

[Bamagan]

Brushes with Death, a new series on PBS starring the reanimated remains of painting legend Bob Ross, who will demonstrate how to make charming hellscapes that will turn any room of your house into an existentially horrifying place to occupy.

"Let's put a tortured soul twisted into the form of a happy little tree right next to the lake of fire."
Effortlessly does so.
"Now let's give him a friend."
Makes it look so fucking easy.
"There, that's better. No one should suffer alone."

 

[nice90sguy]

Yep, going theory is that the shape of their pupils is what gives them that color vision.

I had to fact-check that, it seemed so implausible!
I read Other Minds, which is mainly about octopus sense, behaviopur and consciousness, and I'm really suprised the author didn't mention that (or maybe I missed it)

 

[cw5523729]

Brushes with Death, a new series on PBS starring the reanimated remains of painting legend Bob Ross, who will demonstrate how to make charming hellscapes that will turn any room of your house into an existentially horrifying place to occupy.

"Let's put a tortured soul twisted into the form of a happy little tree right next to the lake of fire."
Effortlessly does so.
"Now let's give him a friend."
Makes it look so fucking easy.
"There, that's better. No one should suffer alone."

The ratings for that would be off the charts!!

 

[NuclearFairy]

I had to fact-check that, it seemed so implausible!
I read Other Minds, which is mainly about octopus sense, behaviopur and consciousness, and I'm really suprised the author didn't mention that (or maybe I missed it)

I read about it on Earth Archives in this article Cephalopod eyes: Window to an Alien Existence. I like just roaming their site reading stuff sometimes.

 

[TheLobster]

I'm not sure if "brushes with death" are still the theme of this topic, but if so, then I gotta admit I was sorely tempted to click on this thread:



Thankfully, I resisted it for long enough that the AH_Mod managed to swoop in and close it

 

[crookedletter]

I'm not sure if "brushes with death" are still the theme of this topic, but if so, then I gotta admit I was sorely tempted to click on this thread:

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Thankfully, I resisted it for long enough that the AH_Mod managed to swoop in and close it

6 pages' worth of replies, and not a one, I think, was an offer to be a sugar baby. Very unhelpful bunch here at AH.

 

[SmilingLez]

6 pages' worth of replies, and not a one, I think, was an offer to be a sugar baby. Very unhelpful bunch here at AH.

I take "offense" to your remark. I offered the OP an outlet to get all the sugar babies he wanted.

https://sugarbabiescandy.com/

LOL

helpful I am ( My new palindrome)

 

[crookedletter]

I take "offense" to your remark. I offered the OP an outlet to get all the sugar babies he wanted.

https://sugarbabiescandy.com/

I stand corrected. That's very helpful.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Did they close all the other threads (identicle to that one) I wonder?

 

[cw5523729]

Did they close all the other threads (identicle to that one) I wonder?

His latest one in the Personals forum is still open though, weirdly, still no takers. It's a mystery, I tell you.

Maybe he should try upping his game by offering lemon pound-cake.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

His latest one in the Personals forum is still open though, weirdly, still no takers. It's a mystery, I tell you.

Maybe he should try upping his game by offering lemon pound-cake.

Or eggs?

 

[cw5523729]

Or eggs?

 

[cw5523729]

Or eggs?

Actually I tried that as a pickup line in the bar "Hey baby, wanna play with my eggs?" and oddly, all it ever got me was a slap in a face. Maybe they were all allergic to eggs.

eta: and they were worried it would result in a brush with death. BOOM! I kept it on topic!!!

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Actually I tried that as a pickup line in the bar "Hey baby, wanna play with my eggs?" and oddly, all it ever got me was a slap in a face. Maybe they were all allergic to eggs.

They heard you slipped a raw egg in with the hard -boiled ones before pickling

 

[cw5523729]

They heard you slipped a raw egg in with the hard -boiled ones before pickling

Blasphemy!