that’s both true and completely hilariously incorrect: There is no one “intelligence”, there are effectively infinitely many different kinds of intelligence, but broadly you can break it up into stuff like “emotional intelligence”, “spatial reasoning”, “problem solving”, etc etc.

also it’s not fair to say that cats are less intelligent when no one bothers to train them, the few cats that actually get trained as much as dogs seem to be comparably good at doing quite complex things.

and we then train the domesticated horses from a young age that letting us ride on them is something they WANT to do, because they get snacks and scritches and they get to go outside more.

how did you end up in this thread if you don’t already know what a launcher is?

yeah, turns out it’s really hard to defend against someone swinging a big heavy piece of metal at the side of your head. Best case it really really really fucking hurts and makes it basically impossible to even keep standing, worst case you die instantly in a shower of gore.

The problem is just that you actually have to hit them with the mace, while avoiding the opponent (or their friends) hitting you first.
To get all that power that makes the mace so effective, you have to take a great big swing with it, which is extremely obvious and means you’re wholly committing yourself to the action.
Meanwhile with a sword or spear you can keep it in front of you to defend yourself with, and just make quick jabs at the opponent.

handle should be something along the line of you own height, and the chain should be 0cm so it’s easy to poke the bad man with your spearhead.

it feels like there are 2 kinds of people: those who feel old at 23, and those who don’t stop feeling like a child until every hair on their head and face is gray.

I’d fall into the latter category because i’m 26 and i don’t feel quite adult yet, despite the front of my chin being gray already.

maybe they would remove the TOS crap if enough people shouted at them?

or do you just think we should be good cattle and shut up about bad things

necroposting? your comment seems to be a grand 3 days after theirs lol

hey now be fair, there are absolutely sports fans who think the teams they dislike would be paid too much if their salary consisted of lethal injections.

seriously, there are so many fucking games at this point that the problem is just finding the ones you like.

Remember: Old games are still perfectly fine, people enjoyed them in the past so you can probably enjoy them now, they don’t just become obsolete 5 years after release.

being standard isn’t an excuse, it makes it even more egregious.

i wish agents would at least try to not be insufferable about it, tell me “yeah i know, that’s the way it is” or something so i don’t feel like i’m trying to communicate with some sort of advanced fungus colony…

there are 2 solid low-cost mobile carriers here in sweden, and i literally do this with them. Just hop back and forth every 4 months and you get some sort of deal every single time.

It’s profoundly stupid and makes me hate modern society just that little bit more.

i don’t think it would even be that much of a concern, really. Not only can one person have multiple children (so you can do one surrogate and one genetically yours), but there are plenty of people who’d just be happy they get to give birth to their child and couldn’t care less about genes.

similar DNA is bad actually, the whole point of sexual reproduction is to increase diversity to make the population as robust as possible. If you have a ship full of clones all it takes is one virus/bacteria/fungus mutating in just the wrong way and everyone will get infected.

Like, this is why we got a new type of banana some decades ago, it’s all giant monocultures which is hilariously vulnerable to disease.

i don’t think it’s that fucked up to have everyone with a womb be a surrogate mother, you’d just have to select people who are okay with it. There’s nothing wrong with being a surrogate, it’s basically just adoption except you get to give birth to the child.

just bringing a ton of frozen sperm and eggs is honestly the real answer i feel, why worry about bringing a bunch of living people who need resources and stuff, when you can just bring a quarter of earth’s diversity with you in the freezers?

The two downsides to this is that people can’t really have kids with each other, and if the freezers malfunction you’re a bit in the shit.

if you look closer you’ll note that it’s very much related to whether a company is publicly trader or not, as soon as people are trading stocks you end up with a bunch of people who don’t actually care about the company and those involved in it, they only care about making money.

a company that isn’t having stocks traded around is able to focus on things other than growth, such as making sustainable revenue or being a public good (or a personal good, like a small café that barely makes any profit and just exists because the owners want to run a café).

because capitalism