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Caveman Paws

Nothing as badass as driving around a sleepy town listening to a podcast that talks about diarrhea, while playing a recording of diarrhea.

Suck it squares!

Winky

Hamurabi wrote: »

Mazzyx wrote: »

Winky wrote: »

Holy shit

To my knowledge, there has never been a recorded human culture without dogs.

We commonly acknowledge the fact that we've massively altered the evolution of dogs through artificial selection, but I think we underestimate the degree to which our own evolution has been determined by dogs. The truth is, we've likely been very significantly naturally selected to live alongside dogs.

We don't often think of dogs as necessary for our survival, but I think it's very possible that for the vast majority of human existence we've been completely unable to live without dogs, and this dependence has probably shaped our genes and behavior to a huge degree.

Dogs are literally a human cultural constant; an essential component of mankind.

I think there was a weird break if I remember right. Between some of the proto-civilizations and Egypt or so. We see a break when there are no dogs near human remains and then they pop up again. Now this could just be stuff to do with a change in culture or a health event with in canines but there are a few breaks.

But really we are very adapted to dogs and them to us. Being with and petting dogs produces all sorts of fun chemicals in both brains. Is good for ones health and so on. Also they read us better than we read ourselves which is super cool.

For instance, Asian and Middle Eastern cultures (or at least, South Asian and Middle Eastern) aren't particularly fond of dogs.

Not fond of, no, but still extremely reliant upon.

Ludious

Winky wrote: »

Hamurabi wrote: »

Mazzyx wrote: »

Winky wrote: »

Holy shit

To my knowledge, there has never been a recorded human culture without dogs.

We commonly acknowledge the fact that we've massively altered the evolution of dogs through artificial selection, but I think we underestimate the degree to which our own evolution has been determined by dogs. The truth is, we've likely been very significantly naturally selected to live alongside dogs.

We don't often think of dogs as necessary for our survival, but I think it's very possible that for the vast majority of human existence we've been completely unable to live without dogs, and this dependence has probably shaped our genes and behavior to a huge degree.

Dogs are literally a human cultural constant; an essential component of mankind.

I think there was a weird break if I remember right. Between some of the proto-civilizations and Egypt or so. We see a break when there are no dogs near human remains and then they pop up again. Now this could just be stuff to do with a change in culture or a health event with in canines but there are a few breaks.

But really we are very adapted to dogs and them to us. Being with and petting dogs produces all sorts of fun chemicals in both brains. Is good for ones health and so on. Also they read us better than we read ourselves which is super cool.

For instance, Asian and Middle Eastern cultures (or at least, South Asian and Middle Eastern) aren't particularly fond of dogs.

Not fond of, no, but still extremely reliant upon.

for the protein

simonwolf

Caveman Paws wrote: »

Nothing as badass as driving around a sleepy town listening to a podcast that talks about diarrhea, while playing a recording of diarrhea.

Suck it squares!

Are you blasting it from the speakers attached to your roof, or just quietly listening to it like a square in the privacy of your own car

Abdhyius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3vdZdf3G0k&list=FLTeq0ER6bNGWmtLmAemQCfQ&index=160

I am getting an intense urge to ride across the steppe in a great horde and fuck some people up

Mortious

TehSloth wrote: »

Winky wrote: »

Shivahn wrote: »

I just leaned back and realized there is a cat just hanging out here. That and the dog talk makes me realize how cool having random animals around is.

Like we've got interspecies relationships and trust and stuff. That's cool! And animals that hang out around us cuz they like us.

Neat.

I was actually wondering...the cause of the "Great Leap Forward" in human evolution in which we started to develop huge amounts of our modern intelligence about 80,000 years ago is still somewhat disputed. The oldest evidence we have of domesticated dogs is only ~33,000 years old, but particularly in early domestication it would be very hard to distinguish them from wolves.

What if we owe our intelligence explicitly to dogs? What if social cooperation between species is a large part of what required us to evolve such a huge capacity for thought?

Were the dogs the aliens?

Abdhyius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrNJNv4T9nY&list=FLTeq0ER6bNGWmtLmAemQCfQ&index=156

desc

Abdhyius wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3vdZdf3G0k&list=FLTeq0ER6bNGWmtLmAemQCfQ&index=160

I am getting an intense urge to ride across the steppe in a great horde and fuck some people up

how much horse poop did the guy in the very back have to ride through

Ludious

sometimes I'll be listening to a podcast, and roll down my window or open my door with my door open

then someone says something horrible about cunts or something and I suddenly remember that I am in Mississippi, so I look around to make sure some baptist isn't pulling a gun on me

Dynagrip

Honk wrote: »

Dynagrip wrote: »

i am in the mood for a book i think. possibly something genre. i dunno.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

read it.

South host

TehSloth wrote: »

Why does this mix I'm listening to have the MIB theme song in it?!

All the best mixes include Will Smith songs.

Organichu

so i have a bootable usb drive with windows 7

this laptop came with uefi as the boot scheme, and it won't allow me to shift to legacy in order to adjust the boot order

is there any way to get around this and force boot from usb?

Sarksus

i want dis

skippydumptruck

I love the em dash -- a pause in the sentence!

skippydumptruck

doot doot makin dis chili

desc

"thug theogony" is a great title for a song

Caveman Paws

simonwolf wrote: »

Caveman Paws wrote: »

Nothing as badass as driving around a sleepy town listening to a podcast that talks about diarrhea, while playing a recording of diarrhea.

Suck it squares!

Are you blasting it from the speakers attached to your roof, or just quietly listening to it like a square in the privacy of your own car

It was loud enough to be heard and the windows were down slightly.


Before I panicked square style and rolled up them up.

Baby steps.

Ludious

Sarksus wrote: »

i want dis

But you already have something that shoots blanks

SammyF

Sarksus wrote: »

i want dis

Nerf wasn't nearly so cool back when I was a kid...

desc

sarks that nerf gun has a foregrip and a drum magazine

that is ridic

Abdhyius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C3D0rcFXrY&list=PLIul1nN-WB8984zFS4bYegzZeHZ6Qy3f-&index=4

Abdhyius

I want four nerf machineguns, two on each arm, all fed from a giant barrel of ammo on my back

desc

sarks buy it and affix a laser pointer along the barrel for improved target acquisition laser sight style

skippydumptruck

MY SUBPAR NUB KNIFE CUTS ON THIS RED ONION SURE ARE OBVIOUS >:€

So It Goes

skippydumptruck wrote: »

MY SUBPAR NUB KNIFE CUTS ON THIS RED ONION SURE ARE OBVIOUS >:€

you'll never be a real chef!

Sarksus

desc wrote: »

sarks that nerf gun has a foregrip and a drum magazine

that is ridic

bro

there are clips, drums, and even belts*

The last three years or so Nerf has been going crazy.

*

Some of them also optionally use batteries to provide automatic fire

So It Goes

Sarksus wrote: »

desc wrote: »

sarks that nerf gun has a foregrip and a drum magazine

that is ridic

bro

there are clips, drums, and even belts*

The last three years or so Nerf has been going crazy.

*

Some of them also optionally use batteries to provide automatic fire

blasphemy

South host

I fucking love that ketchup bot! I had no idea it was a series!

Hamurabi

Winky wrote: »

Not fond of, no, but still extremely reliant upon.

Do you have a cite for this? I mean, the best I can think of is my relatives living on farms in Punjab who keep a guard dog -- which is even then viewed as a necessary evil.

The Middle East in general is dog-averse because they're considered unclean animals. Also apparently any dog I see in Amman is probably feral and/or rabid, according to the locals.

simonwolf

I didn't realise chat was being occupied by scruffy-looking nerf-herders today

tyrannus

speaking of blasphemy

hello SiG

Henroid

Sarksus wrote: »

desc wrote: »

sarks that nerf gun has a foregrip and a drum magazine

that is ridic

bro

there are clips, drums, and even belts*

The last three years or so Nerf has been going crazy.

*

Some of them also optionally use batteries to provide automatic fire

What the fuck, Nerf is making everything. I can't wait for the Predator Drone Nerf weapons.

Ludious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGRBjCrnjhs

Abdhyius

I want nerf airburst artillery.

155mm.

Sarksus

The new N-Strike Elite line has blasters (among the Rampage is one) that can fire up to 75 feet stock, 50 feet on a flat trajectory.

They are coming out with this:



with a promised stock firing distance of 100 feet

Hamurabi

Now for Controversy.

(Pet) euthanasia: what's the big deal?

Chanus

Organichu wrote: »

so i have a bootable usb drive with windows 7

this laptop came with uefi as the boot scheme, and it won't allow me to shift to legacy in order to adjust the boot order

is there any way to get around this and force boot from usb?

You should be able to change it in BIOS. Press Del a few times when you first start the laptop up.

So It Goes

where's the ketchup bottle one with the music

Ludious

Hamurabi wrote: »

Now for Controversy.

(Pet) euthanasia: what's the big deal?

I do not have enough information to form an opinion on such a broad topic, but coming from you, you aren't considering women a pet right

So It Goes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcniyQYFU6M&list=PLE2D47175FC04ECBD

the big one teaches the little one !