*can’t use language as much as we can: AS FAR AS WE CAN CURRENTLY TELL. Which isn’t all that much tbh

Me, I think birds are already there, full nouns & verbs. And I highly suspect insects have language systems too. I don’t mean some loose definition like like ants and chemical markers, or emotional expressions.

I mean what linguists mean: units of expression- sound (hand shapes, in signed langs) which recombine to signify different things, in a productive way, allowing for level upon level of transmission of thoughts. It’s a high bar to qualify as human language. And I think probably some nonhuman animals have it, and we’re just not listening closely enough.

But the closer we look.

(And yes there’s a Ted Chiang story about this)

I am interested in taking ideas from historical costuming and applying them to modern garments ("history bounding") and something that keeps jumping out at me is how smart people in the past were, especially regular, working people. In modern times, people tend to act like people were stupid just because modern medicine and science didn't exist, but if you study enough to understand some of the reality of historical people's lives, there are some really nifty solutions. It makes me think a lot about "intelligence", and how limited our understanding of it is if we are so unable to think of pre-modern people as intelligent.

That's a big tangent to your comment, but it's ultimately heading in the same direction. I'm also jazzed to see cognitive science continue to increase its understanding of non-human intelligence; it's really cool to see what we can discover when we stop projecting ourselves so hard onto other creatures.

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I've noticed this too.

I guess I'll say "same" too. Not the only feed, but it's a noticeable one.

I have not noticed this and I'm on a different instance. Figured some data to the contrary would be helpful as well.

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Just want to report that I don't have this problem with my lemdro.id account using Voyager app. Not sure why.

Iirc someone said it's because of the different version?

rats are simply too smart man, I recently became an owner of two rat boys and in two months they learnt to open their cage (first two weeks actually), foiled my ratproofing 5 separate times, learnt they get farther into the forbidden zone (the bin) if i'm not looking and redecorated their cage too many times to count. All those smarts and they're using so much of it for crimes

You cannot contend with the power of love

Nono keep going.

on my old drive to work there used to be a horse that belonged to the Traveller community (rural england) with a fucking massive dong it used to wave at all the traffic 🥲

Watch us,,,

Using ",,," as ellipses here is a pretty interesting tone indication feature!

On Tumblr, "..." ended up having connotations of judgement or anger, so to avoid that, people evolved to use ",,," as a softer version (often implying a more silly/amused tone) instead !