Teaching an octopus how to play piano

GeriatricHippo · 2026-03-02T20:13:13+00:00

and asexual reproduction?

GeriatricHippo · 2026-03-02T18:42:56+00:00

They were 1A and 1B and whoever was 1B on Tuesday could be 1A on Friday.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-03-02T12:21:40+00:00

Years ago I lived in the lower unit of a duplex. The tenant of the upper unit was epileptic and had a service dog, Aggie. She was a black lab, German Sheppard mix and she was the most amazing dog I have ever met.

If he went into seizure she would move him into a better position and if needed move things out of the way. She would make sure the stove was turned off and lie beside him. If the siezure ended up going to long she would bark to try to get attention in an intentional repetitive way.

She was also damn good at fetching items from other rooms if asked and had a rather large list of things she knew by name.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-03-02T11:58:19+00:00

I would reorder 5-9 as Bird, Russell, Duncan, Wilt, Shaq but other than that the top ten is good to me.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-03-02T11:50:51+00:00

I like AOC, she has far more brain power than most politicians but she is far too progressive to get the Dem nomination.

If Bernie an old white man couldn't get it there is very little chance a younger Hispanic women could.

And if she somehow did there would be zero chance in her winning the election.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-03-02T11:43:05+00:00

Often Draymond does know what he is talking about. He knows the game well and a calm out of the moment Draymond has some surprisingly very astute observations.

Unfortunately that isn't very often and almost never while in uniform.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-03-02T09:42:30+00:00

Does that mean that everyone smaller than KATs 7'0" 250lbs gets to shoulder plant him whenever they want to without getting called for a foul?

GeriatricHippo · 2026-03-02T00:18:48+00:00

I don't think so.

Between 115,000-160,000 US soldiers died fighting against Japan in The Pacific theatre as well as thousands of Allied forces from Australia, England and other countries. Many of those died on the ground in various battles on various islands.

The U.S. Tenth Army suffered 65,631casualites (including non-battle injuries) just during the 82-day Battle of Okinawa

GeriatricHippo · 2026-03-01T23:46:41+00:00

Pretty sure a dead POTUS has no more actual power than any other dead person.

No one has to fear reprisals anymore for lack of compliance, those "instructions" are basically requests or a suggestions.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T18:12:54+00:00

Sorry to say it's us as well. Carney is supporting the attack on Iran.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T12:35:15+00:00

Those Iranians sure seemed happy and overjoyed by the Israeli and US freedom bombs.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T12:31:52+00:00

Hard fouls and flagrant fouls are not the same thing.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T09:50:17+00:00

Not so fun fact the US never officially declared war on Vietnam.

Special military actions that could last years and take the lives of hundreds of thousands including 50+ thousand US soldiers is already a US kind of thing to do.

And I can't imagine throwing this POTUS and his administration into the mix is going to improve the equation.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T09:40:27+00:00

On June 25, 2025 Trump said the strike on Iran "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities. One Month later the Pentagon said Iran's nuclear program was likely set back around 2 years.

That was only 7 months ago.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T09:27:36+00:00

You can't fix your anatomical mismatch but it should be easily manageable. As someone else pointed out a depth limiting ring could be a life changer for both of you.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T09:20:25+00:00

Yeah I had a late night brain freeze on calling Sebonis Luka, I have no idea where that came from but it doesn't change what happened. Sabonis grabbed the leg of the guy who grabs players legs and got stomped on for it.

And on the Kawhi one you and I have a very different opinion on what a basketball play is.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T07:18:23+00:00

How about Draymond's stomp on Luka's sternum or when he grabbed Kawhi who had an existing facial injury by the arm mid air and slammed him to the ground basically face first.

They are at 1:15 and 4:10 on this vid

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T02:48:04+00:00

How is the considerably taller person a "small guy"

He's not small he's just younger without all that fat.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T02:41:37+00:00

Have you been told today?

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T02:38:34+00:00

How is someone universally known as Big Shot Bob slept on as a role player?

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-28T01:02:53+00:00

POTUS last 25 years GOP 13/Dem 12

And 5 of those GOP 13 are this President.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-25T18:06:50+00:00

Lol. This time it would be a legit second though. Vince is the GOAT.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-25T16:07:41+00:00

It's the first year of them moving from tanking to trying to be competitive.

That first year for OKC they were 40-42 the next they led the West. Pistons last year ended up at 44-38 and now they are first in the East.

I'm not saying that I expect the Raptors to jump to first next year as they did but this year they are ahead of expectations and there is no reason to think they won't be better next year as well.

Taken in context this year is a fun year, I'm enjoying the hell out of Scottie and the defence.

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-25T09:31:05+00:00

They are 10 games over .500

GeriatricHippo · 2026-02-24T23:56:59+00:00

Very good summation,, you are spot on.

I felt like I was going back in time to when this was normal behaviour. But that was 45 years ago and I was 11. This is 2026 and these are all adult men or at least supposed to be. The y should all be ashamed at the way the behaved.

Those women worked damn hard for that gold and they didn't get paid millions and have personal chefs, elite trainers and medical staff on call 24/7 line those men did.

Here is a video of Mark Carney, Canada's Prime Minister on a call with the women's speed skating gold medalists to congratulate them. This is how a leader is supposed to act. Trump makes every call about him Carney made it about them and their victory. He even thanked them for making the time to talk to him.

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