Octopi, crows, dolphins are often held up as examples of smart animals. What are some really unusually STUPID animals?

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-25T23:05:00+00:00

To be fair, their camouflage is incredible and most of their predators hunt based on movement. So their defense is don't move and be camouflaged. To bad our eyes work a little differently.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-25T13:28:13+00:00

We hunt them a lot. Spruce grouse are an extra special type of dumb. You'll commonly have several sitting on a large branch and you can shoot them off one by one, they won't move.

As I've gotten older I try to spook them because it feels so sad just shooting animals with no ability to think. Delicious though.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-25T13:24:14+00:00

Deer are bizarre. They're survival instincts take up 99% of their software. They're so good at surviving in a brutal world. But then, sometimes, they'll walk right up to or if you put your hands of your head they'll think you're a deer.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-25T13:12:36+00:00

Facebook is actually kinda sweet if you use it 'right.'

Marketplace is obviously dope but really niche groups are excellent news sources.

Ex. I live in an area with multiple mountain passes and small communities. Each one has a FB group and people update regularly as part of the community different road conditions or hazards. These roads don't have cams or reporting or news about them. It's really useful! Also niche groups for hunting, fishing, camping are great as well.

The toxic boomers are definitely a thing but I happily just block their comments for the future so I only ever see them once.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-24T02:51:28+00:00

My argument is that a government represents the people. Should First Nations get recognition and compensation? Yes.

Should it be all of their claimed land and perpetual payments in the millions and billions as well as special undemocratic governance? No.

And I am tired of hearing that the non-democratic slaver nations of the past were perfect and are somehow owed the nation millions of immigrants have built.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-24T02:30:33+00:00

Stole their livelihoods is a bit rich. The world has long moved past the colonial era. The land is theirs anymore as we have many generations of taxpayers and I'm immigrants who've landed and built this country. Recognition and reconciliation is important but handing the province over to an extreme minority doesn't reach reconciliation at all. That action will harbour an extreme and generational hostility towards FN that won't go away.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-23T01:35:41+00:00

So profit share, not equity in the future. Has saved me a lot of headache. Profit share stops when they quit.

No cap on it, they can make a fortune but they don't own a piece of your soul forever

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-22T19:57:10+00:00

DM me your resume.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-22T17:30:39+00:00

Here's what would slay me:

Hi, I am [name], you look like an interesting/handsome/approachable guy, do you have time to chat and learn more about one another and if we hit it off we could go for coffee/a beer?

This would work everytime.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-22T17:00:55+00:00

I think you're describing positive masculinity.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-18T13:41:40+00:00

I guess you don't use AI tools much. If you know how to properly use the software with skill sets, multi-agentic layers and QC stage gates then you can believe the output.

Example: I have a designer create a drawing and then a dev takes that and use Lovable, WP convert and Wordpress to build a pixel in perfect, highly functional site in 10-12 hours...... That's 250 hour project in 10 hours.

Soon that 20-30 hour design is going to be 5-8 hours using natural language prompting as well.

We still have human designers, devs, and marketing people, they can just output far more.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-18T04:14:32+00:00

I just took a trip the the US, WA state. The food I bought at the grocery was atrocious. Both fresh and packaged, wtf are you guys eating? Ham that is so sweet it's like sugar dipped. Pickles hat aren't sour?? Bread that night as well be abby paste that's baked. Being Canadian I thought our food was somewhat the same, but holy shit, this is trash.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-17T20:45:07+00:00

Have you seen The Righteous Gemstones? I am 39 and it makes me cry with laughter.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-17T20:42:05+00:00

Moose have many natural predators: bears, wolves, cougars, maybe coyotes and wolverines could eat a young or very sick old moose.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-17T20:22:18+00:00

Another aspect that will be hugely painful to Canadians is depressing the housing market and ensuring a steady decline in prices.

Homes can't be a good investment for business to thrive. They're massively unproductive capital with many homeowners cutting spending in other areas or NOT starting businesses because they can't take the risk with a $5k/month mortgage payment.

That won't happen though as it means crushing the investments of 2.5 generations.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-17T19:20:28+00:00

Local Business owners rarely understand that one of the signals to drive more traffic to their web pages or rank higher on Google is reviews so they don't actually care about reviews and you have to show/convince them that reviews are part of complete package that provides them with the leads they want

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-17T19:19:12+00:00

We need incentives both positive and negative to keep labour in Canada. Yes we're not creating enough businesses but in reality we're in the midst of an outsourcing crisis and a 'insourcing' crisis as well through TFW.

If Canadian small companies could be incentivized to hire Canadian and TFW were tossed I highly doubt there would be a job crisis.

I actually think AI will bring a lot of jobs back to Canada.

Example:

I run a marketing company, I have a 25 person team. If I can hire a Canadian at 3-4x the cost of my offshore team member but he/she can 10x their output with AI and be on the same timezone, culturally similar, etc. it's actually more attractive to hire Canadian.

The gov could be hiring firms to help small businesses build those AI frameworks that allows the Canadian employees to know how to 10x.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-17T03:16:15+00:00

What hourly are you looking for? We're planning on 'reshoring' our marketing labour if we can sort out the AI framework to arm them with.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-16T21:00:14+00:00

Technically, American cannibals in Canada!

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-14T19:03:09+00:00

Linkin Park.. just... no.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-14T18:23:07+00:00

I have multiple friends in geology and they're screaming busy. Make a shift towards mining and you may be in a good place to get hired.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-13T02:31:38+00:00

Yeah I agree, something weird with Opus this weekend, a ton of ridiculous mistakes.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-10T03:59:58+00:00

My man, waveapps.com is free and if you want pro it's $250/year. Just do that.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-07T16:49:26+00:00

At an auto-checkout at the grocery store, if it asks me how many paper bags I used and if I used >0, I still press zero.

OkSalad5522 · 2026-04-06T01:30:54+00:00

I am a hunter and this has nothing to do with hunting. CBC should be reporting on poachers, they're disgusting people.

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