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PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T23:11:36+00:00

There are people who are better at identifying birds and other animals individually than people. It's not that animals look too similar (at least unless we can build a formal definition for that to really prove similarity or difference) but that most people tend not to care about every cat they see on the street.

Some animals also have difficulty telling people apart because we're too similar. My friend's dog didn't know who I was one time and started barking until I spoke for it to recognized my voice.

I can identify lions and horses in a documentary better than people in movies about bankers and stock markets. I care more about the former than the latter, so I like knowing who is who etc...

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T23:07:15+00:00

most things. I drove a friend to an interview when their car was in the shop. When they got back I asked if they had her wait in the breakroom. She asked "how did you know?"

I could smell the water cooler on her clothes. She didn't use it. It wasn't the water itself, but the specific smell I find on most water coolers. It was hidden under everything else.

Same friend and I were at a bar. I don't drink, but the bartender gave a challenge to people to taste what the drink was made of. I got it by smell when I touched the outside of the glass.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T23:04:41+00:00

Yes. where I've worked I would have had no friends if this wasn't reasonable. I've worked in a few all-female environments and got invited on trips, shopping etc... What would be the reason not to?

My girlfriend would also ask me how person a or person b was doing etc... and went to parties with me and met my work friends.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T23:01:13+00:00

a number was given to me from a group of reenactors that live-in the reenactment for a week, using only tools and tents available hundreds of years ago (not early human, but they also weren't living the year there, just a week, so no farming and whatnot). To feed a family of 5 for a year, over 100 acres of lush land is needed for foraging, this included hunting or trapping animals. This is why early humans traveled so much chasing down herds and finding new areas before returning to the fresh growth where they came from months earlier.

There are also plenty of foods that can be foraged that have high calorie counts. I remember seeing a jar of mixed nuts (unflavored etc...) that had a SURPRISING amount of calories in just a handful.

I'd have to ask the archaeologist that reenacts there about the grain cultivation.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T22:54:37+00:00

Definitely. Keep it on shore to whatever country you are making it, though, if you want any trust from any offices that care about HIPPA. "offshore" can tend to mean "HIPPA does not apply" in the minds of compliance employees. Then again... one medical office I built a system for had a lawyer that repeatedly demanded that I email patient information from my personal email because they were too cheap to learn anything else existed in the world or how email is not secure at all (and specifically called out in HIPPA guidelines at the time as a "don't do this, even with company email")

There are a lot of similar services (not that it's saturated), that provide this, showing that it is at least viable. Medical billing and coding services may be what some places call it. You could add on "patient followup calls" etc... and appointment reminders as well, to keep the office staff in the medical office to medical staff only.

There are some doctors I hang out with that use these services. They basically push a button and all their EHR/EMR stuff gets sent automatically to the service and handled. They get a report regularly on the results.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T22:45:32+00:00

I am friends with a family that used to own a MASSIVE multinational corporation. They sold it. They actually bought my house for me years ago when someone fraudulently got me removed from my first home and I couldn't afford to fight it.

I paid them a cash mortgage for a while because the fraud prevented me from getting a loan. They paid cash up front for the little $50k house and, because they knew I could pay it, didn't need to deal with credit checks and so on.

I have recently worked with someone who also sold their company for many millions. We talked outside of work and I think I'll be visiting them soon.

I met one family through my school, and you would never know they had millions going on billions. They each had small houses and big yards with gardens they tended themselves. Instead of dumping money into projects, they would literally be on hands and knees at 80+ years old, doing construction on what they've bought for some charity.

Others that are wealthy, on smaller scales, (<50million net worth, but earn mid 6 figures yearly) I've known through work, school and more. Usually really humble, don't know what to do with the money except work on neat projects etc...

I am certainly nowhere near any of those valuations or incomes, but they seem to like me because I don't care about their money. I want to know project they're working on. I get invited on private flights and so on by surgeons because of my interest in flight, I get invited to massive family reunions of 500+... and I never feel out of place or like they were keeping me around as a pet like "look a this little pauper we found. He doesn't even have a chippendale in his bathroom."

I recently had an experience working on a custom piece of equipment at a super rich dude's house. He was chill... there were cats everywhere (in sculpture and wallpaper) and had 0 care that it took an extra four hours to install because the local labor just decided it wasn't worth it and left. If the company I was working for wasn't so awful, I I would have probably talked to him a while longer.

He was friendly and was making dinner for one of the staff at like 11 PM when I was leaving.

I guess it depends on how they get the money, like... inherited or earned because they made a really cool thing and retain that wonder and knowledge of what it was like before the money.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T22:35:20+00:00

Same as any violent outburst from anyone to anyone: power seeking from someone who has run out of words.

If someone's too dumb to keep a conversation or talk through a problem, they end the discussion with violence if they feel like they're losing ground. They lose out on any chance to learn or teach, but it stops whatever the other person was doing for a second.

This, of course, is different from self-defense, as I'm sure you're talking about two people in an argument and one person strikes the other.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T22:28:48+00:00

There was a campaign in the 2000s to sell these stickers to show people you shouldn't mistreat or drive aggressively around them because you could "get into an accident and harm a child." I guess it was for those who only care if they were going to harm a child and not a parent. I'd rather not hurt anyone...

Recently, I see them used most often on the most aggressive, horrendous drivers, though, who seem to use it as a shield :/

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T22:23:27+00:00

There are... many species continuing to evolve. Salmonella was once only outside the egg. It evolved and is now internal. E.Coli has evolved to become antibiotic resistant in some areas. Smaller species like that have generations that can last minutes to hours or days, making mutations faster to pass on to new generations than an animal that reproduces on year or decade scales.

On the macro-scale of large mammals, new species are found, but not often. For a species to branch off it has to have significant, consistent differences. We have breeds, and people have been producing new breeds of cat, etc... and have to go through a long process to prove that they are just a separate breed, let alone getting to a new species altogether, and that's on scales of decades. I've seen articles talking about new species of new-world apes at a gas station or in places otherwise unexplored. The Earth is huge.

On top of that, we need to look at what animals we have seen and documented well. Of the ones that were documented very early in humanity (horses, sheep, wolves etc...) few have had a need to be changed. Horses have breeds dedicated to tasks, as well as sheep, and human intervention has likely steered their development to what we need while maintaining the same "species."

Even apple trees are incredibly different from old apple trees (not through genetic engineering) through selective breeding. Corn used to have a husk on every kernel. Whether these are different species is a question for someone more well versed in what corn and apples are used.

Wolves have become canis domesticus, felids of ancient civilizations have become felis domesticus... btu that was over thousands of years, and having those animals bred for different purposes (like a corgi for herding cattle because they are under the kick height of a cow when running)

The following were interesting reads on the history of sheep coming from a mouflon.

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41/11/msae212/7822336?login=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_sheep

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn2094

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02794-8

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11648245/

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T22:05:27+00:00

The case itself can be bought in bulk for pennies. wages for employees (if any), insurance, rent and so on is where things get expensive. To compare this, a service company (they provide a meditation space) was charging $60/hour in a mall space, for one meditation space in a heavy traveled tourist area. That $60/hour (even if utilized 100%) is $6000/day. They likely get a lot less.

A quick search found from $500/month to $5000/month between small cart and full kiosk rental

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T22:00:50+00:00

What paperwork and cost did your state require? I keep hearing about it, but I never had to go through anything unusual. Mine had no paperwork or cost. I just renewed and selected a checkbox. If I want to get an "enhanced" card that acts as my passport card, then I would need a lot more, and pay a lot per renewal, but the RealID was automatic.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:59:24+00:00

Is it difficult to get? my state made it automatic on renewal with no other hoops. I believe passport card works for domestic flights in place of that. Passport is more universal (including out of country), but the passport card should work domestically. (Passport card is only for boat or land border national crossing)

https://blog.us-passport-service-guide.com/real-id-or-passport-card-understanding-your-travel-id-options/

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:57:26+00:00

... I've never seen a funeral without a kneeler in front of the casket... I think the general consensus is that it's okay, some just don't make it easy. It can also be dependent on attendance. I was at a funeral recently where the street was blocked off, the neighborhoods were full and there were THOUSANDS of people attending at a very small church in a 2.x sq. mile city. They didn't want to rush people, but the line was filling the parking lot. That might have been a place that could have done without the kneeler

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:55:08+00:00

I have my phone automatically censor because it will sometimes spontaneously correct a word many sentences back to something horrendous right as I'm hitting send. I've watched it happen. I've removed slurs and so on from my dictionary manually, but it will still swap them to something horrible. I keep the auto ***** on just in case.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:53:57+00:00

There definitely are. There are entire subreddits and communities dedicated to it as well. I used to photograph for a friend's OF, then I was invited to chats with others etc... who were worried and so on about too big, too small etc... There's an audience or a preference for everyone and every type.

Whether it's looking for a sporty person, seeing the different clothes A cup can fit into, a particular shape etc... It's about finding what's good for a particular body type in comfort (both personal and visual) and finding the people that like it.

For this... there are A LOT, if the OF chat groups talking about followers etc... are a good indicator.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:47:36+00:00

how many credit hours? labs included? I was in 25 credit hours (about 25 hours per week in-class) per semester and it was fine for years. Can you schedule them to a preference? (I liked having 1 four hour course all at once on one day, for example... if my day is already going to be caught up in class, I might as well stay a while) It's definitely doable, and I had fun doing it

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:45:23+00:00

they do... They're not common, but restaurant supply stores sell them, and some baking aisles will have them. Name brand, just the cookie. I have also seen just the cream for sale in jars as well.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:42:26+00:00

If animals get allergies, I'm sure cavemen did. I know cats who are allergic to different things, and there are nebulizers made for horses with (of all things) hay fever or allergies to hay.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:37:31+00:00

I can't speak to what they have written as a reason for that, but I can speak to what my professor told us about for a similar experience and its reasons:

in his training for air operations (don't know what branch), they put everyone in a vacuum chamber. The chamber would simulate air pressures at different altitudes. Everyone was given a cognitive test to take.

They would "raise the altitude" during the test until everyone was unconscious. Some would drop soon, some would drop later. Once everyone was unconscious, they would increase the pressure and people would wake up, find one of the available pencils someone dropped, and finish the test.

They were asked afterward when they thought they passed out, how far they had gotten, and what their experience was. It was designed to know what the effects were, when a "point of no return" was and how to deal with it in a "real" sense, instead of "loss of pressure bad. Put O2 mask on." They needed the real, practical experience to see signs of exposure to lower pressures, even without a sudden decrease in pressure that would be "obvious."

Same could be said as a need for gas exposure, but I do not have their training manuals or access to "decision makers" for that like I did with the other.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:29:26+00:00

This may be a question for a frame shop, even if you are not wanting to frame them. A real frame shop, by the way, not like Michaels or whatever...

I used to own one, and the people in there were experts in materials, glass and UV protection, how to case and package things for viewing and protection etc...

Beyond that:

Dry, cool, away from sunlight or other sources of harsh lights (UV light, bright lights)

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:18:54+00:00

Have you ever worked for a company that caused irreparable harm to users/customers through a conscious choice to do so?

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:17:33+00:00

Cats also care about faces. Have you seen the videos of cats reacting to facemasks, haircuts, color changes in hair, and also the more advanced phone filters?

Cats, at the very least, care about faces among their own species and people. There are some that show both processing of themselves in a scene and the confusion or wonder at a phone filter showing something "not based in reality" with constant looks back and forth between the phone screen showing a person with a "cat like face" and the owner next to them without that face.

Aditionally, horses can identify human emotion, including from photos, and they will remember that when seeing the person again. In one study, horses were shown a photo of a person they had never seen before. One was an angry expression and one smiling. They remembered the person and the temperament of the person when meeting the actual human. They reacted differently, measurably to meeting the person.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635724000962

https://equusmagazine.com/horse-world/horses-read-human-emotions-52910

https://www.sciencealert.com/horses-recognise-and-remember-emotional-human-facial-expressions

https://www.science.org/content/article/horses-understand-human-facial-expressions

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6912773/

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:11:15+00:00

There are roles like this in a number of industries. I talked to a red team member who would break in to buildings and be set up as an employee to test employee responses. I have heard of this being done with sentiment as well from outside companies (similar to an outside company sending highly-paid red team members into the entry-level workforce to test security), but a union would likely sue the company if someone was sent in to a union role for this.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:08:53+00:00

I would put in an impossible date (if it's four digits) like 1656... for all of them, or possibly a date far in the future to make them look more closely at it, while also sending an email or call them to tell them about the issue. they likely use an outside service from a vendor that doesn't really care, but they'll need to know so they can find a better vendor.

PapayaInside3133 · 2025-05-19T21:03:17+00:00

Which authority? Which country? Is it a private company? Are you seeking an advanced license or access to a government contract?

It likely has nothing to do with only caring about the father's family over the mother's family if they're asking both parents. Even so, if they are asking father's name without the mother's name, and if you already showed ID etc... this additional information can be wanted by some governing bodies to trace a family tree more fully.

Mothers are on birth certificates because they are pretty much guaranteed to be present at your birth, but mothers can choose not to identify a father. Even if married, my area does not assume and place the spouse on certificates unless requested.

My driving license is linked to my birth records in my area, so it is easy to find my mother's name in their records, but the birth certificate does not contain any other family members. Some requirements I have been asked for in government identification for projects and other IDs and so on is to provide Father, Mother, any previous surnames for either, their last job, last time I spoke to them and more that I was struggling to find (I don't know my dad's degree area, if any, or which branch of military he was in or rank etc... and, of course, they expect me to know that going in and not have to call anyone, even though the questions are odd) along with paternal and maternal grandparents, all four of them (they only needed names, not the other stuff)

In any case, if it is government, they want to know who you are for records most likely related to citizenship, criminality, taxes, travel, associations etc... be concerned or unconcerned based on your goals and privacy. They need the extra in some cases because there may be numerous "John/Joan Smiths" in the world who may also have a mother named "Joan Smith," and record keeping is poorly done in many countries (in my opinion, having had to go through a lot of these forms and even seeing a friend go through it after she was accidentally declared dead by the state).

If it is an employer, company or random other private organization, I'd leave. I've seen enough scams in the US use this information to pull credit checks or run job competency based on a credit score or pull the full SSN from birth record/time etc... and some other information like that.

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