#81
Ah... *cracks beer* the zzone. .
#82
E. O Wilson died recently. rumor is it was while reading this thread.

#83

tears posted:

Certainly the spider does not learn to spin its web by observation or through being taught, it probably ate its mother as well


part of a paper I'm currently writing includes a brief tangent on instinct (from the perspective of the instinct-intellect relation in Bergson) and i like this post so much i would plagiarize this part if i wasn't morally averse, or if i thought citing a forum post in my thesis would pass muster

#84
love to view completely readable threads like these, thank you for bumping
#85
get ready for, biosemiotics
#86

aerdil posted:

love to view completely readable threads like these, thank you for bumping


everyone can still read my posts so i am not seeing what the issue is here?

#87

aerdil posted:

love to view completely readable threads like these, thank you for bumping


i remember when i was young my mother was listening to some hip hop radio edit and she remarked afterward that the silences scattered throughout the track in place of cusswords lent it an almost meditative quality at times — like the rapper was just allowing the previous thought to permeate the air and then fade

and that's, i think, maybe a good way to view the proverbial swiss-cheese threads

#88

aerdil posted:

love to view completely readable threads like these, thank you for bumping



the summary is that a poster prone to manic leaps in logic on scientific topics tried to draw a bunch of shaky comparisons between humans and eusocial insects and got owned, then followed the likely path to becoming a "vaccine skeptic", melted down, was ifapped and ragequit the forums

#89

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#90
almost met up with Toyotathon at a grover furr talk thing. *I* actually showed up.... he was a no show. Still got grover's business card :D
#91
i doublepostered
#92

Themselves posted:

almost met up with Toyotathon at a grover furr talk thing. *I* actually showed up.... he was a no show. Still got grover's business card :D


is his card just for his university job or does he have a cool custom one for stalin related engagements?

#93
toyo if u read this i still think of you as a true rad :P
#94

lo posted:

Themselves posted:

almost met up with Toyotathon at a grover furr talk thing. *I* actually showed up.... he was a no show. Still got grover's business card :D

is his card just for his university job or does he have a cool custom one for stalin related engagements?



It's a regular Montclair university card. I can't seem to find it or I would post a photo :( :( :(