Dasus
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As always, the ancient Romans had that.
A nomenclator referred to a slave whose duty was to recall the names of persons his master met during a political campaign. Later, the scope was expanded to include names of people in any social context and also other socially important information about them.
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Delusion
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 1 week ago:
Dc++ as well
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- Comment on Anting 1 week ago:
Fucking English collective nouns. :D
I actually had a raven once, I was so surprised. I was just being followed by Muninn, as normal, saw him, he glid a bit next to me while I was going to the store. Got them a bag full of balls, put it all out there on a field and stayed and watched.
I live in the outskirts of the city, so not too urban, but also not too unurban… There’s places within like 5km I know there’s ravens. But usually they’re not here.
Muninn saw me going to the store, glid aside me, I got them a bag… Oh wait I wrote that earlier.
Anyway that’s when I saw this
The scale isn’t evident from this photo, sorry. But ravens are huge compared to hooded crows which are like twice the size of magpies. Ravens are like 80cm from beak to tail. So many while I was in the army. Gorgeous corvids.
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I’m pretty sure that only applies due to a majority of people being morons. There’s a vast gap between the 2% most intelligent, 1/50, and the average intelligence.
Also please put digital text on white on black instead of the other way around
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black on white, ew
- Comment on Anting 1 week ago:
Well I’d say few friends then whole lot of trolls. Some other birds have begun taking notice, but I’m not going to feed the seagulls. (Although they’re not as dumb as they look and can live several decades.)
Basically there was a nesting pair or crows on top of a building I lived next to, and I lived on the sixth floor. So I began to mimic their head movements, to line myself with the position of their beak. Mirroring, you know.
Then it took a while and I got them to come get some opportunistic foods from the windowsill and now they just remember me. They had a nestling at one point, definitely. There were three, imo.
Magpies there’s loads can’t keep track. One fat one though, he was a proper fatty boom batty one spring when I’d been leaving out basically whole bags of meatballs, like 400g a bit shy of a pound. I was sort of proud, he/she looked pretty healthy, despite the harsh winter.
I have the images in my old phone I see if I’ll care enough to post some.
Idk if magpies are assholes, per se. Definitely eager, I would say. The crows are always having trouble with them. I have trouble not imagining it as WWII bombers (the crows) getting harassed by multiple smaller bogies (the magpies).
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It’d be sweeter if I had a house and could arrange a spot to do it reliably. Now its just me relying on them spotting me. But it’s kinda fun, as sometimes when I’m scooting/cycling to the store, Muninn will glide next to me a bit to remind me he’s there and to get him something as well.
I don’t always buy them meatballs and there’s been plenty of bans for bird feeding.
In my last apartment I accidentally taught a squirrel to plunder aparments, because I fed the crows from my windowsill.
Then I got fed up with finding squirrel poop in my kitchen so one time I caught him in a large see through moving box and put him in time out for a few hours. (I made sure there were s few twigs, water and some food in the box.) I don’t know whether he leaned his lesson, but the crows certainly learned and followed me despite the move. I only moved like 150 meters as the crow flies, hehe. So it was easy of them to still follow me while not needing to change where they nested.
I’m sort of coloured like a big black crow often, as well. Gray and black.
But sometimes it’s kinda hard to know whether I’m imagining them having followed me and just looking at some random crows. As sometimes they follow me even when I take the bus.
But I go to supermarkets which are like 2-4km again as the crow flies (pun’s getting old tho). So it’s reasonable they do follow me. Especially in winter when it’s hard for them to find food, not as much in the summer.
Also magpies and a blackbird, I think but less so. The magpies don’t follow as far, but there’s more of them and they’re more nimble, so if I feed the crows near my house, the magpies might disturb them. Which is why I feel like they follow me to the stores a bit further away.
Idk it’s not too empirical but I’m definitely karmically positive when it comes to crows.
My ultimate fantasy would be to train them well enough to perch on the sleeves. That would be rad, but I don’t believe it’s realistic.
Hugin and Munin Fly every day Over all the world; I worry for Hugin That he might not return, But I worry more for Munin
— From Grímnismál
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Oh well. Read about it now, and realised you’re right, I wasn’t aware, but now that I recall, people have memed about him a lot to me because I’m a bit of a crow fanatic as well.
I’ve friend crows. They follow me around and I give them meatballs when I visit the store.
I call this one Muninn Blackbreast.
- Comment on Are we the dark timeline? 1 week ago:
Sod’s law, innit?
- Comment on Anting 1 week ago:
Uhm, no, not the same thing.
That’s like saying “pasta” is the same as “spaghetti”. Spaghetti is pasta, like jackdaw is a crow, but “crow” is contextual. Where I live, it means the European hooded crow, but in Australia, it wouldn’t. Just like pasta can refer to spaghetti or macaroni.
A crow is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.
- Comment on Anting 1 week ago:
We Finns actually also practice it.
Not too common, but definitely not unheard of.
Ant hill = muurahaispesä , to sit = istuu/istua istu*
Look it up in YT I’m sure there’s more than enough results
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Reintroducing wolves won’t work everywhere.
Hunting can be an effective population control as well, but seeing how large and sparsely populated Yellowstone is, it’s probably why it didn’t work there.
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- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
I create an immovable basketball hoop.
You have an unstoppable basketball.
What’s the issue?
- Comment on The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next 2 weeks ago:
material economic conditions, not by jumping up and down on their own dicks the way America is handling it.
Except the US is about to suffer those material economic conditions because they’re jumping on their own dicks.
“Revenge” I believe is the correct word
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-AwCl4jr9w
3.word slogans are old as fuck and still going strong
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so I can now put my spicy pillows in the oven and tell the insurance men the internet told me to?
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 3 weeks ago:
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But it’s also not: I can do whatever I want and buy whatever I want and never have to think about money again.
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 3 weeks ago:
I’m middle class and I haven’t been able to afford to go to the dentist is about 20 years.
That doesn’t sound right.
- Comment on Moar garlic 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure you mean one head of garlic there buddy.
Can’t you read, it said three.
I’ve started making extra when cooking then storing it in the fridge for the coming week to slap on everything.
Peel a few heads of garlic and put them in a food blender with a little bit of rapeseed etc oil (not olive, cause then it’ll harden in the fridge), then you get a nice white paste you can just smack into things and it’ll store pretty damn well. So well I don’t think I’ve ever even considered it might be off because a box like that won’t last a week.
But white isn’t the most appetising colour, pale white at least, so toss in a habanero or two and it’ll have a beautiful orange colour.
- Comment on Moar garlic 3 weeks ago:
You could just use rapeseed etc oil to avoid it going solid in the fridge, unless there’s a specific reason why you use olive oil?
- Comment on Moar garlic 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure you mean one head of garlic there buddy.
Can’t you read, it said three.
I’ve started making extra when cooking then storing it in the fridge for the coming week to slap on everything.
Peel a few heads of garlic and put them in a food blender with a little bit of rapeseed etc oil (not olive, cause then it’ll harden in the fridge), then you get a nice white paste you can just smack into things and it’ll store pretty damn well. So well I don’t think I’ve ever even considered it might be off because a box like that won’t last a week.
But white isn’t the most appetising colour, pale white at least, so toss in a habanero or two and it’ll have a beautiful orange colour.
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Hugh Grant’s middle name is Mungo.
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White is also an option.
See this positive article from 2023.
