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His denialism is bordeline religious, so perhaps I could make the case for including this in the funny side thread?
Eitherway this is a pure gem.
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Taken from the photos that shook the world thread...Photographer, Monica Szczupider.
On September 23, 2008, Dorothy, a female chimpanzee in her late 40s, died of congestive heart failure. A maternal and beloved figure, Dorothy had spent eight years at Cameroon’s Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center, which houses and rehabilitates chimps victimized by habitat loss and the illegal African bushmeat trade.
After a hunter killed her mother, Dorothy was sold as a “mascot” to an amusement park in Cameroon. For the next 25 years she was tethered to the ground by a chain around her neck, taunted, teased, and taught to drink beer and smoke cigarettes for sport.
In May 2000 Dorothy—obese from poor diet and lack of exercise—was rescued and relocated along with ten other primates. As her health improved, her deep kindness surfaced. She mothered an orphaned chimp named Bouboule and became a close friend to many others, including Jacky, the group’s alpha male, and Nama, another amusement-park refugee.
Szczupider, who had been a volunteer at the center, told me: “Her presence, and loss, was palpable, and resonated throughout the group. The management at Sanaga-Yong opted to let Dorothy's chimpanzee family witness her burial, so that perhaps they would understand, in their own capacity, that Dorothy would not return. Some chimps displayed aggression while others barked in frustration. But perhaps the most stunning reaction was a recurring, almost tangible silence. If one knows chimpanzees, then one knows that [they] are not [usually] silent creatures."0 -
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His denialism is bordeline religious, so perhaps I could make the case for including this in the funny side thread?
Eitherway this is a pure gem.
Have you heard this?
Up to rap news 9 are fantasmagorically unbelievable.0 -
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Intelligent Design of "Cars".:DThe program learns to build a car using an Intelligently Designed genetic algorithm. It starts with a population of 20 Intelligently randomly generated shapes with wheels and runs each one to see how far it goes. The cars that go the furthest reproduce to produce Intelligently Designed offspring for the next generation. The offspring combine the traits of the parents to hopefully produce better Intelligently Designed cars. Now with the button at the bottom left u can choose to input cars and different terrains. This lets people post their results and even design a car by hand.
Awesomeness.0 -
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