Mechanismatic
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17·8 days agoTo be fair, I plan in advance not to make any calls because I don’t like talking on the phone anyway…
1·10 days agodeleted by creator
6·18 days agoCleaning crews need time to clean all the rooms after morning checkout. Some hotels have early check-in available if you ask, if they have rooms already available.
And it’s not just crows. A bunch of birds eat other birds—hawks, eagles, owls, falcons, et al.
UFO is better
Roughly parallel with his wings. If you look at the far right tip of the wings, you’ll see the tip of the tail feathers jutting out just past them.
Direct links on which platform? It looks like the creator posts his videos to YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.
He’s great at demanding cat treats from passersby.
75·2 months agoSounds like the Mechanical Turk which was run by chess players moving the “automaton.”
So much of the wow factor of new technologies is just marketing hyperbole.
(Why did my autocorrect suggest Hadrian’s chicken?)
The history they taught you in school was wrong. The wall was built to keep out the chicken.
“Sorry, guys, but I gotta bail.”
I’ve made the comment that I feel like a Disney princess with the crows because they’ll fly up to me a lot, sometimes past my head to get my attention or they’ll squawk from a tree as a I pass by. The other day one of them landed on my car at work when I first got there because I wanted to adjust my parking but he thought I was leaving without feeding him. They’ll hang out on branches outside my office window and hope I notice them and feed them.
A beakful of treats apparently
Salt is reportedly bad for birds because it causes excess thirst and dehydration.
This is a behavior I’ve seen a lot before. It’s when one of the crows flies up to me, knowing that I will be tossing out some treats to him. I assume it’s a territorial warning, saying basically, “this upcoming bunch of treats is mine!” It’s usually the same ones that chase off others who are coming up to get some treats too.
There are quite a few crows on the streets of Portland.
He showed up again today:
I never finished the game, but I turned it on and listened to the loading screen music frequently. I ended up playing Final Fantasy Legends III more often on the Gameboy.