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Where Science & Buddhism Meet
Fausticle says...What a pile of bullshit. The "ideas" behind Buddhism are so vague you could draw parallels with anything. Pseudo-scientific crap.
Sarcasm at its finest. Saddleback Leather vs. counterfeiters
Fausticle says...Shouldn't he be speaking Chinese to reach his target audience?
Affectionate cat
Fausticle says...It looks like it wants the warmth from his carotid artery. I had a kitten that used to sleep on my neck for the same reason. I would wake up to a cat beard every morning.
Truths About Gandhi
Fausticle says...Ya .. I know Gandhi wasn't that great. This guy also is a long winded douche. Him and his shitty fake accent.
Pat Condell: Israel and the United Nations
Fausticle says...So... this guy hates Muslims I take it?
How attached cats are to their owners?
Fausticle says...Neuroscience research has shown that similar brain regions are involved when we think about the behavior of both humans and of nonhuman entities, suggesting that anthropomorphism may be using similar processes as those used for thinking about other people.
Anthropomorphism carries many important implications. For example, thinking of a nonhuman entity in human ways renders it worthy of moral care and consideration. In addition, anthropomorphized entities become responsible for their own actions — that is, they become deserving of punishment and reward.
This is pretty funny for a lot of reasons, the biggest being all the people involved are so obviously not cat owners nor have they even bothered to understand cat behaviour.
First of all, the snarky comments at the end of the video, actually, it's not about wanting to believe my cat needs me, I'm very well aware it doesn't need me, that has no correlation to loving me. I appreciate that's just the person writing this script but it puts an underlining tone that cat owners are delusional and sets people up to believe the experiment was a "success", even with the little bite about it not being conclusive.
Not all cats are the same, the beauty of them is precisely their individuality! Breed also plays a very large factor and so does upbringing, not to mention social behaviour of the animal in question. Let's ignore that cats are evolutionarily independent and dogs/babies are not.
Why would a cat care if its owner left momentarily? It is not built to care about such a frivolous event, it takes notes of it (which btw, no other animal was capable of and the narrator incorrectly says the cat is distracted while it distinctly watching the owner leave) and carries on, the situation pans out.
Likewise when the owner comes back, the cat again takes note of this and because it was rather brief, it resumes carrying on its business. This wasn't some "OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO WITH MY LIFE!??!?!" drastic event. Quite frankly, the cat has the most intelligent behaviour.
The reason it check outs the stranger is because it's an *unknown*, cats don't immediately trust *anything* until they've inspected it. If they had replaced that stranger with a paper bag, the reaction would have been the same. It's not that it is ignoring its owner, it's that it knows its owner is safe. It is inspecting a potential threat.
Cats are simply not basic enough to compare in this experiment and their evolutionary traits are directly opposed to these rather bias tests of affection.
Girl sings for her deaf parents
Fausticle says...I thought the title said "Girl sings to dead parents", and I thought ,"She's gonna have to sing a lot louder then that."
Small-Scale Ant Genocide Yields Small-scale Alien Artifact
Fausticle says...Fuck ants! I want to back up a truck of molten aluminum into the top of an orphanage!
It will be a silvery Pompeii of children! A work of art!
A10anis, comparing killing an anthill to the holocaust? Really? You're an idiot.
Our Drone Future
Fausticle says...Hilarious! I would LOVE to meet the person who wrote this.
"In the future we will put a HAL like A.I. in everything and take away all fail safes because it will make everything better.Or will it? DUN DUN DUN!"
I think this writer might just be the next Isaac Asimov! I for one have been jolted awake by this razor sharp view into our dark future!
Sculptor turns woman into meth addict
Fausticle says...Well... this turned me into a meth addict.
A Marijuana Arrest
Fausticle says...I had a math teacher grade 7-9 who came to school shitfaced drunk almost everyday..... never fired.
Greatest math teacher I've ever had!
But always drunk.
Grass Carts - Crazy Speed
Fausticle says...What song is this?
I never want to hear it again!
Royals - Walk off the Earth cover
Fausticle says...The clown was still better...
Gesaffelstein - Pursuit
Fausticle says...I came for the boobies and stayed for the visions of a dystopia.
Biker Gang Protects Abused Children
Fausticle says...I fucking hate bikers. I grew up around them. They create more abused children then help them.