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I am not trying to fear monger or anything, I think that most likely hantavirus will fizzle out in a few weeks and that we should not panic. Hantavirus isn't covid, but there are similarities in the WHO's messaging. After covid, seeing how organizations like the WHO handled it, I really don't think they can be completely trusted with their public messaging.

In January 2020 they were saying things like, covid doesn't appear to spread between humans and only animal to human. Then they said it's only close contact human to human transmission, and that the risk to the public was extremely low.

During this messaging, China was already in complete chaos and there was 100k cases of covid. It was pretty obvious at that point that it wasn't spreading from only bats, and that it was highly contagious. At that point I feel most people understood we were in for a ride, even experts were warning us. But the WHO kept up their messaging that everything is fine.

To me it seems the WHO has a public playbook for how they handle these situations, and it's to minimize it as much as possible. I don't think this is a helpful playbook, when dealing with potentially deadly viruses. The opposite should be true, the most extreme measures should be taken early so that it doesn't become a worldwide thing.

Anyway that's just my two cents, again not at all saying hantavirus is going to be a global pandemic or anything, just that the WHO definetly seems to have a playbook when it comes to viruses and their communication with the public that isn't exactly trustworthy.

So I'm starting to think I might have autism, but that's not important here.

I have gotten an obsession with dinosaurs and ecology of prehistory over the past few months. I want to learn how to draw them but I'm not sure where to start.

Should I just trace stuff to learn the basic anatomy? Is there any good videos or material to learn how to draw them?

I'm broke, like extremely broke. Lost my job a couple months ago and I could probably spare 5 bucks on something.

Mother's Day is coming up tomorrow, and I was thinking of just cooking a meal for my mom or something, and hanging out for the afternoon. But I feel that is a little lame, so now I'm wondering if there is something else I should do.

What do you guys think?

Playing through this game for the first time (I just finished chapter 2, so still very early) and I keep thinking how sick the clothing is in this game.

Like every single thing in the game looks fucking sick. I need me to find some of these jackets, Arthur always looks like a damn badass.

A bit unrelated but anyone know where I can get some jackets like the ones in red dead in real life?

Every study I see it seems like we find sperm whales are more intelligent than we previously thought.

Their language is more in depth than we thought, they use vowels in communication, they have different accents and dialects, etc.

It is pretty crazy to think they potentially might have similar cognitive abilities to humans.

Hopefully project CETI works out (for those that don't know, they are trying to decode whales language using AI, and hopefully eventually communicate with them.)

I am not a marine biologist so a lot of these studies I don't fully understand, I just have an interest. If anyone has any interesting facts or opinions on sperm whales please let me know!

I've had this thought for a while, yes AI pollutes, yes we should work towards solving that. I think there is definetly conversations to be had, like for art for example, or people using it to think for them (this is a scary problem with kids nowadays, just having an AI think for them, do their homework, etc)

But pollution? Yes it's a thing, however if you eat a single cheeseburger that requires an insane amount of water, an insane amount of land usage, and causes an insane amount of pollution. One cheeseburger probably has the same pollution of like 2 years of constant AI usage.

So here is where I have a little bit of a conspiracy theory. Big polluting companies like say oil or the agricultural industry have literally done these things before to try and distract, to take eyes off them. For example the big push for recycling, carpooling all that was pushed pretty heavily and funded by oil companies. The point was to try to shift the blame to consumers, even though if every consumer lived perfect lives, did everything right we would still be in this same boat, in fact it wouldn't even really slow down at all.

So my conspiracy theory is that these types of companies are pushing this messaging about AI because any conversation about the environment that does not involve them is good.

I mean really, yes AI is a polluter, yes we should try to solve that, but it's such a miniscule amount compared to others, why is everyone discussing this and not a peep is being said about any of the other polluters out there?

I usually use a great sword but this time I've decided to play through rise with the charge blade.

I think I'm doing alright with a lot of the combos but I'm struggling to dodge attacks, especially when I am using the axe mode.

I haven't ever failed the quest but in my four hunts Ive been using like half of my potions and fainting once in two of them.

Just curious how fked I am when I get to sunbreak lol. Is magnamalo even really a challenge compared to the stuff later in the game?

edit: thanks everyone, I was feeling a bit discouraged as I had learn about guard points with the charged blade. I'm just not going to worry about that all and get the basics down on it. I really enjoy the charged blade, everything about it is fun. I gotta just get used to it.

I play a lot of the isle, got this game recently and while im definetly enjoying it I wish it was harder to get food.

I have never once even come close to starving. The servers on the Isle I play on have no AI so you have to hunt your food from other players or scavange off of bodies.

It adds this element to the game, where path of titans kinda is lacking. There isn't any reason to attack other dinos, just for fun really.

Is there any servers where food is harder to come by?

Edit: I think the most fun way for this to work better is slow hunger drain, but make it so the bigger you are the less AI dinos fill you up. it only makes sense.

if you are a baby T-rex you can survive off of AI dinos for a very long time, but if you are an adult they give you basically nothing forcing you to hunt players. it also makes it so you don't have to fight other players as a baby, but you do as an adult. Should drain slowly simply because of the map size to player count, if the player count was increased the current drain would probably be fine.

Idk if the game is still even around honestly.

I remember having a ton of fun with it in a clan, fighting over villages and defending our territory from everyone. It was a blast.

I eventually stopped playing and haven't played for years at this point, or even looked at anything related to the game.

Just curious if anyone is still playing it and if it's worth playing nowadays.