A lot of people get sentience confused for sapience. Your hamster is sentient, you are sapient. Intelligence is sapience.
I smack germs down. My immune system runs like a Kenyan it don't never stop like the Energizer Bunny. I'm the world's leading antibacterial agent, I'm like soap. They can't even engineer the germ war machine that could stop me. I went back in time to end the black death. Pandemics fail around me, I'm the polio vaccine. You could call me Vitamin C, I beat down scurvy, why do you think Johnny Depp can still play a gay ass pirate? I am the cure for the common cold, the ice in my veins brings the fever back down. Hell I invented immunity. My biography is like the Fantastic Voyage; I'm shooting down virals like a firewall. I'm Dr. House without the addiction, I invented the degree in MD.
A lot of people get sentience confused for sapience. Your hamster is sentient, you are sapient. Intelligence is sapience.
Ah, Britain - you art quite the worst country in the world at dealing with weather.
The city I live in has had about 2-3 inches of snow, and yet all the morons panic, buy ludicrous amounts of food as if some bizarre nuclear holocaust is anticipated, and utterly forget how to drive.
I popped out in the car to quickly pick up some tickets at a cinema that's all of about half a mile from home. Round-trip = 1 mile. Easy, right?
Average speed = 3hpm. Yes, that's hpm, not mph. 3 fricking hours.
Jack of No Trades, Master of Less
Eh, I live in south Alabama. When we do get snow down here it's like a biblical plague. Snow? We got no defense for that, no context with which to judge it. Snow is like a Godzilla attack, some science fiction disaster we can't be expected to believe in or prepare for. This is a land where we hide from the sun like it's the popo. Ice on the road? What is that? How is that even possible? Hell, I went out west once and thought the laws of nature had been suspended because it was summer and there was no or little humidity. We sweat like buckets in the shade here as God intended, we deal with heat. Cold is like some apocalyptic thing we occasionally deal with when winter rolls around, snow on the ground is like a vision of Dante's ninth circle of hell here. Three hours to get one mile? Hell you'd need the national guard to plan out an escape route for just half an inch of the stuff here.
A lot of people get sentience confused for sapience. Your hamster is sentient, you are sapient. Intelligence is sapience.
Over here, more than a meter of snow paralyzed the streets for all of a day (though walking remained bothersome for a few more days afterward.). I always love hearing about how other places deal with snow because it's almost always hilarious.
Suffering is a fact of life. You survive if you find a reason to endure it.
Warm Bodies looks like a necrophilia movie, considering it's marketed like a love story between a zombie and a woman.
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
- C.S. Lewis
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