I had a dog that enjoyed sitting in the driver seat when I was out of the car. Used to mess with pooch, saying he should remember he had his licensed revoked because he had been caught driving drunk. Good times.

Nothing to add on what you said.

I was just mentioning that as well. What could be the reception of someone with no social presence and no electronics upon arriving? I’d refuse giving details of relatives as well.

Political ties may be of some concern, although the person is not directly active.

I am not going anywhere.

But you made me wonder. What would be the reaction if someone went there and not carried a cellphone nor any other electronic equipment? And now I’m thinking about my own personal use of it. I can survive without internet for long bouts and my most important credentials are commited to memory, along with important numbers.

What could happen if someone just arrived at the gates with two book, a notebook and perhaps a couple of mechanical pencils and a pen?

Inhumane

Enough internet for me today. I’m going to have a stern conversation with my own dogs regarding gun safety.

Okay… That took me more than a couple of seconds to process and understand. The first image coming to mind was of a bulldog wielding a shotgun taking pot shots at people. But you’re referring to the random Florida Man shooting people up just because. Right?

Agreed.

I’ve tried easing the notion to my coworker but the opportunity to travel abroad, even more because the tickets have been paid for by others, is too big to miss. Their words, not mine.

Whatever small communities still existing that rely heavily on hunting for sustenance and survival practice this concept.

If an animal must be killed, then all parts will be used in some fashion.

The phone part I wasn’t aware. There’s another reason to never keep sensible info in a phone and commit all accesses to memory.

The person is travelling for leisure, visiting relatives of their current partner, that live there. I’ve been told they’ve been talking about going to watch a world cup match but the tickets are incredibly expensive and hard to get. That is the closest to the soccer connection it gets.

I am not going there. Full stop. But I work with this person on daily basis. I’m human. I get concerned.

Yes.

The common ancestor from which all great apes - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans - derived and evolved is so far away in evolutionary history that crossbreeding simply became impossible.

Logic and empiric evidence from other animals, today, suggests there was a period of time where these diverging species could still intermingle and crossbreed. At least in theory. It would be quite hard to take such events as granted and even more to prove it.

What can be asserted is that through a time scale that is incredibly hard to conceptualize for most - millions of years - from a common ancestor several new species evolved, adapting to their environment and changing in response to it, to the point the “cousins” can no longer recognize each other as such.

And most probably extremely dangerous.

Simply put, no.

The nearest you can get to the notion you are trying to explore are crossbreeds between horses and donkeys, dogs and wolves, and captivity involuntary crossbreeding of large cats.

These crossbreedings are only possible because the animals involved share a common ancestor that is still close enough in the evolutionary history to allow the mating, fertilization and subsequent successful carrying of offspring.

Dogs and wolves are so close as species their offspring is completely viable. Dogs (canis familiaris) are technically a sub species of wolves (canis lupus).

Some crossbreeds of big cats are infertile and some are genetically viable. The mating and crossbreeding is possible because all cats are in the same family (felidae), hence, still very close but already far enough between species that offspring may or may not be viable (capable of reproducing afterwards).

Donkeys and horses are already far apart enough that any offspring is completely inviable.

So, by this same logic, the more far apart two species are from their common ancestors, the more difficult it becomes to achieve successful crossbreeding or crossbreeding at all.

A cat and a dog can not crossbreed. A bear and a dog can not crossbreed. Humans and apes can not crossbreed.

No animal, no life form, can successfully reproduce with another if they are not of the same species or do not share very, very close ancestry.

I used Aurora for a while and noticed several applications were unavailble, returned download error or if installed would invoke a google account login to run.

Age restriction still applies and NewPipe can no longer circumvent it. Restricted videos get flagged as such and will not play.

The system will collapse on itself.

Either the super concentration of wealth triggers governments to enact heavy taxation on fortunes or the system simply gets reset by the large majority that will simply ignore what is considered valuable today in detriment of something else.

Regardless, how things go today is not a sustainable route

The machines are better at repeating a task with no down time but even then quality will degrade. That is why quality verification exists.

Hand made cars - or anything, by extension - are so expensive because of the human attention going into it. A specialized worker, technician, engineer, etc, makes sure their job is the best because they are specialists at what they do.