pretend i’m hovering behind you glaring at the audience
i used this for my presentation today and… it helped a lot. thanks gaud ?
peace be upon you kid
For my final project for philosophy class I had to write and give a speech, and this made me much more confident somehow?? Like I was actually walking around the room, and using hand language and body language properl, instead of just standing there and feeling awkward like I normally would. So thanks
It’s true! And not just in Egypt, it’s recorded as a standard burglar technique in 12th century Persia. So much so that catching a fellow in the middle of the night carrying a crowbar and a drill wouldn’t necessarily prove anything, but if he also had a live tortoise with him, well it could only be a professional burglar.
“The tortoise is employed thus. The burglar has with him a
flint-stone and a candle about as big as a little finger. He lights the
candle and sticks it on the tortoise’s back. The tortoise is then
introduced through the breach into the house, and it crawls slowly
around, thereby illuminating the house and its contents.”
“You don’t have to be carrying the heaviest burden for your struggle to matter. It doesn’t matter if other people have it “worse”. It doesn’t matter if they’ve lost more or hurt for longer.
It doesn’t matter if someone with your same struggle is more debilitated or has less resources.
If something is painful for you, then it’s painful for you.
And if it affects you, it’s important and it matters.
There’s no rule that only the person with the worst possible circumstances gets to vocalize their pain. Your struggle isn’t “easier” or “more difficult”. It’s just different, because people are different. You have different strengths and limitations and access to resources. You have a different history and lived experience. Your tolerance for hardship is allowed to look different. Pain is pain. No matter what it looks like. And no matter how your experience compares to anyone else’s,
your feelings are valid and your struggle is still real.
Even if your life holds a lot of beauty. Even if your cup is full and your days are blessed. You’re allowed to be affected.
You’re allowed to hurt.
You’re allowed to feel broken and sad.
And you deserve a space to talk about it.
Always.”
apparently one whale years ago was observed doing this for hours and now more and more whales in the area are seen copying it so we think it’s a whole new behavior and it seems to be a response to shrinking food sources.
Instead of expending any energy actively hunting, the whale just holds its mouth open wherever fish are being hunted by birds. To escape the birds, the fish try to hide in the whale’s mouth because it’s a darker area that looks like shelter.
…They’re turning into giant, sea-mammal pitcher plants.
What is interesting is there is a heron (black heron) that hunts via similar methods (using shade as bait for fish). I do not think it is a learned behavior for them though. Paralel evolution is buck wild. You can reach similar outcomes through wildly different evolutionary methods and paths. Eg – in whales it is their big brains at work – with herons it is instictual – and with pitcher plants it is automatic.
Yeah little creatures love to hide so a number of predators have taken advantage of that and what’s EXTRA fucked up is that another example includes a starfish:
