Madlaine

Well, my brain seems to be affected by it according to that test (difference score of 11) if I interpret the scale correctly

But well, I also got autism and quite a few other mental conditions and learned all my life to cope quite well with all my disabilities; that’s why I specifically outsource direction question to a visualization that make the answer more tangible for me than listening to my intuition.

But well, what works for some doesn’t necessarily work for all. And probably my other conditions have some influence on it as well. We’re all different, after all; even if sharing a few traits.

That’s why I explicitly stated local.*

I don’t care which country I’m in and how they are driving there. I obviously visualize cars I grew up with.

E: well, I see how local can be interpreted as exactly the opposite of what I mean… oops

I get that. My intuition often mixes both up, too.

That’s why I trained myself to say “driver-side” and “passenger-side” in my head when left or right come up. To a point where I don’t even have to think about thinking about it. I just visualize which side of car is meant instead of the rather abstract concept of left and right

Might not help you; but it helps me

Well, that doesn’t mean it’s not done.

My sister had a few (more than 20 simultaneously) rats.

One rat got stuck with her tail in the cage, and the tail had to be amputated, or the rat would’ve died. There were a few complications during the operation, and the bill would have skyrocketed to more than 2k€. For a tiny rat.

Needless to say, my sister insisted the operation continue. Rat lived happily for another 18 months

I always imagine a (local) car, and remember which side the driver sits on

I’d probably take a bite a day after they took a bite

Sorry, was high and missed the point

Because the US taxes it citizens. Regardless where they live

(oversimplified)

It’s debatable if they really understand it, or if they just press the buttons that make their humans happy. And dogs are really good in spotting even the tiniest clues in our body language

I doubt we are far enough to train ai for animal-human translation on more than a conceptual level, and I doubt that I would hear about it from dolphins for the first time.

I expect a widely covered story of translating dogs’ barks (or cats) first, and not in a “Hello Human, Welcome back home, I missed you. Please give me food” way (which would be probably fake) but just “Friend! Joy. Hungry”

And I don’t know how we could scientifcally differentiate a slur from a descriptive name on that conceptual level.

What I don’t doubt is that dolphins have slurs for humans.

wtf? 100$ per inhaler for long-term treatment?

My inhalers cost my insurance 100€ for 6 (120 usages per inhalter = yearly dose)