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Chebucto Regional Softball Club

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futurebird@sauropods.win

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A forum for discussing and organizing recreational softball and baseball games and leagues in the greater Halifax area.
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  • Why do schools have dances?
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    And, using the field trip example again, there *are* legal implications to taking students on a trip. That's why we have permission slips.

    Legal reasons are surmountable if you are doing something reasonable.

    Don't abandon your idea before you even try it because thinking about the "legal implications" is complex.

    In the case of having a student intranet I think there are basically ZERO legal implications since everything the network would do already exists in a school.

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  • Why do schools have dances?
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    * It's something you pick up if you work in a big organization. Even the most innocent seeming ideas can be shot down for "legal reasons" --I think it can be very counterproductive to internalize this notion if you aren't a lawyer. Let the lawyers raise the "legal reasons" ... we don't live in some kind of paralyzed time when nothing can be done.

    If "field trips" didn't exist I'm certian the first person to propose them would hear "can't go on a trip for legal reasons"

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  • Why do schools have dances?
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    I want to thank some of you for your comments on this post that have made me realize a few things:

    1. When talking about "social media intranets for teens" I need to make it clear I'm NOT talking about anonymous networks. Just like with school email it's one account per person.
    2. I should probably define the difference between internet and intranet as well.
    3. I'm going to hear "can't do it legal reasons*" over and over and should be ready with the big guns for THAT one.

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  • Mitch couldn't play dominoes.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    Mitch couldn't play dominoes. Mitch couldn't play memory. Mitch couldn't have on a pair of socks of the same color.

    No, they were always Mitch matched.

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    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @spacefinner

    OK... whose eggs are these? Chickens?

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  • @spacefinner
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @spacefinner

    My ants say their queen can do better than all three. And "git gud"

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  • @CptSuperlative
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @CptSuperlative

    Doing bee things for bee reasons.

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  • So a few months back I found a study that tried to do the "mirror test for consciousness" on ants.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @Bfordham @stefani @michaelgemar @alexwild @MyrmecolNews

    How smart could a creature that could *drown* possibly be?

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  • So a few months back I found a study that tried to do the "mirror test for consciousness" on ants.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @nosword

    🤣

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  • Ant Ceramic Art on Etsy:
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @sashin

    I think it's on the bottom... like a surprise. 🙂

    But I think having her there kind of explains why they are... like that.

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  • In Chicago they mix their cheesey popcorn with their sweet popcorn and brag about it a lot HOWEVER if you want to make it classy get the caramel corn but serve it with little slices of real sharp cheddar cheese.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @varx

    How would you call 'Stockholm Syndrome' but it is from Chicago and it is about popcorn?

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  • So a few months back I found a study that tried to do the "mirror test for consciousness" on ants.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @stefani @michaelgemar @alexwild @MyrmecolNews

    Bringing this one back again:

    myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)

    Are Humans Self-Aware? Ants have often tested humans for self awareness. They placed objects in our homes and were shocked we didn't cover them in sand. "Although humans build interesting nests & show signs of cooperation, can they really have rich inner lives like ants? Unlikely." They laid pheromone trails & we ignored them. "Even a newly eclosed callow or a termite could have followed these trails! Human intelligence is perhaps similar to that of a lichen... or perhaps an aphid at best."

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    Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)

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  • So a few months back I found a study that tried to do the "mirror test for consciousness" on ants.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @michaelgemar @alexwild @MyrmecolNews

    If more people would just spend sometime watching ants carefully you'd see them making decisions, being confused, getting frustrated, feeling panicked or scared, and being sleepy.

    You'd see them struggle and fight each other over who gets to do a task and then stomp off and walk in circles when they don't win.

    There is a lot going on.

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  • So a few months back I found a study that tried to do the "mirror test for consciousness" on ants.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @michaelgemar @alexwild @MyrmecolNews

    It's very contrived how we keep trying to get animals to do "tests" that are centered around things humans care about. People think it's significant to see "yourself" in a mirror.

    I suspect that "ant ideas" don't have exactly parallel concepts. That is, I don't know what the test would prove if it worked.

    Ants *do* care a lot about having the same pheromone profile as their colony.

    Ants do some things we can't. No one likes to sit with that truth.

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  • There is a really crazy paper where they did the "mirror dot" test for self recognition on ants.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @Wyatt_H_Knott

    But they respond by cleaning themselves not attacking.

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  • So a few months back I found a study that tried to do the "mirror test for consciousness" on ants.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    For the record... I don't find the idea of ants having some "self recognition" impossible or even unlikely.

    What I'm getting hung up on is the idea that ants would pay attention to a mirror. Ants have poor vision, they are tactile creatures.

    But maybe they ONLY pay attention if their reflection changes?

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  • There is a really crazy paper where they did the "mirror dot" test for self recognition on ants.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    OK this has gone on long enough!

    I'm breaking out the little ant-sized mirrors and the "bee safe paint!"

    I have black and yellow and will try this on some of my black carpenter ants.

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  • There is a really crazy paper where they did the "mirror dot" test for self recognition on ants.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    @sbourne

    Covering new things you don't understand with sand is VERY sensible. Something we could learn from the ants IMO.

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  • So a few months back I found a study that tried to do the "mirror test for consciousness" on ants.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    Here is Anton's video, he's pretty popular for science news, but he only really knows about space.

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  • So a few months back I found a study that tried to do the "mirror test for consciousness" on ants.
    myrmepropagandistF myrmepropagandist

    So a few months back I found a study that tried to do the "mirror test for consciousness" on ants. I remember not being very impressed with the journal where it was published, though I found the topic fascinating.

    Anton Petrov has now mentioned this study in one of his videos, which means it's going to spread more.

    So... how do the ant people feel about this?

    https://www.journalofscience.net/html/MjY4a2FsYWk=

    @alexwild @MyrmecolNews #ants #ant #myrmecology

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