Jarrod Diamond taught me that humans have only domesticated 22 species of anumal in all of human hiatory, compared to thousands of species of plants. It seems inevitable that gene splicing technology will one day be used to increase that number for animals. At which point, weāll either see people clamoring for GMO labeling for pets, or humans will have been first on that list, and no one will care.
Is there any way to reintroduce lemurs to the wild? According to the Dr., catching baby lemurs and using them for the ācuteā trade results in lots of lemurs that canāt interact with other lemurs socially, but are abandoned once they arenāt babyriffic any more. One would think a rehab center of some type for lemurs that are no longer wanted by their owners/captors is a good idea, like other wild animals.
āDid I tell you to stop scratching my back, ape?ā
Tragedorable?
Itās actually a fear response, Mark. They are torturing that poor animal because they think it looks cute.
Yeah, as we were watching this video, my sweetie and I both noticed an uncanny resemblance to our catsā behavior.
Iām pretty sure thatās not a fear response. You might be thinking of lorises, which are completely different animals.
Does anybody know whatās with the weird invisible rectangles overlaid on the video? Iāve never seen that before.
Sorry, I forgot the /s 
I was on a date like that once.
Do you mean macroblocking? Thatās an effect caused by dissimilar quantization values at the edges of the DCT in the compression pipeline.
No no there were great big buttons overlaid that took your browser to other videos. Driving up their traffic I guess.
Oh, I was on mobile. So I didnāt see them.
On my PC I see what youāre getting at. And Iāve encountered it before.
Itās Youtubeās equivalent to spam. Just outlinking with āinvisibleā annotations thatāll send you who-the-fuck-knows-where, on relatively innocuous videos.
This is why I never touch anything but the controls in Youtube.
Thank God it wasnāt Rick Astley.
Thank paranoia I just didnāt click them and end up with ransomware.
I only click links that look āgenerally cleanā
So, only Web pages ending in extensions that I understand. To domains I generally trust. Plus other rules I wonāt divulge.
Have you really not been paying attention to the presidential election?
Regular Adblock works on Youtube, but I think these gizmos are āannotations,ā which it canāt screen.
