Yes, Google's AI chatbot confidently claimed yesterday that US passports have a fingerprinting requirement, which is absolutely not true. These things can't be trusted to emit even basic facts without somehow screwing it up and it's frankly depressing how they are worming their way into almost everything. I hope this particular hype train is derailed as soon as possible.
For now (see e.g. [1]), though companies with surveillance capitalist business models are not only abusive but often sneaky and may do things like include a surreptitious prepaid mobile connection to better thwart your wishes. You really can't trust the bastards.
It took about 150 years after invention before printing really took off in terms of how it changed the way people argued (which was critical to the early founders of the US - see "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change) - https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-printing-press-as-an-agent-...
> Trying to explain that different species can't procreate like that resulted in him pointing to the fact that other people believed it in the comments as proof.
Those two species can't interbreed apparently, but considering the number of species that can [1] produce hybrid offspring, some even from different families, it is reasonable to forgive people for entertaining the possibility.
I don't think it's remotely reasonable. The list you refer to, which I don't need to click on as I'm already familiar with it, is animals within the same family, e.g. bi cats.
Raccoons are not any type of feline, and this should be basic knowledge for any adult in any western country who grew up there and went to school.
There are at least a couple of examples in the article that you refuse to read that describe hybrids from different families. Sorry, but your purported basic knowledge is wrong.
I'm not 'refusing to read' it, I said I'm familiar with it because I've read it numerous times in the past.
Which examples are you referring to? The only real example seems to be fish.
In any case I was using 'family' in a loose sense, not in the stricter scientific biological hierarchy sense.
My basic knowledge is not wrong at all, because my point was that animals that far apart could not reproduce. That's it. The wiki page you linked doesn't really justify your idea that because some hybrids exist people might think any hybrid could exist.
The point is, it's frankly idiotic or at least extremely ignorant for anyone 40 years of age who grew up in the US or any developed country to think that.
I also very much doubt the people who believe a racoon could rape a cat and produce offspring are even aware of that wiki page or any of the examples on it. Hell, I doubt they even know a mule is a hybrid. Your hypothesis doesn't hold water.
Additionally, most of the examples on that page are the result of human intervention and artificial insemination, not wild encounters. Context matters.
> Alcohol (the consumption form) serves only one purpose to get you buzzed.
Since consumable alcohol has other legitimate uses besides getting a buzz on, I don't think this point stands. For example, it's used quite often in cooking and (most of the time?) no intoxicating effects remain in the final product.
3. People who want you to respect their boundaries and are trying like hell to drag the Overton window back to an era when surveillance capitalism hadn't savaged privacy norms yet and developers didn't think they were entitled to such data.
