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Have you ever observed crows? They're very intelligent according to a lot of studies. If you observe them for some time, you'll notice how the intelligence gives them an edge. Basically, crows will try and steal from every other species around. Mostly food, but also other stuff they deem useful.

Now, with that knowledge, observe humans. The early humans also stole stuff from every other species. You could also argue that the most successful humans (in terms of wealth) also tend to steal everything, but that's beside the point, just view those as lagging in terms of evolution.

super-annoying Instragram French guy that just screams everywhere

Not narrowing it down are we?

Could be, but my (limited) experience with ChatGPT and PHP was quite different. This was in 2023, so it may have deteriorated since.

That would answer a lot of questions. But if Elon turned out to be Grok himself, it would answer even more.

I'm not even contemplating this. In my country I'm bound to follow the laws of my country, not of other countries. I don't know most of the laws in the US, and I don't desire to learn them since I don't see myself travelling there in the future. Same goes for the laws of other oppressive regimes like Iran or Russia.

Dodged a bullet? More like saw a shitty person.

Binging the "dungeon crawler Carl" books by Matt Dinniman. I just started the fourth one, "the gate of the feral gods". I still like reading them for the mindless fun factor. I don't know if I'll read them all in one go, I've also got "midnight black" by Mark Greaney on my to read list, and I've always liked the gray man books. And I still haven't read the latest two Jack Reacher novels, but those are lower on the list this moment.

Foxes would definitely be a problem, but cats don't go near the chickens over here.

Yeah, that's it.

Not a lot, make sure they have food and water, and that they are sheltered from predators at night. We have six hens and a rooster. The work consists of cleaning the coop once a week, and at the same time clean and refill the water dispenser and fill up the food reservoir. My kids do this in half an hour. We also have to pick up the eggs daily. We raised our Brahma chickens ourselves after hatching them in an incubator, and they are wonderful pets.

Edit: because we feed them a more varied diet, the eggs also taste better.

These all require someone to actually pick up the phone, instead of playing an automated message.

As a European I have to say, you are very optimistic about our train schedules.