Must have a speech unit installed inside the throat or something also since we're not seeing lips or a tongue. That whole forming phonemes with parts of the mouth thing is so 20th century.

Get a fake cover for it with the title How to Pretend to Read in Public.

They are territorial, so you can sometimes recognize them based on location and number when there's nothing else distinguishable about them. There used to be two of them that would claim my front yard as their territory and they'd claim first access to any food that was put out and drive off competitors. They increased in number though and I could tell they had some kids because they did the whole squawking fledgling act where they scream to be fed constantly. So now there are more members of the family that dominate the area.

Different sets will follow me around in different parts of the neighborhood, again reflecting the territorial aspect. There's one couple a few blocks from my house that is highly distinguishable because one of the birds has a wonky wing. My neighbor named that was Twitch and its mate is Shogun.

Here's a post featuring them and one of their fledglings: https://lemmy.ml/post/17566746

There's a crow at my work who hides his treats in a particular patch of grass and so I call him Stash. I've seen him drive off other crows who get near his stashes.

I carry cat treats with me since you can carry so many in a small pouch in a pocket. They supposedly like unsalted peanuts in the shell too, but you can't carry as many on a walk. They still follow me when I run out of treats, so I make sure I carry a lot. They've also come up on my porch and eaten wet meaty cat food.

I work at a college campus. Several crows will follow me when I'm walking around since they know I'm a source of snacks. This one was following me from building to building while I was putting up flyers.

Still pretty common today.

US patents expire after 20 years.

I'm guessing it would be more like, *Hey, Bob, watch this!"

Yeah, that is a pattern I've seen. I grew up having to troubleshoot stuff offline just to get a modem on PC to work on dialup to get to a BBS or CompuServe or editing mods for computer games, whereas my Mac friends were mostly playing with artistic programs on Mac. I also used artistic software on PC but that too required more skill. I don't recall seeing them deal with a command line interface whereas most of my earliest games ran in DOS.

Weird. I was thinking the post was saying Mac kids were less digitally literate because of the whole "it just works" culture. When I ran a help desk, the Mac users were definitely less adept. The pattern seems to continue with iPhone and Android users I encounter today.

I was looking through some old vinyl in a store yesterday and found an album from the 50s or 60s called Songs Everybody Knows and I didn't recognize a single song on the list.