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One of my favorite episodes, honestly.
It was important, but ultimately so depressing that it turned me off to the series.
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Rat teaches me to feed her when she tattles her tray. But I won't do it until everything's been eaten, also the boring bits. Then suddenly for weeks no trouble whatsoever - when she rattles her tray, it's empty, everything gone. Until one night, hidden behind a doorpost, I watch her methodically clean out the boring bits and bury them under floor pellets. As soon as the tray is empty - rattle rattle rattle. This was…
How do you know it's deceit? It seems like you could get similar behavior if you filled two trays, one with food and the other with trash, and never provided food unless the trash tray was empty. You're training the rat to empty the tray.
This reminds me of the saying "You're never more than 6 feet from a rat" https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20716625
They should check in the town hall. :-)
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Neat article, for those looking to save a click: "Urban areas in the UK cover around 16,000 square kilometres. If we distribute the rats evenly across the urban areas, which is clearly unlikely but necessary for the calculation, each rat has a rather spacious 5,000 square metres to roam around in. Assuming you're standing at a given spot in an urban area you would be at most 164ft (50m) away."
"Assuming you're standing at a given spot in an urban area you would be at most 164ft (50m) away." Not sure how they maintain a population if they remain 100m away from each other
This is interesting, but is it really Hacker News-y? Regardless, thanks for sharing :)
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AI gun turrets in the sewers.
Off topic, but you really think there arnt automatic turrets, seems very feasible today, especially in a situation like a sewer where you really dont have to worry about shooting the wrong (moving) thing.
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Rat teaches me to feed her when she tattles her tray. But I won't do it until everything's been eaten, also the boring bits. Then suddenly for weeks no trouble whatsoever - when she rattles her tray, it's empty, everything gone. Until one night, hidden behind a doorpost, I watch her methodically clean out the boring bits and bury them under floor pellets. As soon as the tray is empty - rattle rattle rattle. This was…
How do you know it's deceit? It seems like you could get similar behavior if you filled two trays, one with food and the other with trash, and never provided food unless the trash tray was empty. You're training the rat to empty the tray.