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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They do, in fact, make Lightning Mcqueen slides.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

There isn't any animal that is even remotely comparable in intelligence to what we see Pokemon capable of, so it's not really fair to make that comparison.

Dolphins and Chimpanzees are widely considered the next most intelligent species after us, but they're still far below us. You can teach a Chimp basic sign language, but you still can't have a proper conversation with them, let alone come up with complex plans with them.

By comparison, Meowth is not only capable of all that, he's better at it than J&J; iirc, most of their plans that almost succeeded were his ideas. Plus he's extremely capable at subterfuge, considering he once successfully convinced Ash & Co. that he was done with Team Rocket and gained their trust, only for it to be yet another scheme. Not to mention his ability to operate highly complex machinery.

And mind you, there's zero indication that Team Rocket's Meowth is any more intelligent than any other Meowth, he's just vastly more ambitious. They very clearly show that his more human like tendencies are a conscious choice, not something inherent to him. Other Meowths could learn English, they just choose not to(and at least one thinks TR Meowth is weird for doing so).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (8 children)

A "mini-burger" already has a name and it isn't "mini-burger"

I assume you mean sliders. The pic clearly does not show a slider, it shows the exact same burger as on the left but smaller. Way too much going on in that thing to be a slider, mini-burger is perfectly apt.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don't think you can answer this question for Pokemon in general, I think it would be species specific.

Meowth is clearly of human intelligence, for example. Hell, he's smarter than Jessie & James.

Then you have the extreme end, where Alakazam has an IQ of 5000. We're basically ants to them.

Not to mention pretty much every psychic pokemon in the anime can have proper conversations with humans using telepathy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Those aren't the hardcore climate skeptics. The real crazies have gaslighted themselves into believing the current climate conditions are how things have always been.

I once had a relative refuse to believe there was blizzard during a family reunion in October only a decade or so ago. They were AT said family reunion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What big money? Over 94% of these donations were less than $200. There's just a lot of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What is your point? Trump is even more gung-ho about supporting Israel than Biden was, and whoever replaces Biden will certainly take his stance on the issue. There is no pro-palestine candidate even in the conversation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

If that's what you call a "plan", never manage anything, ever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Explain how they didn't, then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yep. A third party candidate hasn't gotten a single electoral college vote since George Wallace, and the only time a third party has done better than either a Democrat or a Republican was with Theodore Roosevelt and his Bull Moose party, which crushed Taft but got absolutely obliterated in turn by Wilson due to the spoiler effect.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Even if you ignore the theory that Earths surface is the post-apocalyptic "stone-age" setting of The Flintstones, it's still reasonable to conclude that the people in The Jetsons live in the sky because they trashed the planet.

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