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These trackers on the legs remind of the 70 year old albatross https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38662454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38662454 which

• b112 2y ago
  For some reason, I immediately thought "no way that bird is 70 years old", and reasoned that the bauble on the birds leg is now a status symbol. After all, all the other birds see humans staring, pointing, admiring the bird with it! So the bird returning for 70 years, is just whichever bird that managed to kill and take the bauble for its own. I envision a bird arena, and Spock/Kirk fight music, all of it. And here we just think it's the same bird.
  • uoaei 2y ago
    That's not reason, that's post-facto rationalization. The two are often conflated, to the detriment of us all.
    • Two4 2y ago
      Hey now, don't have too much fun without the rest of us