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Re:Should a dog's sniff be enough to convict a person for mu... by DaiPlusPlus on Saturday October 30, 2021 @10:48AM (#29049196)
> predicting future from the flight of birds

Well, to be fair, we can - to the extent that when I see birds fly-off from my back-garden I know it's about to rain...

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Re:Should a dog's sniff be enough to convict a person for mu... by ashtonkem on Saturday October 30, 2021 @01:04PM (#29050343)
And to be fair, if you’re a subsistance farmer the ability to predict rain and other weather events is a huge percentage of the future you care about. Augury would be able to predict a decent bit of the important future for those people.
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