In the late 90s I was crushed to find my lastname.com/.net/.org had all been registered by a family-run business that's been operating in my grandparents' home country for 200 years. Looks like they're still around, too.
I don't know enough about the stuff to form a strong argument but I feel if they live on our plane of existence, they experience time. And if they're intelligent enough to communicate with us, they could perceive the passing of it. Counting events of some kind would just come naturally
I feel like any civilization advanced enough is going to have no problem with that.
A body of water is connected but you can count the waves. They'd surely count repetition, too, such as their planet rotating and and orbiting it's starting. Or sound - "click" one "click click" two.
And if they're as intelligent as humans, both species are able to learn new abstract concepts
1 in 5 boys either knows someone their age who delusionally thinks they're in a relationship with a chatbot, knows someone who claims they're dating a chatbot as a joke, or is just fucking around
There's a non-insignificant chance the boys they surveyed weren't taking it seriously. "Oh yeah, I totally know someone dating a chatbot"
Why?? This is my answer as well. There's just not enough time in the day to do all the things I want to do. There are so many things I haven't even bothered trying because I know I don't have the time to learn it well enough for it to be worthwhile.
I know my car repairs are DIYable but I don't have the prerequisite knowledge so it will take me too long to be cost effective. If I didn't have to sleep, I've got an extra 8 hours a day to learn.
Obviously it'd be dangerous regardless but it got me thinking....does a chimp have the fine motor control to operate a firearm?