turns 50
Dammit, nature, you suck; I’m supposed to be dead. And I sacrificed so many children to you!
The Nature of Nature
Submitted 4 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 4 months ago
That’s why she chose to keep you alive.
Become one with the woods. Take the lost children. Achieve immortality.
considine@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Is that David Frum, speechwriter to the Bush Jr administration? Writer of speeches about the axis of evil? Writer of speeches to whip up frenzy for an invasion of Iraq? An invasion based on lies? That David Frum?
Jtotheb@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nature wants you to live to 50. Anything less than that is brought to you by Blackwater
I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 4 months ago
but he made an epic science quip!!!
Hegar@fedia.io 4 months ago
You could just as easily say nature wants empathy, cooperation and collective action. Also that tool use that Mr Frum seems so fond of, nature wants that too.
But of course the nature doesn't want, it just is.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Pretty sure that “dead by 50 thing” includes all the infant mortality.
I bet he’s also using the stats from peak mortality of European late middle ages with urbanisation but no good sewers.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 4 months ago
50 actually seemed about right for me excluding infants so I looked it up.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625386/
That study looks at lifespan after reaching 5, and 50 might still be a little generous with the care that humans could provide each other 50,000 years ago. 50 is about the lifespan of a king 3,000 years ago, I can’t imagine gen pop faired better.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
It’s also a sample size of 15 all “King’s of Judah” which is already urbanised.
But it’s good to see some decent data. It’s a nice irregular line from there on, and women do gain a lot more improvement than men.
I wish I had access to scholarly journals still to do my own research, but I don’t so I’ll defer to your stuff for now. Thanks.
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
I wonder how the stats were in the stone age.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
We have plenty of bones of people who lived into old age with signs of disability or having been crippled.
The overall stats not only do I not know but since we only have a relatively minor number of data points it’s hard to say.
Does tend to point to being better than a medieval city, and I think the general consensus amongst anthropologists is that the transition to agriculture saw a decrease in life expectancy.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 months ago
Shouldnt fire and cooking meat count as science and technology?
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
That too.
Even the humble napped flint.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
When I hear there’s a way to get the articles without paying money
Ctrl+ult+delete reaction pic expressing reverence
Me years later when the hospital calls saying a red-eyed raven came demanding it’s due.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Totally lost as to what you mean here
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You can use sci-hub to get almost any scientific article for free. But is it really free?
Also, context as per the comic panels used : knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss
All of this of course following the hypothesis that you must sacrifice your children to read Nature, as per the original meme.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 months ago
nature doesn’t want for anything
nature is everything
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
TIL I did not have to sacrifice my child to read Nature. You live you learn right?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yar, har, fiddle-dee-dee
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You are a pirate!
pyre@lemmy.world 4 months ago
not everyone gets to
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
As for what The Lancet wants from you, here’s a hint: Scottish Golden Age of Medicine
Nicoleism101@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I hate when people manipulate me
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think things would be a lot better if it was still that way
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Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’m a doctor. My job exists because nature hates you, and we can do better.
I have to hold my tongue when patients tell me they don’t want vaccines because they “want to do it naturally.” Fuck nature. Nature made polio, and polio paralyzes children. Nature can kiss my ass.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nature also made us too fucking stupid to realize we don’t have massive viral issues because vaccines work.
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 4 months ago
“I don’t want no vaccine! I want to get natural immunity, then I’ll be protected!”
That’s called “getting the disease,” dumbass…
xilliah@beehaw.org 4 months ago
1000012896
your wish has been granted
capital@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nature also made our kickass brains which we use to create these amazing things.
Those same idiots drive home in a car to an air conditioned home. What’s “natural” about any of that?
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Yep, tool use evolved pretty early in animals (some insects and fish can use tools,) though of course humans have gone a step further and use tools to make other, better tools.
The smallpox vaccine was developed in 1796, nearly a century before the first phone and a good 20 years before the first bicycles. The tech in COVID-19 vaccines was discovered 20 years before the first iPhone, but people act like it was invented yesterday.
kingshrubb@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nature also gives us clean air, water, climate, timber, soil, food, pollination, beautiful wilderness and wildlife. Maybe not all bad.