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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Natural selection at work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s interesting because it’s very obvious, biologically, that the panda has a digestive system that has a carnivore past, and yet, the very plentiful biomass in bamboo forests just waiting to be eaten rewards the animals that can make use of it. So the giant panda may or may not be “optimized” for meat, but has generations that came out of the free food that is bamboo, so that their very survival depends on a herbivore diet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Natural selection at work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember reading that the common ancestors of all birds was carnivorous. Basically every herbivore bird descended from carnivores.

  See also the giant panda and the red panda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This data analysis seems to suggest that yes, July through October have higher birth rates in the United States, with maybe 10% higher births than similar days between April and June.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's just neat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  someone who knew the male in this meme

  How can you tell that the parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis is male?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon dates a 19 y/o⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Half plus seven is just a rough rule of thumb, that tries to capture some different concepts at play.

  Personally, I never liked dating across major life milestone ages like 22, college graduation. The mid 20’s are just an important phase in developing one’s personality and sense of self, and being outside of the school environment is an important transition to learn. So when I was 30 I had a hard cutoff at 25, as I didn’t want to be with anyone who still identified with being a recent college student.

  I felt like a very different person as between 18 and 22, and between 22 and 26. But 26 wasn’t that different from 30, and 30 to 35 only saw some slight changes. It’d be hypothetical because I was already in a committed relationship after 32 or so, but when I was 35 my cutoff probably would’ve been late 20’s, and when I was 40 my cutoff would’ve probably been around 30.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Like the Kumail Nanjiani joke about a new drug called “cheese,” made by mixing Tylenol PM with heroin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Saturday night ended⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In other words, really low probability with a substantial risk that even if you do hit it, you’ll have to share the jackpot with others?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a friend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This particular fantasy (one day I’ll get to reject the women who rejected me first and they’d never be able to handle it as gracefully as I did) seems somewhat common among young men who have trouble connecting with women.

  But the false premise at the center of it is that the man is such a good friend to the woman, and the woman’s dating/romantic life hasn’t found anyone nearly as understanding or kind or empathetic. And part of that belief is some kind of assumption that life is an RPG where everyone is allotted the same number of points to distribute, and anyone who is maxed on charisma must be less intelligent or empathetic or something.

  Realistically, men who are friends with women tend to do better with dating and relationships than men who aren’t close to women. The friends of friends angle is a great pipeline for searching for partners, assuming your personality makes your friends comfortable connecting you with their friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clock logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe where you’re sitting. But my frame of reference has had slightly different time dilation than yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clock logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The decimalization of money is its own fun history, with a lot of different countries undergoing their own transitions at different times.

  The Spanish dollar, which was the world reserve currency in its heyday, was divided into 8 reals (see how pirates used to refer to money in the form of “pieces of eight”) but issues with the supply of silver led to the introduction of the lesser real de vellón, which eventually settled at 20 to the dollar after over 100 years of uncertainty and confusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinesi Protein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The animation is actually slowed down. Kinesin can take something like 100 steps per second. Each step is about 8 nm, and they’ve been observed to move 600-1000 nm per second.

  In reality it wiggles around in Brownian motion but the equilibrium of it “clicking” into place is so attractive that it keeps happening really fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t believe that “watt hours” are more convenient than joules

  Clearly you’ve never had to do the calculations where these things come up, where hours are a much more common unit of measure for time than seconds, so that multiplying and dividing by time is easier when working with hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s more when people are almost using the metric system then fuck it up, like the “Watt Hour” for measuring energy use.

  Energy is just so important to physics and engineering that it will be measured in whatever unit is most convenient to convert in that particular context: joules as the SI unit, watt hours for electricity usage, calories for certain types of heat or food energy calculations, electron volts in particle physics, equivalent tonnes of TNT for explosion energy, things like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe in a baseline level of food, shelter, healthcare, and education being provided to all regardless of means. Plus things like parks, infrastructure, physical safety and security, etc.

  But just because I believe that everyone should have enough to eat doesn’t mean that I don’t believe there is a qualitative difference between that baseline level of sustenance and all sorts of enjoyment I can get from food above that level. A person has a right to food, but that doesn’t change the fact I might be able to farm for profit. Or go up the value/luxury chain and run an ice cream parlor, or produce expensive meals, or buy and sell expensive food ingredients. I want schools to provide universal free lunch but I also know that there will always be a market for other types of food, including by for-profit producers (from farmers/ranchers to grocers to butchers to restaurateurs).

  The existence of public parks shouldn’t threaten the existence of profitable private spaces like theme parks, wedding venues, other private spaces.

  So where do real estate investors sit in all this? I’m all for developers turning a profit in creating new housing. And don’t mind if profit incentives provide liquidity so that people can freely buy and sell homes based on their own needs.

  I don’t personally invest in real estate because I think it’s a bad category of investment, but I don’t think those who do are necessarily ideologically opposed to universal affordable housing. It’s so far removed from the problems in affordable housing that you can’t solve the problems simply by eliminating the profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hello to Bary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that canceled out by the pushing you do when you start to jump?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  while he was a bit “immature” for his age (financially)

  Ok this is now my favorite euphemism I’ve seen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case, though, he’s literally wrong. “Spontaneous” has a precise scientific definition and the astronaut is using it correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fact checker⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that everyone here is conflating sex with mental health support is the reason why men’s mental health isn’t being taken seriously.

  The comments are taking the lead from the greentext that forms the basis for this post, and taking any greentext seriously is basically the original sin here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think would’ve even worked in a reference to “it is Kev’s turn to study statistical mechanics.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they are really just pedantic twits that very well could have commented the same stupid thing to a man.

  Yes, but men experience this at a slightly lower rate.

  So if an astronaut man were to get, say, 10 of these comments, while an astronaut woman gets 15 of these comments, it’s fair to infer that about 5 out of the 15 comments wouldn’t have been made to a man. Problem is that you can’t exactly tell which 5 they are. But you know it’s happening.

  Of course, if the ratio is actually closer to 50 versus 10 comments like this, then you’ve got a pretty good sense that 80% of the pedantic overexplainers-to-an-expert are doing it because the original poster is a woman.

  And one thing you find for these types of examples with a woman who has clear, unmistakable, objective indicators of expertise (literal astronaut) in the topic at hand is that the ratio is much higher for women than men, in a way that might not have been obvious for lesser credentials (like a high school science teacher). But yet, it still happens.

  It’s a name for a phenomenon that has existed for a long time. It’s a concise way to describe that phenomenon, and I still think it’s a good word to have in the vocabulary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This post literally has the watermark of the account that creates/posts these. Other people or bots are reposting them, sure, but they’re coming from some kind of aggregation account that has this particular style of recreating Twitter threads in a space that fits into the Instagram preference for square images.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is "human husbandry" called⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most organizations just call it Human Resources, or HR for short.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fact checker⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  among them only 24% talk to friends daily

  I think it’s fair to infer that a big chunk of the 76% are still talking to friends at least once a week, at least 1/7 as frequently as the 24%.

  I don’t mean to say that talking to friends at least once a week is the only way to be friends, or that it represents a majority of friendships (although maybe it might be). The part of the original comment that got me to weigh in was the idea that speaking once a week with friends was unusual or strange. That, I think, underappreciates how it can be feasible and maybe even desirable to keep in more regular contact with multiple friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fact checker⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in my 40’s, and I have children. My wife and I both work full time jobs that require regular travel and responsibilities outside of normal business hours.

  I have probably 5-10 chat threads in different apps that I maintain with different friend groups. Some are just stupid meme exchanges, but they’re also a regular way to keep in touch with people about their kids, jobs, families, hobbies, goals, etc. But I communicate with dozens of friends on any given day.

  My mom also demands regular grandchild content on a constant feed so I actually keep in touch with my family better than when I didn’t have kids.

  I have a standing neighborhood parent/kid meetup once a week where my kids get to play with their neighborhood friends while we parents hang out at some local restaurant. We text each other the day of to coordinate a place, and then maybe 3-5 of the families (out of a group of maybe 6-8 regulars and 2-4 fringe participants) will show up on any given week. This is on top of the occasional dinner party on the weekends. We don’t make it to every event, but we are averaging more than one meetup per week with our friends with kids near our kids’ ages.

  I’m also friends with people at work. I have a standing monthly happy hour with work friends I’ve kept in touch with, even as people have taken different jobs or made other career changes.

  I also do an annual camping trip in the summer with one group of friends, and an annual ski trip with another group of friends. It’s only once a year for each, but there’s also a lot of value in 48+ hour meetups, sitting around with downtime throughout, just catching up and talking around a fire or something.

  My parents had church when they were my age. I don’t. But I still try to schedule regular things on the calendar to stay plugged into different groups. It’s important to me, and it didn’t come naturally, but these are things my friends and I implemented in our 30’s when socializing started requiring coordinating calendars. Especially once the friends’ wedding weekends dropped off and seeing out of town friends required coordination without an actual occasion to celebrate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fact checker⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it normal to talk to friends more than once a week?

  Yes. It’s very normal to talk to several friends per day, and to see several friends each week. Rotating through one’s universe of friends, that might mean that there are a few friends you talk to at least a few times per week, some that you talk to a few times per month, and a some that you talk to a few times per year. And maybe you actually meet up in person a few times so that you’re still seeing friends in person every week.

  That level frequency isn’t necessary, but it’s kinda shocking to me that your comment suggests that you find it surprising that many other people are doing this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but an MBA is also a post graduate degree. A huge chunk of MBAs have undergrad degrees in something like STEM or humanities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  10000 times so they preemptively used 4 digits in their username

  Wait it hasn’t been shown that this is a decimal system, it might be up to 65,536 in hexadecimal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is true of most civil engineering majors I know. After getting their degrees, very few actually ended up working in civil engineering because the money was better in software or other tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Robert Putnam wrote an influential essay called “Bowling Alone” about the weakening social institutions in American society, and the accompanying rise in loneliness. It was published in 1995 and eventually adapted into a full length book published in 2000.

  It’s not new. But the trend lines that could be seen in the 90’s have only gotten worse, as we’ve lost or weakened many of the social institutions that used to keep us grounded in our communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, carbon=carbon double bonds in fatty acids can have the free hydrogens either on the same side or on opposite sides of the double bond, and are known respectively as cis or trans fatty acids.