Swaus01
@Swaus01@piefed.social
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 5 days ago:
This is the answer
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 5 days ago:
At some point, something lead to a mutation that turned curly hair into straight hair, and that seems to have been selected for in populations living in colder climates
It feels cool to have curly hair despite being from a long line of cold climaters.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Would you mind sharing that? Would be very helpful
- Comment on 1 week ago:
“Well, ya’ll were the only one of the 500 I sent out to reply, what do you do?”
The temptation to do this though 😅
- Comment on 1 week ago:
True, and I will. What does inside track on internships mean? Like they’re specifically holding a slot for someone at your uni to join?
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- Comment on Should I donate sperm? 1 week ago:
It may be! I would love to understand why if it is. I do value religious perspectives
- Comment on Should I donate sperm? 1 week ago:
So patriotic right now
- Comment on Should I donate sperm? 1 week ago:
1) The thing is my country has free healthcare, so if enough people are willing to donate, sperm is theoretically free.
2) That’s given me some stuff to think about though - I’m going to search and see if there are case studies of people being pestered for child care (it says you’re under no obligation but a particularly devious person might lie to the court/police, right?)
And then there’s also the fact that it could be people you don’t want to create a baby with. Idk. TBH i don’t think people who try to exploit infrastructure like that are going to be bothering with sperm donation, i think those unpleasant people will be making babies traditionally, and if they’re infertile that just means more zero consequence sex to them.
Some good news is also that the NHS provides a professional to explain what the implication of the decision are so maybe this will come up or i can ask about it. It would certainly explain why donation rates are so low - I’m not sure what’s so much worse to everyone about masturbating in a clinic to masturbating at home and “wasting” the genetic material. (other than the fact that they don’t want to create random kids they won’t meet)
it’s a bigger decision than I’ve given thought to so far, i’ll give you that.
- Comment on Should I donate sperm? 1 week ago:
Thank you! I’m also struggling to understand why not so many people do it. I guess they don’t trust that kids won’t be able to contact them?
The NHS should promote it more, if there’s really a shortage. I don’t want my country dependent on buying sperm from america lol.
- Comment on Should I donate sperm? 1 week ago:
I believe you have to write out a few paragraphs about yourself so that sperm-receivers feel they have some choice in the matter. But that’s a good point, i do feel a bit eased to hear that. Regarding race, i think they tell this to donors as well because 1. a lot of people like to have children from a similar genetic background to their infertile partner + themselves, and 2. Certain diseases are more prone from mixed races, right? That’s what i’ve heard from stem cell donation
- Comment on Should I donate sperm? 1 week ago:
Uhhh yeah i was saying i saw that in the news and it made me realise that there really is a shortage. ?
- Comment on Should I donate sperm? 1 week ago:
Definitely going to do it through an official way.
From what i remember, there is no expectation for child support and they can only contact you 18, maybe 16, years later. There’s a limit on how many children can be produced with the sperm. (3 i think?) Before they ask you to donate again - if you say no, no more is produced. If you say yes, 3 more kids can be produced from your next batch)
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- Comment on How far back into the human/mammal family tree does one think we would have to go to find a genetic relative that doesn't give a whit about how good their hair looks ? 1 week ago:
I am that relative, so for me it’s 0 steps.
A couple of my relatives have very curly hair and don’t have to worry as much about how it looks, so i think we’re predisposed to that.
If you come from a culture that does certain hair shaping techniques, then you’re gonna have a bunch of ancestors who didn’t have to worry how their hair looked. Also i guess there are families where all the men shave their head. Seems like a common thing for eastern europeans nowadays.
- Comment on Shock study reveals popular UK sandwich contains more salt than five cheeseburgers 5 weeks ago:
That’s why i eat burgers for lunch instead of meal deals 😋
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
Society ;(
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I guess Reform is just really popular :c
Yep… and it really shouldn’t continue to be, because it actually has no plan or cohesive ideology, and is probably designed to fail, just like every other political project of Farage’s.
Reform is an entirely reactive party - since kicking Rupert Lowe out, farage has just repeatedly lifted policy from Lowe and his Restore party.
It would make more sense for the british right to put their support behind “Restore” or Labour to achieve their aims, in my opinion. Not sure what will happen but the latter of those seems unlikely, so i guess the Election map is going to look like a salad assortment next GE; a very very very split vote.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
Honestly not that deep
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
That’s so surprising to me. German efficiency at play
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
This isn’t an argument byt a ponderance, and people can engage in one unhealthy thing but not another, without compromising their morals/belief system.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
Interesting, i always thought sweet food “ruins appetite” just by raising your digestive system’s expectations
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
Rare fact drop. I like this answer. Makes me want to eat more desserr from now on 😈
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
That’s a good answer - eating it for the dopamone rather than the sugar or fat
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
Thank you so much for the detailed answer which considers the entire scope of human history. Much insight into different cultures.
In the 80s it was rare to see people drinking water, except for “health food nuts”. It was far more common to see soft drinks/sodas. Over the years, society has become more accepting of drinking water.
This is very interesting to think about
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
If food were just about cold, hard, logical choices based on nutrition alone, we’d all just eat Soylent Red and Yellow.
False.
Yes your principle is right though. I just wonder how the society evolved to like eating sugar as the last meal of the day
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
Then perish.
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- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 months ago:
It’s a long shot/hail mary but you could hope that the CIA will boot him out.
- Comment on Call off King's US state visit over Iran war, urge Lib Dems 3 months ago:
Think that would be a good idea. Also since his brother was arrested and we should be shunning the US government for not prosecuting any of their own over Epstein files.
Would honestly be mpre appropriate, though very dangerous, to do a state visit to iran or nother middke east country and pledge some aid.
