LillyPip
@LillyPip@lemmy.ca
- Comment on same as it ever was 2 days ago:
What about caring for the elderly and disabled? We see anthropological evidence of many behaviours that can only be explained by compassion and empathy, some of which would have actually detracted from security.
The notion that the early formation of societies was based on security rather than empathy is outdated. Compassion has clear evolutionary advantages, especially in primate species where offspring are born vulnerable. It’s clearly evident in other primates who live in groups (or ‘societies’), as a driving force of cooperation and cohesion.
Here’s a recent paper (2022) by Penny Spikins, PhD at the University of York, Department of Archaeology, that explores how compassion shaped early human evolution and the formation of societies: The Evolutionary Basis for Human Empathy, Compassion and Generosity.
And here’s another from 2011 by Goetz et al that explores in detail the evolutionary advantages of compassion: Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review.
Those papers are both fascinating reads, and I highly recommend them both for a deeper understanding of why and how empathy is crucial to our success as a species.
- Comment on same as it ever was 3 days ago:
Millions of years, likely. The whole reason we’re successful is because our pre-human ancestors were empathetic and cooperative enough to build societies.
We see those same traits in many other primates, and they’re not something it makes sense to evolve, lose, and evolve again. Those traits predate us.
Language almost certainly predates us, since we see it not only in other primates, but in non-primate species, too. And based on the humour we see in many animals, you can bet we were making dick jokes nearly out of the gate.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 1 week ago:
Considering evolutionary time scales, this trait may have been a response to something large and dangerous that’s extinct now.
- Comment on What am I supposed to do with all this blood now? 2 weeks ago:
Human waste products I can understand. But how many humans would you need to mulch to get enough blood for a building project? That’s one of the main fluids we usually want to stay inside our bodies.
- Comment on CODA 4 weeks ago:
It looks like @Kolanaki posted the source further down the thread: it’s the flute part from a piece in the Jungle Book.
- Comment on CODA 4 weeks ago:
I just searched for it a bit, but all the sources I could find (twitter, pinterest, BlueSky) also don’t say where it’s from, except that it’s a flute piece.
In case your wife wants to see more of these like I did, the oldest source I could find was Musical composition with threatening auras (29 photos).
- Comment on Dormice 1 month ago:
Ooooh. Welcome blast from the past. That sound…
- Comment on Dormice 1 month ago:
45 minutes at 350F seems like it will burn these tiny filets to a crisp, but I’ll try. I do love a mayo and garlic sauce.
- Comment on Science Journalism 1 month ago:
I’m pretty vocally atheist, but I watch debunking content, and part of that is anti-Flerf and anti-fascist stuff, so maybe the algorithm picked up on that.
- Comment on Dormice 1 month ago:
It’s so fracking adorable, I could eat it up. Any recipes?
- Comment on Vinegar 1 month ago:
Wait – is this how we prevent our socks committing suicide in the dryer?
Alex Jones screeching
- Comment on Vinegar 1 month ago:
The country with the highest per capita consumption of vinegar in 2018 was the Netherlands, with 3,108 liters per 1,000 people
This checks out. As we all know, the Dutch only inflict depression, they’re never depressed themselves.
- Comment on Science Journalism 1 month ago:
I do, too, and alongside that are articles about how new discoveries in cosmology are upending all of science, and alongside those, thinly veiled creationist articles about how that means science has been totally wrong all along, therefore god. The Hubble tension has spawned a lot of these, with at least one article in my feed per day from the Discovery Institute, PLOS One, and the like.
- Comment on Science Journalism 1 month ago:
I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately, and I wonder if the way these headlines are written is feeding it: creationist articles have been slipping into my science news feed, usually riffing off whatever bullshit alarmist/exaggerated headlines spread through the popsci realm the day before.
If you don’t know what you’re looking at (and most people don’t), you’ll wind up reading creationist propaganda when you think you’re reading a science article.
- Comment on Important information 1 month ago:
Slotted spoons don’t hold much soup.
- Comment on i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper 1 month ago:
I’ve got serious tech skills I could b_ using for evil.
Every day I wake up destitute, I think,
Why not. Why not create a fully automated ecommerce site dropshipping all the trash to Amazon & elsewhere? Hell, why not start a cult? I can at least source cheap FlavorAid.
- Comment on Big Penny! 2 months ago:
This bridge has been stupid low for decades, and it’s a main artery from downtown to the highway. As of the last time I drove past it, the advance warnings signs didn’t seem adequate to me.
- Comment on Big Penny! 2 months ago:
Oh shit, I posted a separate comment before I read yours – this is my bridge! Oo
- Comment on Big Penny! 2 months ago:
There’s a bridge near me with scuff marks on the underside like that. I’ve driven under and briefly wondered about the stories behind each one, and now your post makes me want to investigate further.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
Many other comments here have a share in the reasons, but a huge reason is he’s looking at more state and federal charges, and more lawsuits (which haven’t going well for him).
He NEEDS to run and WIN so he can make all these cases go away for good.
- Comment on Quick Chat 3 months ago:
Good on you. Thank you for seeing reason. That was objectively awful.
- Comment on Quick Chat 3 months ago:
Been saying this for years. I’m supposed to be fine when someone wakes me up on a Saturday morning to shove Jesus up my orifice, or sends my preschooler home from school with bible pamphlets, but if I did that to them with atheism, they’d riot.
And yet somehow they’re being persecuted. Fuck them.
- Comment on Ive bought two 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
I like 14-4317 TCX. 😎👌
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
I wasn’t trying to prove the question is about religion vs science; I was responding to the previous comment that said:
literally no one in the world means that
My links show lots of people in the world say that. Not everyone, but enough that it does come up sometimes.
There are multiple facets and perspectives in every philosophical question.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
Could be. I’m not as familiar with that format – a major strength of png is that anything can open and view it properly. It’s been a standard for decades, so it has universal compatibility.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
Yeah, the fossil record and dna analysis is such a gradient, any lines we draw are arbitrary. To be fair, those lines were always for our own convenience, in much the same way it’s useful for print designers to specify Pantone 032, but if most people look at the full colour chart they couldn’t even tell you where ‘red’ becomes ‘orange’.
It’s definitely rabbits (or turtles) all the way down.
We’re prokaryotes, and vertebrates, and mammals, and from there some people get bent. Are we apes? Genus homo? Where must we draw the line to ensure we’re not actually animals like other living things and were divinely inspired special creations?
I like simplicity. Life is a beautiful prismatic projection and it doesn’t matter that much what our Pantone swatch turns out to be.
(Sorry, /mini rant)
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
Not-quite-a-chicken laid an egg containing a definitely-chicken. Actual chicken egg was first.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
Slightly larger file size, which mattered in like 2002, but it’s only a few mb, which doesn’t matter at all now.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
It made Fox News in 2015.
A biology paper that same year..
Biologists have been talking about it.
I didn’t pull this out of my arse.
And re: that citation you asked for:
God created mature birds with the ability to reproduce. So the bird was first, ready to lay eggs.
