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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do animals think we're cute?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I read something about some resarchers looking at what goes on in the brains of elephants when interracring with humans. They concluded that it was similar to the reaction when humans encounter cute things. Was a really long time since i read that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy a microscope and look at some bacteria. They evolve fast, in real time, by the same principles other living organisma do.

  Science is the process of observing, puting forth hypothesis based on observation and then doing your best to disprove that. It is the best method humankind has figured out for getting to truths about what we see around us. If you want absolute proofs, look no further than maths. In the real world, we do the best we can with science. Religion does not fulfill the same role as science do. Religion is not even close to the same concept as science. Religion is more akin to fictional works, like Tolkiens, lord of the rings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans, How do you pour soda into a cup with ice without the soda going flat?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cold soda in a glass, add ice while trying to agitate the liquid as little as possible. Cold liquids have greater capacity for dissolving gasses. It is less prone to release boubles. Use an ice machine for your ice. Smooth ice has fewer nucleation points for the co2 boubles to form. Cold, slow and smooth. Expect to loose some carbonation. In the cases i have very rugged ice from the freezer, i sprinkle some soda or water on them to melt the outer layer before adding my drink slowly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iq means very little other than being am idicator of how good you are at iq tests.

  Probably doen’t apply to everyone, but i feel like intelligent people experience a lot of stress asociated with performing to surrounding expectations. They tend to be less stressed when hanging around people they don’t need to perform for.

  In your case, ask him about it. He might feel perfectly content around you. You might even be a calming presence.

  I’d say me and my partner are equals. But I imagine I would have no Issue If they were less intellectually inclined. Or more for that matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what point in the relationship should I move in with my girlfriend?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s stopping you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if ancient mythologies were privatized in the future?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I heard Marvel stopping the sale of some Thor t-shirts, or something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m probably no longer center-left. If you could decide from my thinking, what political affiliation should I research to see if it fits me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Allot of sexuality here. Almost nothing about politics.

  You lack the ability to imagine future issues for yourself. Work on this. Cause when those rights are gone, they are not comming back. Pay attention, avoid future pain.

  If you can’t feel empathy you might be a psychopath or narcisist. As far as I understand, that is a hard thing to live with. Tough luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you eat soap for acid reflux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is varies from mildly unpleasant to a very unpleasant feeling in your throat. Sometimes it spreads to the chest, though i have never experienced that. Some day you too will feel this feeling. Try eating poorly and much for many days in a row.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve (Steam) begin a direct collaboration with Arch Linux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If some immortality serum gets discovered, I hope it’s Gabe that gets to use it and I hope he keeps it secret from other rich people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or how about this:

  The body is a super complex chemical eco-system. Messing with it is understandably super difficult, if you do not want to cause damage. All drugs have side effects. Known or otherwise. Using drugs for any reason is like throwing a funnily shaped wrench in to a factory you do not fully understand. It always causes problems. In medical science we try to figure out what type of wrench causes the least destruction while providing some benefit. We then weigh the benefits against the downsides. Leave these decisions to someone that has dedicated their life to this science. Let them make educated guesses for you. Instead of you just guessing. Generally, don’t use any drug unless you have to. Stop as soon as is recommended by you doctor. Assume that any drug you use, will have a permanent, accumulative detrimental effect on the body. Just to be safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are used to there being teams in everything. If you are not like me, you are with the enemy team.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon envies the AVGN's power⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  james rolf, cinemassacre, angry video game nerd, avgn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do passports need to be signed to be valid?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Legacy from a time when it was used as authentication. I guess. I sure find myself not reproducing my past signatures very well. Never got me in to trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wise Wooly Pachyderm⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yag-kosha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How comes despite modern medecine, (western) society is less violent ?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wager the reason why people are not dueling each other, to solve their differences today, is that they simply have more options in how they go about it. I don’t think the survival rate of stab wounds factor in to the decision at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not arguing that this happens everywhere, in the same way and is then set in stone forever. People in different places and times had different circumstances. Hence, they could have chosen to handled things differently. Cultural norms can also sometimes change over night. Look at the sexual revolution of the 60-70s for example.

  I was trying to answer the question where this norm comes from. Not why this norm isn’t universal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is growing and they are coming⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I checked it out! I have avatars disabled. Didn’t even know they were a thing. I can confidently say; yours is the best avatar on Lemmy that I have ever seen! audience clapping

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I think that is where we are heading. In societies with high quality of life and high standard of eduction, it is already an expectation. Unfortunately there are places today, that are still somewhat mediaeval.

  To clarify; the reason why males might have initially made these requests of their partners is, I reason, insecurity and perhaps fear. Imagine you live in a society where you can not expect protection from anyone except maybe your own family. You find yourself in that threatening situation. Your choices of what to do about it are limited. From the perspective of both the victim and her husband. If most peoples choice are the same, it might become a norm and part of the culture, eventually. You can imagine how the resulting behaviour would probably have been supported by both sexes. Because they feel safer. Because it’s practical and easy. With time it becomes pointless. But it’s culture.

  If I were to find myself in that situation, today, I might have told my wife “let’s leave”. My choices in that moment are still limited. Of course I can report the incident to authorities and what not, after the fact. That sucks for me. It probably sucked even harder 12k years ago.

  I have never found myself in this situation, but I can imagine it. And I think my wife would cover up, not because she wants to, but because it makes her feel safe. That is not great. That is not an argument for bad behaviour. Thankfully we generally feel safe where we live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Evolution doesn’t have a preconceived goal it goes for. There can be pressures of all different kinds. I did not intend to convey that sexual pressure was the sole factor on the evolution of breasts. Clearly they have other functions. I only make the observation that it is a sexual signal for males in the vast majority of mammals. I believe humans are the only mammal with breasts that doesn’t shrink when they are ready, as it were. But I am a proponent of the hypothesis that it was evolved as a trait of sexual secrecy, to confuse males, so the female can attract the favour of more males.

  It’s alright to disagree with the premise that there was no sexual pressure on the evolution of breasts. You would probably be in the minority in the scientific community on that one though.

  For the record; I fancy myself an egalitarianist. I believe in women’s rights. I do not believe slavery is good for any kind of society. I really believe males and females are very similar. Small differences in our physical makeup. That is all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry it came of that way. It was not my intention. The gold bar part is perhaps a bit unfortunate. I was trying to illustrate and emphasise to the reader that doing anything carries a risk and that people of different regions and cultures have made different choices to manage those perceived risks based on their circumstances.

  I believe people, more often than not, make choices out of practicality. Morals, religion, politics, fads, all come and go. “Hey, wife, those guys are staring, I know it’s not convenient, but can you cover up” has probably been said by males partners pretty consistently over the years.

  The word steal might have been a bad choice too, now that I think about it. Perhaps kidnap would have also worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since we are all going; here is my take. Breasts were always sexual in nature. For most species they signal fertility and what part of the cycle the individual is in at the moment. At some point human females evolved to have perpetually inflated breasts. There are a few different theories as to why that happened, but is is beside the point for this discussion. So considering they were evolved to attract or dissuade males, I say they certainly have a sexual function. In addition to this, breasts play a big part in sexual pleasure for the wearer.

  Now consider people pairing up in monogamous couples. The male suspects that other males might be motivated to pursue his mate by the visage of his mates nice boobies. He asks his mate to cover them up so he feels more safe in his position. Now hundreds of years pass, and what do you know, it is in grained in the cultures. It’s not really too bad for the women, so they have lived with it, for the sake of peace. Sometimes it is convenient to be covered. For example in cold weather.

  Tribes have not only hidden their populations breasts, they have been known to hide their women all together, so the neighbouring tribes don’t steal them. I feel that this is a bit similar. Put a gold bar in a glass display long enough, and someone will try to take it. Everything carries risk. If your society isn’t good at maintaining law, then it’s a bad idea to display the gold bar. In some places it might not be an issue at all. All women could go around topless as well, but the risk that they are approached by an aspiring male will probably be slightly increased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animals⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Much like when humans turn their head to better vague where the sound is coming from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely there is no way to install steam on linux and download stuff off that installation without revealing that you are doing it on a linux machine. I mean you are either requesting a linux build of the game from their server or you are downloading some wine/proton components or configurations. Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does mucous have calories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I once tried spitting all day when I was a kid. There is this sudden pain when your throat dries up enough and sticks closed. It is not pleasant and you will instinctively retain every little drop of spit after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bob was the first. It was only bob and the universe sized computer. Bob decided that he would simulate a universe with his universe sized computer. Then big bang happened. Now bob is everywhere. Through observation we can infer that he was made out of atoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would take the average Canadian 39 years to save the required down payment to purchase a home in the greater Toronto Area⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to inherit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to burn belly fat if I have cervical spondylosis and scoliosis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the best type of exercise is the one that you think you will keep doing forever. Basically it has to be fun and motivating for you to actually do it more than once in awhile. Find that activity. Doesn’t matter what it is as long as it gets you tired and sore. Otherwise, eat less, which is also hard to do consistently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  this will also make for better and more enjoyable games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine to produce not only a million FPV drones but also thousands of long-range attack drones in 2024 – Strategic Industries Minister⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always imagined those shaped charges had a little weight to them. Judging by that image, that can’t be a very heavy thing, if the little drone is to carry it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's like everyday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But it is!