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  • Colin Farrell in Phone Booth perfectly captured that early 2000's feeling of where we were, technologically.

    1998's You've Got Mail does, too.

  • The anus may have evolved from a hole originally used to release sperm

    But whose sperm are we talking about here?

  • The native species may even do better with this loss

    Not if the native species are also susceptible to the same cause of death. If that's the case, the European honeybee deaths could be an indicator, correlated with the uncounted deaths of the native species.

  • From this summary, The American Health Association still has a very modest recommendation to avoid excessive dietary cholesterol but no longer recommends a daily limit, and notes that foods high in cholesterol tend to be high in saturated fat, which does still show a link to serum cholesterol.

    In other words, foods that are high in cholesterol but low in saturated fat (like shellfish, and to some degree eggs) are still fine.

    I'd trust the American Heart Association over a video by a doctor who advocates for veganism through his books and media appearances. He seems to me to be more of an advocate (and isn't very open about the fact that nutritionfacts.org is his own marketing website for promoting his specific products). And his books rely partially on data now known to be faulty, about "blue zones" where lots of people live past 100 (turns out each are hotspots for pension fraud so it's hard to actually know how old people actually live in those places).

  • The worst she can say is "no"

    But the thing is she's not gonna say "no", she would never say "no" because of the implication.

  • (I must say I disagree completely with that guy sharing messages from his girlfriend- that piece is very weird and a total breach of trust)

    My impression from the original post was that kind of stuff was what drove most of the fallout. Leaked off color memes aren't going to ruin people's relationships, but leaked shit talk or breaches of someone else's privacy will.

  • I can change her

  • Can you please not use that term "Lazy Susan"? It's got racist and sexist connotations, and I'd really prefer you just not call it that.

    Who's that racist towards? Susans? That's crazy. Where'd you get that?

    Okay. I would just like you to not use the term.

    You're right. You know what? It should be...

    We should definitely start using the Ambitious Susan.

    Yes, yes. Please spin the Indefatigable Susan.

    Oh, can we have the Multifaceted Susan my way, please?

    Yeah, spin the Industrious Susan.

    Ooh, can you spin Ambidextrous Susan, please.

  • You're thinking of bacillus cereus, which grows on cooked rice or pasta stored at room temperature.

  • Coral can recover after bleaching, so the threshold for bleaching is different from the threshold for dying.

  • i can say people are fucking animals when it goes to camping

    It took me reading the rest of your comment, and a lot of thought, before I realized you were using the word "fucking" as some kind of intensifier instead of as the word for "having sex with."

  • I mean it comes up basically every day here where people complain about censorship in a screenshot submitted to some shitpost or meme community.

  • While we humans eat a lot, something like 50% of our calories are going to our brains.

    I don't think that's right.

    This article says that about 20% of an adult human male's resting energy expenditure goes towards supporting the brain's metabolism. Obviously for more active people, the higher denominator of total energy expenditure will mean an even lower percentage of energy being used for the human brain.

    Flying is energetically expensive to start doing, but pays off in efficiency once an animal moves a far enough distance. How many calories does a goose need to consume to fly 4000 km, and how does that compare to terrestrial species like deer or wolves?

  • Birds have to use almost all of their available calories on flying.

    But flying is quite energy efficient as a method of getting from point A to point B. That's why flying insects and birds have had such evolutionary success with that strategy.

  • Evolution didn't make your teeth to grow like this.

    Modern diets are just selection pressure. Evolution marches on.

  • where saddam

  • Nobel Laureates Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton at Princeton University published a study in 2010 showing that money buys happiness only up to about $75k per year (in 2010 dollars, for Americans), at which point happiness plateaus and more money doesn't meaningfully buy more happiness.

    Years later, Matthew Killingsworth at the University of Pennsylvania published a study showing that happiness didn't really plateau with money, but kept increasing at $75k and beyond.

    They got together to see if they could reconcile their different findings from pretty similar methodologies.

    As it turns out, Killingsworth's data did show the same plateau, at pretty much the same place, if you focus only on the least happy 20%. In a sense, the Kahneman data was focused on only measuring unhappiness, and didn't properly distinguish between people who were kinda happy, people who were moderately happy, and people who were really happy.

    So now the most widely accepted analysis is that there are people who are deeply unhappy, for whom giving them more money might not make them emotionally better off, at least past $75k in 2010 dollars. But for the rest of us, the majority of people will continue getting happier with more money, well up to the $500k income.

    Here's a write up of the collaboration