The CEO of a specific fund that Blackstone operates, yes. And she was killed by someone targeting the NFL headquarters, who blamed football and CTE for some of his issues.
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I ended up garbling my comment on an edit, but I've fixed it now.
I meant to say that I admired the relationships several of my friends had with their parents, and I have always had a pretty good relationship with my own parents, so the idea of parenting has always been based on positive examples and role models in my life.
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Even touches topics like, just because you like kids, doesn't mean you have to have them, you can teach, volunteer for after school activities, etc.
Plus parenting is a lifelong role. Your kids are gonna be 50 one day, and you'll probably be alive for that.
Personally, I've never liked children (the age group), but I have always admired some of my friends' relationships with their parents, and have always wanted adult children (that is, the relationship) of my own, so I had kids. And although my kids are pretty cool, I still mostly think other people's kids are annoying, and have only softened my views on that front a little bit.
also don't think they are coprophages like rabbits.
Gorillas do selectively engage in coprophagy in certain situations, depending in large part on their nutrition and diet. Certain fruits in their diet, and the accompanying seeds in their shit, increase the likelihood that they'll go back for seconds.
The question was: how do gorillas get so muscular on a mostly plant based diet?
The correct answer is: they eat a shitload of protein that is present in the plants they eat, by consuming 20-30% of their calories from protein and eating 25-40kg of food per day.
Your answer included factually incorrect claims about how gorillas can synthesize any amino acid so that the concept of nutritionally essential amino acids don't apply to them.
That sounds low, only plausible if you're drinking very small amounts or if you're getting a really good deal on your ingredients.
Where I live, the local and regional roasters generally charge about $15 for 12 oz/340g. I like black drip/pourover coffee at a 17:1 ratio, so a 20 fl oz cup is 590g of water and 34g of coffee, or exactly 1/10 of a 12 oz bag.
So for me, each 20 oz cup of black coffee costs me $1.50 in beans.
Espresso based drinks use something like 8g of coffee per shot, and 3 shots per 20 oz cup is pretty standard, so we're still talking about 24g of coffee bean, or 7% of a 12oz bag, or over $1 per drink in coffee alone.
If each shot is about 1 fl oz, you've got 3 oz of espresso and 17 oz of other stuff, milk I assume, which also costs money. Regular milk is like $4/gallon, so we're talking about another $0.50 or so of milk alone filling up that 20 oz cup.
at no point rebuts the fact that the essential amino acids are themselves ultimately essential
I'm taking issue with your claim that no specific amino acids are essential for gorillas. That's wildly implausible, given that pretty much any animal studied has shown that animals all have essential amino acids, and that mammals generally require the same 9 amino acids as nutritionally essential. Even ruminants, whose gut microbes can synthesize many of the essential amino acids, still have issues if they don't separately consume enough of those amino acids, because the rumen microbes can't actually provide enough for their metabolic needs.
Yes, essential amino acids are essential. No, gorillas are not some kind of sole exception in animals to that general principle. They just get enough from their relatively high protein plant diets.
That's not true. Illness and injury still have an effect on reproduction. Someone who spends their life fighting chronic disease is going to have a worse time with sexual selection and reproduction. Plus a lot of characteristics are social in nature, with kin selection being a big part of human evolution, so those who are less able to contribute outside of their direct reproduction still detrimentally affect their genes' survival and propagation.
because they can synthesize everything they need.
What are you talking about. Pretty much every animal lacks the ability to synthesize certain amino acids. No animal can rearrange the carbon skeletons of 11 out of the 21 amino acids relevant to animal protein (cysteine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, tyrosine, and valine), so the ability to synthesize certain amino acids necessarily relies on the presence of the amino acids that share the same carbon structure. See here, which talks about the essential/non-essential categorization as being outdated and needing to be understood as a sliding scale in which synthesizing even non-essential amino acids carries a cost, and that eating complete proteins in a species-appropriate ratio is still necessary for animals to thrive.
Gorillas consume something like 20-30% of their calories from protein depending on the ratio of low protein fruit to high protein leaves in their diets. Their plant food sources just don't have all that much in the way of energy, so even the small amounts of protein in any given leaf is made up for the fact that they're eating up to 40 kg of food per day.
The truth is, gorillas do consume quite a bit of protein. Plant matter, like pretty much any living organism, has protein. Leaves are relatively high in protein compared to other plant foods. Let's not forget, broccoli has more protein per 100 calories than steaks do.
So no, gorillas are not capable of freely synthesizing the amino acids they need. The truth is that they're eating a lot of protein from various sources at different amino acid ratios and using those amino acids pretty efficiently.
U-235 has a half life of about 700 million years, so it's fair to assume that there's about 1.1% as much U-235 as when the earth formed 4.6 billion years ago (about 6.5 half lives).
Most uranium on earth is U-238, though, which has a longer half life of about 4.5 billion years, so that the amount of U-238 on earth today is about half of when the earth was formed. But the meme is about U-235, so that's just background information not directly relevant to the picture.
I dress for myself. And my own comfort does depend on things like social interactions and conversation dynamics and office relationships and others' perception of me and my reputation. So dressing for myself includes dressing within social conventions.
Plain bread doesn't have sufficient water activity to support bacterial growth.
Focaccia is generally bread with oils/fats (oils aren't water so they don't contribute to water activity).
Sweetened pastries have more water in them, but have most of the water bound to sugar molecules so that there's not enough water activity to support bacterial growth.
But pizza has a water-based sauce on the crust, and often has moist toppings. That's why some pizzas become soggy over time. That's enough water activity to support microbial growth, including some microbes that cause illness. So pizza should be refrigerated.
You're just listing reasons why they were reliant on a single crop for sustenance. Cool, but the actual historical example shows why that particular arrangement is brittle and vulnerable to shocks, which is the point being made here.
The Irish genocide that you refer to as using the colonizer’s term “Irish Potato Famine” had absolutely fuckall to do with potatoes or the Irish.
But it has everything to do with potatoes (a particular blight that affected potato crops) and the Irish (the actual affected people of this genocide).
The social and political reasons for why the Irish ended up so dependent on a single crop for sustenance is part of the story, of course, but this discussion right here is about the fragility and brittleness of relying on a single crop.
For another example of a plant that just didn't make it into modern society at scale, there are skirrets. Carrots, parsnips, and skirrets were related umbellifer plants with edible, nutritious roots, cultivated over the centuries as food. Carrots and parsnips were responsive to breeding for root size, and could produce comparatively huge roots, but skirrets never really did. Once the potato was brought over from the new world, the skirret fell out of favor.
2-3 times per week in a normal week. Usually a scheduled dinner with neighborhood friends (and all our kids) midweek, and usually one or two social events on the weekend with whoever is scheduled. Plus I consider my work friends to be real friends, so I tend to see them almost every day.
The bones are their money.
He suffered from mental health and physical issues, blamed it on CTE, left a note requesting that his brain be examined for CTE, and was diagnosed with CTE after his death. All that is consistent with targeting the NFL headquarters in that building.