The bun top is also typically less dense.

Butt inspector

I like having a face for expressions

When you’re studying for a class you need to study hours to hit those deadlines. In adult life you can do 5 minutes a week if you want.

It’s a pbj with banana in it

What if I told you that knowing I’m going to die in poverty isn’t helping me escape poverty?

Why have regular chocolate when you can have hard chocolate with no flavor?

I would leave her

I’ve always suspected there’s a big banana

Why do you always turn and look, if the method eliminates blind spots? Worried about vampire cars?

“debunked”

If it’s an adult doing the selling, then it’s a consensual interaction.

Exploitation in the negative sense requires a violation of consent.

Is it a problem if I pay in million-dollar bills?

“Simply present the relevant evidence. Surely they’ll change then”

It has vastly improved it since I, who don’t fit into social structures well, am able to take advantage of the particularly diverse niches of the free market to carve out a living for myself.

Man I thought both women and men were getting this the whole time. I was way off.

Statistically speaking, however,

This way of looking at things is called collectivism. It's the sort of philosophy that considers it okay to treat and individual according to the average experience of their group. For example, when someone points out that a woman can easily get help and a man is told to stop and consider his abuser's needs, collectivism says "yeah but that man's problem is smaller".

Well, that's the implication. That his problem is smaller than a woman's problem would be.

It's never actually said. Instead it's described in terms of statistics and numbers. And these numbers describe the collective experience, not the individual experience.

OP is making a complaint from an individualist point of view: if a particular man is being abused, then that man faces significant obstacles in getting help.

Just because fewer men than women experience problem X, doesn't mean that a man with problem X suffers less than a woman with problem X.

Dismissing the experience of the individual, or implying that it's "bullshit" to highlight that individual experience (which is horrifying, as I know from being on one side of this issue, which is all the perspective I need to evaluate how horrible it feels and whether it's okay).

People think the words collectivism and individualism map to:

Collectivism: considering others' needs

or

Individualism: considering only one's own needs

That's not what those words mean. What they mean is:

Collectivism: Considering the needs of a group, and making ethical decisions based on group situation descriptors (such as statistics) and the implied sums of experience. Holding groups responsible, as a unit, for crimes. Recognizing groups, as a unit, for their accomplishments.

Individualism: Considering the needs of the individual, and making ethical decisions based on the individual's situation (such as stories, relationships, health status, etc). Punishing or rewarding individuals for the actions they themselves committed.

But it's not even a matter of policy primarily. It's not like this policy is collectivist and that policy is individualist. Most prominently, these are lenses through which to view the world.

One of the dangers of collectivism is exactly this kind of reasoning (when collectivism is applied erroneously to individual policy or problem evaluation). Because more women experience X problem than men, we should prioritize the individual women's problems over the individual man's problems.

I am not accusing you of having said or implied the previous sentence

Now, collectivism isn't bad or good. Individualism isn't bad or good. The danger arises when one doesn't distinguish between them. In the above italicized thought, for instance, a collective issue is used to make decisions about individual response. That's not so good.

An example of good collectivist reasoning and ethics would be like: "After experimenting with different carbon tax rates, we have found that $65 per ton extracted results in the climate stabilizing".

Collective problem, collective analysis (those atmospheric CO2 readings basically involve all of us), collective solution (a law, which applies to everyone in the group, i.e. all Earthers)

An example of good individualist reasoning and ethics would be like: "Mike is constantly yelled at by Susan. Almost every day, she goes off the handle and yells at him for hours. His health is suffering from this. Therefore we're connecting Mike with a shelter and a social worker who's going to help him learn that he's too valuable to accept that treatment"

Collectivism, Individualism. Two lenses for looking at problems, just like physics and chemistry are two ways of looking at the world.

Oh my god this is so true.

I recently heard “Another Day in Paradise” by Phil Collins, which I hadn’t heard since the 80s when I was a kid. It immediately brought back memories of being at home and Mom playing that song a lot, with just the two of us in the house, after Dad left.

Looking back at those memories through my adult eyes (I have a nearly-photographic memory and can vividly remember even ancient memories as if I’m still there), I can see my mom’s sadness and loneliness.

And then I realize she was my age. She had a little five year old boy. She was alone, unsure what to do. Putting on a smiling face not just for me but for herself too, cleaning the house with that song blasting. Like, I can watch the memories like video and I can see the heartache I couldn’t see back then.

I just want to go back in time, wrap my arms around her, and hold her tight.

Because the waste products dissolved in your urine are yellow. The more water you mix them with, the lighter the color gets.

The body urinates for two reasons. One is to release urea and other waste products. The other is to maintain optimal water balance.

When you’re more hydrated, it pees even though the waste products haven’t built up very much.

• Exercise grows your hippocampus
• So do antidepressants according to recent research
• Small hippocampal volume is an excellent predictor of depression and anxiety
• Exercise grows your hippocampus, in a dose-dependent way
• Exercise grows your hippocampus
• Exercise grows your hippocampus

This is the most important fact I have ever learned.

Asking why Star Trek dominates the Federation? tsk tsk tsk

Aww, they’re scissor sisters now!

When they start focusing on the brand, it’s over.

I was part of a “startup” that was all volunteers. We called ourselves Citizens Market, and the idea was to produce an app that let you scan a barcode to get ethical info on the company who made the product.

Like GoodGuide, but they got to market faster.

After a few years of effort, a marketing person joined our all-volunteer team and convinced the head to change the name to Fosfo. Why Fosfo? Because matches have phosphorous in them, and so it referenced illumination, and the illumination had to do with our mission of … you guessed it: providing information.

The thing failed. I mean, we were already failing because we didn’t have the profit motive cutting our decisions down to what worked. But the name “Fosfo” was when I knew the project was dead.

“Citizens Market” was the perfect name for what our app would do. But no, had to have some web 2.0 jackass giving us a facelift. That was our path to salvation: a rebrand.

Symmetry is useful for locomotion. It’s an easy way to get backup instances of things. By “easy” I mean it doesn’t take much “code” to accomplish for the value it produces.

When something is more valuable and “cheaper”/“easier” requiring less code to set up, it’s more likely to be selected for.

Basically, evolution produces organisms that work well in the environment, mainly by the environment trimming off the ones that don’t work there.

Well it turns out you can achieve all sorts of forward locomotion just by having two mirror copies of a thing and moving the mirror copies in an off-phase rhythm. Once you’ve got that back-and-forth timing, your body just needs to tend forward and suddenly you’re mobile.

Let’s look at it another way. One requirement for mobility is a direction. You can’t move without moving in a direction. A direction is a line. You can create movability by varying an organism’s form along the line of travel. The introduction of additional lines dilutes the motion-enabling asymmetry across multiple vectors.

The body form that concentrates the most variation along a single line is bilateral symmetry. Radial symmetry diffuses that variation across multiple lines, and hence doesn’t create motion.

I know I’m being really, really abstract here, but it’s a concrete fact of motion and geometry. Let me take another stab at summarizing why bilateral symmetry enable motion:

• simplest one-line directional geometry is actually radially symmetric. Think of a coke bottle or a flower. It has a line.
• bilateral symmetry actually has a plane, leading to more diffusion of aim
• but bilateral symmetry makes neural control easier: your signal just has to be A-B-A-B-A-B… . Left, right, left, right, etc
• With your radially symmetric form you need signaling like: A-B-C-D-E-A-B-C-D-E-A-B… . Like tuning the cylinders on a turboprop engine. This is how flagella move: in a corkscrew shape. It’s hard to coordinate.

Shit I’m just making it more complex. Bilateral symmetry gives you a nice combination of directionality (enforced by the way gravity squishes that plane down into a line of movement).

This is why you see more bilateral symmetry as organisms get larger: gravity requires asymmetric designs to be stable across the gradient. You see those circular-firing motility types at a more micro scale, where the effect of gravity is smaller. That radially-symmetric torpedo-sperm-flower-coke bottle shape needs to be in a well-organized circle in order for its thrust to not send the organism off on a crazy tangent, or best case traveling on an inefficient helical path. And even if the path is helical, that will only tend in a straight line, ie toward a target, if it’s not being distorted by gravity.

So the microscopic realm, where gravity is more negligible, you see more organisms that use a helical strategy for motion.

As gravity gets more primary, at larger scales, you start getting shapes like fish that always keep one side up and another side down. And the way the fish moves, despite having variation top to bottom as well as front to back, is by having no variation left to right. That lack of left-right variation allows the complementary action of its left and right to balance out to a straight line.

Following the A-B-A-B firing pattern, the fish moves its tail back and forth and achieves forward motion.

I hope that helped at least a bit. I know it was convoluted.

Humans have a highly developed prefrontal cortex that allows them to suppress their own impulses through conscious will.

Humans don’t attack people when rabid because they know it’s wrong to do.

Keyboard. It’s got hotkeys for the most used characters. It’s so much faster than manually drawing each character in Paint.

Jesus christ do these people not understand what “Pause” means? It means my roommate just walked in and wants to discuss something. It means we’re looking at the freeze frame to see some aspect of the shot. It means the same damned collection of events should happen any time a “Pause” control’s been triggered since the invention of playback.

Why are the UX people not fighting them on this? Why does design have to be about breaking everything these days?

Oh no that is a very bad idea. Google search is the only way to find things on reddit

It was probably a scholarship for people with lower spinal paralysis. She was all set to collect the money but then she got roped into one of J-Roc’s grease videos.

Having to ask for PTO — also known as “unlimited PTO” — is the the shittiest employment practice.

Every time a recruiter tells me a company offers “unlimited PTO” I ask if I can please have regular old finite-but-actually-yours PTO.

You’ve heard of the greenhouse effect right? And how it’s named after greenhouses? You know what a greenhouse is? A glass building.

Those domes would be like ovens inside.

I can’t prove it, but my hunch is a lot of the obnoxious people I argue with online, who seem unable to see reason or resist devolving to insults and twisting my words, are actually foreign operatives tasked with depleting American morale

Standing there pumping gas is one of the last vestiges of just stopping and being there.

Last time I discovered a machine’s ads couldn’t be muted, I stopped the pumps and I’ll never go back to that gas station.

The level of disrespect is mind boggling.

I actually agree that nobody has a “right to air conditioning”.

But people do have a right to whatever’s been promised in a contract they signed.

This lady rented an apartment with an air conditioner. She’s paying for this apartment. The landlord isn’t allowed to just ignore requests for maintenance because they don’t feel like providing the air conditioner any more.

The air conditioner is part of the deal they agreed to, and the landlord isn’t holding up their end of the deal.

source?

I’m getting kid of tired of infographics with absolutely zero mention of the source, the reasoning, etc.

This seems mostly legit, but who knows?

It would be a very large undertaking to describe the changes since hidden breeding cycles are one of the things that separates humans from other apes.

Human women being able to choose when and with whom to mate, secretly, is one of the most significant aspects of what it means to be human.

Humanity is one of the few species whose evolution is primarily driven by sexual selection and not just the “I survived long enough to find a female so I reproduced” strategy we know of as natural selection.

I think federated networks are the present

Please tell me Fat Joe is Joe Biden. Please god please

Phones should shoot landscape video even when they’re held vertically.

🤯

No kidding. So far:

• What is at the most drastic possible interpretation only a case of exaggerated language. She said “killing people with this” when maybe she should have said “making people unhealthy with this” or “loading people up with too much sugar with this”. This civil case is being prosecuted under some kind of cyber terrorism / fomenting charge
• They put her in a water-filled holding cell where she could only stand or squat, not sit or lie down, for twelve hours
• After that, the police showed up at her home, invited themselves in, wouldn’t let her or her daughters leave, stayed there for twelve hours (doing what??)

This is evil, horrific, monstrous behavior. Corruption I think of as selling road building contracts over golf. This is evil corruption.