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my theory is that one of humor’s main uses is as a way to compartmentalize things like horror and sorrow, and if you spend a lot of time becoming acutely aware of how much misery there is out there your sense of humor gets a lot of practice to compensate
EDIT: long way to say we are a little twisted around here, a bunch of jokers even, clowns who find the prospect of doing crime…humorous
If I wanted to think I wouldn’t be posting
There’s a little chunk missing from the meat of my shin and I think it’s from a brown recluse bite. What the FUCK, I go out of my way to even put these venomous fuckers outside instead of killing them and this is how they repay my respect
Hearing (iirc) about how the Puritans didn’t officially name their children until their 10th birthday
Yeah the real issue in a way is that there’s just so much evidence of evolution happening that it’s hard to find a single shared pattern to study
Look at least I think all the age groups can agree that the GBA SP was a masterpiece of tech, look at that beautiful folding, backlit, rechargable marvel
Thank you, she was a great dog. I have a couple rescue cats to keep the grief from stinging too much but I lost one of them a few months ago too. And I miss the hell out of my lizard who died a little over a year ago, at least she was a normal age for it. I like to think it’s helping me develop grieving as a skill.
A few weeks ago I posted about my 8 year old dog dying suddenly, and unfortunately even after a necropsy I have very little closure. Apparently it was likely some kind of IMHA, essentially sudden onset anemia that may have been brought on by a relapse of tickborne ehrlichiosis she got before I rescued her. And when the symptoms begin as suddenly as hers did, the prognosis gets exponentially worse.
is really all I have for it. “There is no subtlety in death, it’s like a hurricane”
I always think back to being a kid and reading that His Dark Materials series and the way I pined terribly for having a daemon from those books. In reality it’s probably as simple as a mental exercise where I talk myself through a problem with a fellow “me” whose welfare is tied to my own but who isn’t exactly me.
The blunt rotation always has one of them it’s true
Man why do libertarians have to have a modicum of relevance and senatorial presence in America, they could just be like the political equivalent of village idiots who delight us with their harmless stupidity
If you can somehow make your internal monologue into a friend of yours everything gets easier.
Understand that zoologists, especially in the field, spend a lot of time very bored, and that’s a recipe for making the dumbest dirtbaggiest jokes you can. What starts as “that bird looks like it’s got a dick on its head dude” later becomes in scientific literature “phallocephalus”
If you’ve ever heard of the classic mating dynamic of “males who creep into the harem to mate while the alpha isn’t looking,” you have probably heard of them described as “sneaky males.” This is a change from the original designation the field biologists who first studied this behavior gave it, “sneaky fuckers”
My friend who worked in a civil war museum had the best answer for whenever hogs would try to engage him about this in public, which was to effect a very tough guy posture and say “I don’t believe in participation awards for losers”
Sometimes ants can’t smell ants either and you get supercolonies
is parenting like that saying about politics where the people best suited for it want nothing to do with it?
I have been doing evening sparring with a friend and even with no rank points on the line he tilts really hard and blames Akuma’s busted kit for the loss after getting his fireball jumped on for the 50th time (he is strong as fuck tho it’s true)
Unto Others has a great section about this. In a bunch of studied tribes who live generally pre-industrial lifestyles, the anthropologists were interested in how they “organize” big projects like building a house, and when they watched them, wondered what made them so willing to just do it.
Long story short, they saw how the kids watched them and subsequently “played” at doing things like building houses, carrying things together, etc. They essentially concluded that the “work” they did was understood more like play–that without any coercion to labor beyond meeting their needs, they were surprisingly eager to do that boring stuff because they made it into the day’s activity rather than grinding “work.”
TL;DR unalienated labor schniff and so on
Naked mole rats are considered an example of a truly “eusocial” mammal analogue to ants. More evidence for the idea that social behavior/societal grouping, once established in a species, characterizes it more potently than just about anything else in its genetic history. Chimps might be our closest genetic relatives, but the way we live and think is probably much more similar to these guys.