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dittography-direwolf

uncomfortablecliche

“ingredients household” you’re a fucking adult you should know how to prepare a snack or meal. shut uppppp

myboyfriendpetebuttigieg

I apologize to everyone whose grammar I ever corrected before I learned not to be a tool.

rakshar

your forgiven.

myboyfriendpetebuttigieg

You’re… really sweet to do that. Thanks.

doqteqs

Abstract. Monogamy has been argued to have played an important role in human evolution and, across animals more generally, evolutionary tran

Ancient DNA of humans from all over Europe, as far as Anatolia and the Urals, shows that the occurrence of genetic full siblings, as opposed to half-siblings, are at levels expected of monogamous species, and far outside the expected range of non-monogamous ones.

Early neolithic Britain was the closest in the sample to non-monogamy, but still within rates expected of monogamous species (neolithic France was among the farthest, so not much of a regional pattern there). Paternal siblings predominated over maternal ones everywhere, too.

People who believe that monogamy is just a recently imposed social construct, or that humans are just as well-adapted to polyamory, have some explaining to do.

lxsolocam-blog

gravityjunior

Starting a collection

seriousfic

I think some of you people shouldn't be allowed to watch children's media. You're grown, start watching Interview With A Vampire or that Heated Rivalry show. You have options. Stop going to Disney movies and imagining what they'd be like with dicks touching.

oracleoutlook

On the difficulty and importance of protecting the public square from the cult of expertise.

Yet another problem for our experts is that the source, nature, and relevance of their expertise is often ill-defined. A degreed professional like former First Lady Jill Biden might want to be called “Doctor,” but even those who accede will struggle to articulate just what kind of knowledge she has that the rest of us lack. What is the knowledge-how or knowledge-that accompanying a doctorate degree in educational leadership? Or take the world’s most famous diversity consultant, Robin DiAngelo, Ph.D., whose degree is in “Multicultural Education” and whose “area of research” is “Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis.” On what field of propositions would we expect her to be an authoritative source and ask the typical non-expert to defer, setting aside his own judgment for hers? Even when expertise is genuine, disciplines and professions, along with their practitioners, seem determined to overextend its breadth for purposes of laundering their personal, non-expert opinions under their expert brand.

ivan-fyodorovich-k

Historically it's been the privilege of the professional class to determine its members; lawyers decide who get to be lawyers, academics decide who get to be academics, but of course the implicit compact with society is that they can be trusted with that privilege

It was quite striking, and he's very insightful to point out that cartoon, the extent to which the 2016 election kind of revealed that for many people there is simply a certain class of people who are allowed to rule. All that "most qualified candidate in history" stuff was a stark demonstration and unwitting (?) admission that some people simply deserve power.

Still, though I have deep contempt for the laptop class in many ways, one thing that has never sat very well with me any time someone plies an argument like this is the implicit assumption that our society has managed to organize itself such that almost exactly 50% is completely vehemently utterly and fundamentally wrong about every thing that matters, and the other almost exactly 50% is pretty much reliable. It just seems so unlikely as to be impossible on its face.

Nevertheless I do agree and have observed, as have the rest of us, that would-be elites desperately want "elite" status (meaning credentials) to mean that their values and opinions should be given deference, not only within their own fields of so-called expertise but on pretty much any social question

alphamecha-mkii

G-Arnor by Noba

dittography-direwolf

basedhighsenberg

I'm a platter of mozzarella sticks and you've just woken up. How worried should I be?

bimmyjimmy

I finished putting a lot of the baby bimmy clips together!! It’s compilation style of some of the cutest videos I found… he was so little..

mortrite

Chinese take out: $10.50 Gas to get there: $3.25 Getting home and realising they forgot to give you one of your containers: riceless

dekuzmum

I HATE THIS FUCKING SITE SO MUCH

garmbreak1

why the fuck is protein in everything now

mitigatedchaos

I'm with the people who think it's Ozempic.

There were rumors that Ozempic/GLP-1s result in the loss of muscle mass. This makes sense if they change diet volume but not diet composition, so someone that was previously eating enough protein but also too much junk food starts eating both less protein and less junk food.

There were also rumors that food purchases were declining enough for Walmart to notice.

Combining these two leads to it being rational for junk food manufacturers to sell smaller amounts of food, with added protein, at higher prices, to appeal to Ozempic users and restore revenue.

I think this will go much better than the earlier "fat free (added sugar)" fad.

isaacsapphire

The Walmart thing was an early one: since Walmart has a pharmacy, they could easily link together the first shoppers who went onto Ozempic with changes in their shopping cart and realize that Ozempic prescriptions very reliably changed buying habits.

vriskakinnieaynrand

they were putting protein in everything before ozempic. i recall trying Protein Gatorade and throwing up before ozempic. seems more plausible that it's a response to the mainstreaming of gym culture in the 2010s

gearboxpraexology

Gatorade is a different animal though, and did have a market to capture within gym culture. Pop Tarts not so much.