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Baffled that anyone could look at the extreme diversity of body modification practices across cultures throughout history, many of which cannot be tied to ecological factors nor fit modern beauty standards, & claim socially learned preferences are unimportant or always functional

so we are not the only species to use fire

This is a truly wild article. About 5% of cyanobacteria fished from the ocean are connected via nanotubes. These nanotubes are made from lipid membranes. Also, E. coli will sometimes grab onto microbes of *other* species, using these nanotubes, and share nutrients.

I have long been wondering why the USA abandoned manufacturing, and I think I figured it out. it worked with fixed exchange rates, but switching to floating exchange rates and having a strong dollar benefits importing not exporting

high-leverage political move you can make in your city as a random programmer: create a website called SeattleStats or whatever and publish easy-to-consume graphs of the metrics that you actually care about then do a guerrilla QR code poster campaign to make it known

hypothesis: everyone is average actually, but end up paired with people who are *into* them. so they get subjective evidence that they are actually hot. I think that's actually the interesting question here, attraction is an individual thing, don't model it as objective.

boomer dad : yelling at TV millennial dad : reply guy

Sure, colonizing space is an ambitious goal, but you know what is EVEN MORE ambitious? Utopia On Earth

A very good question. I think autistic people would have been highly valued as repository of your cultures oral history, for just one example

a big part of this is *when* to make it

there is an easy way to fix this: just reduce US consumption in half

If a tiger is about to eat you, dont worry, it just means your matter is about to become part of a tiger

learn to sail in one day plus the rest of your life

Much of our knowledge of ancient individuals is limited to the elite, people like rulers/generals. Yet occasionally we come across archaeology that reveals a tiny glimpse of the life of a regular person. Meet Onfim! He lived 800 years ago and boy, did he find homework boring.🧵1/

Indigenous American food is amongst the best in the world just by virtue of Mexico and Peru, any arguments of foreign culinary introductions in those regions can be immediately dismissed as half of all food elsewhere is comprised of New World ingredients 🤷‍♂️

on the other hand, imagine all the amazing discoveries that havn't been made because the potential discoverer had to take a steady job to pay the mortgage instead of do fun research

it's the height of hubris to think you can cast shade on the sun

in a scarcity-based economic paradigm, knowledge is priced in a zero-sum competitive environment. but in an abundance-based economic paradigm, where everyone has their needs and desires abundantly, preponderantly met, spreading knowledge has maximum deep benefit; hoarding

these waves a huge, but a smaller ship would be sailing the other direction by this point, with the waves -- they are big, but long, so you can go up and over them more smoothly than into them

"existential threat" sets the bar too high, "civilization collapse" is better because there have been many, so we can reason about it. If we can prevent civ collapse, that implies preventing extinction too