berrytopylus
I think that way about evolution sometimes. It's blitheringly obvious when you consider the two points
- There is a difference between parent and offspring and yet they also inherit traits
- Differences add up
Both are easily observable in the natural world. The first one can be seen with babies "oh you have your mother's eyes" while also the baby not literally being the mom. The second one is used by walking where we cross a large distance one step at a time.
And all you need is those two principles to come to the conclusion that the small yet inheritable differences between offspring will add up over a long period of time. The question to be asked isn't if it will happen but rather just what traits it happens to.
And yet, it took humanity (and for many people still they refuse) millennial to grasp it. I'm looking at the process as so simple only from the lens of someone born after it was figured out.
I think it's a good post honestly, main critique is that it feels accusatory like "I gotta teach you all to not be anti semitic because you currently are" ya know?
But I'm not sure how to get rid of such a tone so maybe it's unavoidable. I totally agree with you though that this shit is messy and you need to be hyperspecific in criticisms.
Wasn't the chastity belt hacking story a fake? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEM6SHbjY7Y
Edit: looking into it more, seems like there was a (maybe) real story about it perhaps and then the YouTuber messaged the writer of the original coverage and pretended he was a second victim.
Modern Warfare 2 (the first one). When you're climbing the ice wall and you fall and get caught, the level of detail on the face was astounding to kid me. It was like watching something in real life to me.
Probably helped that it was off of my sister's high def TV.
The way people talk about when they turned 30 honestly makes it terrifying to us younger folk, which is pretty weird when you consider that 30 is actually still a pretty young age compared to the 80-90 years that you can get nowadays (and who knows how much is possible by the time we're all seniors).
To be clear here, while they advocate for UBI this isn't really a study on the topic as much as it is on direct cash payments to the homeless. Which has been supported by tons of different research in Canada, London, so many places I can't even remember them all.
Blockbuster isn't that old yet, I'm not even 30 and have memories of getting Sailor Moon and Pokemon VHS there. Heck by some definitions I'm even a Gen Z so I guess it's super early Zoomer memories lmao
but that probably cannot be said about Canada.
Depends on what you're eating. Even in the most insanely priced areas, beans and rice tend to be pretty damn cheap, and North Americans do not eat a lot of rice or beans or chili or other cheap foods that are staples in lots of Asian diets.
Butterflies are just crazy animals in general. Back in the 1800s there was even a naturalist arrested in Chile because they thought he was spreading lies about them https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/insect-metamorphosis-evolution/
The funniest thing to me is the people who are like "It's against the law to be in the left lane if you're not passing!" because dudes, it's also against the law to be speeding yet you're doing that.
You can't really sit there and start getting angry about traffic violations when you're in the middle of one.