Mobiuthuselah

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There's no one answer to your question, but from an ecological standpoint, sexual selection plays the main role in this. There are a lot of variables and the societal pressures are integral. The people you live around, and the multigenerational influences that shape your community steer this selection. But that's not to say that nature is intentional.

As an example, the people who came to Hawai'i had a tendency towards very large men and very small women. Because of the isolation in the islander cultures and the relatively small population sizes, this could exaggerate selective pressures. I think it's important to point out for whoever needs to hear it that being small statured should not be confused with subservience, absolutely.

This is one example in a whole world of variables that agree with your observation, but there are many cultures where that sexual selection is completely different. The ideas of who does what in a relationship in order to build a life with another person is influenced by the agreements we've been taught in our communities and carried on in a way that expresses itself genetically over time. Like you said, people like what they like, and as such, the idea of beauty (or desirability as a mate, more accurately) continues to change and is not the same in other places. Ultimately, those that reproduce will give rise to certain selections, but the reasons are so varied that it can't be apparent until looking at long spans of time and generalized pressures.

All that to say, nature is not choosing or steering anything. Natural selection is backward-looking. It is an adaptation to pressures that existed, not an ideal or purpose for the future. It's accidental, and stumbling, and pure chance in a lot of instances.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

She didn't get depressed because you didn't talk to her, and she wasn't interested in you because you were VP of the science fiction club in high school. It all just sounds so self important even if that's not your intent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This feels like you're a bit defensive about your understanding of the subject. Somehow you've been led to believe that this affects every kid not in public school. That's demonstrably false.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not in favor of the voucher programs, but you're diluting the opposition to them by claiming some incredibly misinformed bullshit. Just seems funny that we're talking about education systems, and yours seems to have failed you.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I just told my wife Mint was shutting down and she gasped, frozen in shock. I was thinking she was taking it really hard. Took me a minute before I realized she thought I was talking about our favorite Indian restaurant.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Let's not get ahead of ourselves

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Don't let movies do your thinking for you. This is an effective eradication method that has been used successfully for many years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Storytelling is not your thing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Trickle down economics trickling down something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My wife found one huddled in the middle of the road earlier this year, probably only five or six weeks old. Our attempts at fostering have failed spectacularly. She loves it here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking forward? Maybe you mean expecting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's right, there's is a process. You can't just bury people without reporting the death and going through some sort of process. That's a good bit different from an actual natural burial even if at face value he did bury her naturally lol. That's wild. I've heard of that happening in my region in the southern Appalachians too.

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