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So I had this idea... What if the male/female instinctual dynamic is similar to the vanguard (front line) and rear-guard in warfare? Perhaps female core instincts are simply geared towards operating in a rear-guard capacity. Her mating instinct desires a strong "vanguard," to act as "tip of the spear" in the genetic battle against the world, but her social instinct seeks to preserve safe zones (tribal group, extended family connections, etc) as "fall-back points" for herself and her offspring in the event the "vanguard" is killed (which was a common problem for most of history). This would explain the desire for the "safety net" qualities and the simultaneous aversion to having those qualities in a mate: They are mutually exclusive from a combat standpoint. Your "front line" can't also be your "safety net." For males, it also explains why their social instinct is to "hang with the boys" (other front-line fighters), while expecting females to "mind the hearth" (the "fall back point" for the males).

@Deppwifebeater @richbrian Nope. x.com/i/status/20507…

@j14754 @richbrian Is this ai?

is there a movie that’s set in space but doesn’t acknowledge it at all, like a crazy stupid love type romcom but in space for no reason

@frociaggini @richbrian Does kinda look a little like it might be, now you mention it... but no, it's not: imdb.com/title/tt236931…

@j14754 @richbrian This is ai generated

@SaulieTheDon @Press_X_Fool @Moses1150599 @Zona_G1 LOL, you're right, I don't know anything about what an actual disabled person who really needs a wheelchair would want or use. I'm also answering the question literally, in response to someone who's saving money on a wheelchair lift by climbing ropes hung from the ceiling. So 🤷‍♂️

@j14754 @Press_X_Fool @Moses1150599 @Zona_G1 Nobody who is actually disabled or paralyzed is gonna use a chair like that. They wouldn't suffice at all. You're just talking about something you don't even know

@Zona_G1 so what does he do once he gets up there without the chair, jus drag himself around? or is there a 2nd chair

@SaulieTheDon @Press_X_Fool @Moses1150599 @Zona_G1 I clearly said "cheap, basic": amazon.com/s?k=wheelchair Not that he likely wouldn't want a better one, but for limited or infrequent use it would suffice.

@j14754 @Press_X_Fool @Moses1150599 @Zona_G1 They don't cost anywhere near that. You're way off. Try 3 to 5 thousand

@Press_X_Fool @Moses1150599 @Zona_G1 A basic, cheap manual wheelchair costs like $100-200. With how much he's saving on the lift he could buy a new one every year for the next 50 years and still come out ahead.

@Moses1150599 @Zona_G1 i assumed those things were really expensive i really dont kno bout this world at all fr

@SortedVFR @Tutrifour You lose maneuverability as you slow down, leaving you at the mercy of oncoming traffic. I think it was maintaining adequate speed to maneuver (into a ditch if necessary), which would be the appropriate course of action until the coast was clear.

@Tutrifour Really correct driver reactions in avoiding head-on collisions. Well done people. 🫡 Cybertruck appears not to have braked as hard as they could have? probably due to the fear monster and shock.

Cybertruck vs idiot

@SandyofCthulhu Had Grok Imagine take a crack at it. I've never read the story so I can't vouch for how accurate it might be, but visually it's not bad. grok.com/imagine/post/c…

Sometimes visual media can't fully get across the feel of a book they're based on, unless they meander away from the original description. A good example is the film Dagon, which is based on The Shadow Out of Innsmouth. Now, in the story, Lovecraft describes the monsters as hopping, slithering fish-frog hybrids. It's creepy in the story, but frankly, it can be a challenge for a movie to make fish-frogs very scary. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's also not trivial. So Stuart Gordon decided to take the easy way, and made his hybrid sea-creature/humans based off octopi and squid rather than fish. This made his life a lot easier. Yeah he still had monsters with sharp fangs and pop-eyes and webbed hands, and he didn't specifically call out octopuses, but it made his Deep One effective and creepy for a modern audience. So even as a total Lovecraft purist I approved. Maybe someday technology will advance to the point that we can make the Gillman creepy instead of just monstrous. 1/2

@prerat @JIMMYEDGAR Had a fun take on a similar idea: x.com/i/status/20286…

imagine a world where people only form long term memory during sleep during each day, everyone is forgetful -- tell someone your name, and they won't remember an hour later. but tomorrow, after sleeping, they *will* know your name but then you learn this world has a secret...

@niersgestalt Agreed. Now that ****** owl though...

playing ocarina of time for the first time in 2026 is crazy because i've been hearing people complain about navi since i was like 9 and then you actually play the game and she barely talks to you

@BigDickBarclay Loool... 😆 You should see my 720P Vizio from 2009. It's so old the LCD has what looks like water damage in bright scenes.

Hey, all of you guys making fun of me for my medium definition television set up. Look at this beauty I found today at work. I was only able to get this one picture but I wish you guys could see it from the side. Probably 6 inches thick. No data tag from what I could see but probably at least 20 years old.

It's mostly the abstractions, but maybe not in the way intended. The average modern programmer has very little "feel" for the underlying hardware operations; ie, they don't really understand what's happening "under the hood". It's possible to make a performant program in a slow language, or atop a bloated framework, but you have to understand what's happening behind the scenes. That, and "It's good enough, lets just move on" compounding over time.

I'm writing a Dave's Garage episode on why new computers are slower than old ones (spoiler alert: it's the software). After enjoying my obligatory photo of counting 6502 cycles like it was the olden days, let me know what you think is the biggest factor in why current code is so much slower than old code. Here are my basic premises so far: - We lost the hardware constraints that kept us honest - No enforced CPU/RAM budgets, no daily benchmarks - Abstractions without accounting for their costs - Incentives shifted towards feature release speed - Lowered perf standards, where "it works" is enough - Dependency explosions in code - AI is also a multiplier of mediocrity What am I missing?

@AELBenny @mistressdivy I don't know about the 66.6 thing, but sweating at 98.6 is easy. Same reason you can sweat while working in 30 degree weather: Your body generates heat while operating (that's what makes us "warm blooded"), and that heat has to go somewhere.

@mistressdivy Why does the difference between 98.6 degrees ( normal body temp) and 32 degrees (freezing)come to 66.6 degrees? How come, when it's 98.6 degrees out we sweat? Shouldn't we be completely comfortable at that temp?

can you PLEASE tell me about your most insane conspiracy theories and i dont wanna hear "we didn't land on the moon" i wanna hear stuff you can't fully prove but just know its true 👇

@techbromemes Wait, Publisher is only *just now* being discontinued? Are you gonna tell me Works is still around next? (I say this as someone who actually used both in the 90s and hates that they were sidelined.)

@DeDunkingPast This statement also applies to the movie on display.

For those who can’t fathom how techniques could be lost over time, those who mock the idea the ancients made things we today cannot, I present to you the humble laserdisc. Manufactured from the mid 70s to the early 00s. Find me a place to make more. We CANNOT make them today.

@Swag_K1RBY Huh... did I leave the theater too soon?

Planes (2013) is such an anomaly It’s mostly Unfunny comedy and Cars plagiarism and then this shit happens

@SandyofCthulhu I just missed the barrow wights, and I wish Jackson could have still worked them in somehow.

Tom Bombadil stops the story cold. We are in an exciting cross-country trip as the hobbits pick their way through a creepy haunted forest to avoid the sinister Black Riders. A terrifying black huorn ensnares them. Poof! Here comes Tom deus-ex-machina Bombadil to save the hobbits from a threat which Tolkien seems to have created to give him an excuse to insert Bombadil. Then, just as the story starts to move again, Tom shows up a SECOND time as a deus-ex-machina to rescue the hobbits from the barrow wight. Ugh. Again stopping the story cold. What is Bombadil's function? He doesn't represent the Old Good Ways which the fellowship must save. Bombadil isn't threatened - he's a cheesy distraction. I'm not saying it's impossible to convince me that Bombadil is a Good Thing, but such a convincing would be an uphill battle, and I view Tom as one of Tolkien's missteps. I am happy Jackson left him out of the film, because it would have stopped the movie's flow too.

@pshs04 Posts on Walter Russell and cymatic wave theory. You seem to have interesting perspectives.

I'm scanning my following list. I want to do a purge. 3.7k is too big. Comment below why you follow me

@Rrezzolution @funEDEDD I mean, the Magical Girl is more of a witch, but yeah... "Saga of Tanya the Evil"

@funEDEDD I feel like we now need a WWI or WWII Magical Girl anime...

@historyinmemes I'm not sure I'd call attaching a bronze cast of my arm to a tree "brief human contact."

This is what happens when you hold onto a tree and never let go as it keeps growing. Giuseppe Penone created It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point by casting his hand around the trunk of a young tree and then leaving it alone. Over time, the tree grew freely in every direction except where the hand once pressed, preserving a single, permanent indentation. Nothing was cut or reshaped by force—the work emerged through time, growth, and restraint. Long after the hand disappeared, its trace remained in the living wood, a quiet record of how even brief human contact can leave a lasting mark on nature.