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Why Avocados Shouldn't Exist

AnimalsForCrackers says...

Did a quick search on your first one because stuff like this interests me.

The prevailing opinion seems to be the most intuitive; the Americas also had a variety of Pleistocene cats/cheetahs (explains the speed) and dogs/hyenas (explains the seemingly uncharacteristic endurance as compared to their Old World "counterparts") which evolved alongside the nigh-extinct family ( Antilocapridae) of which pronghorns are the last living
members.

The second one, I don't know, because the plant got bored one day (as they are wont to do) and decided to spice things up?

Buttle said:

Some other evolutionary whodunits from the new world:

Why did pronghorn antelopes become the second fastest running animals in the world?

Why do honey locust trees have thorns all over their trunks?

Hey! Stupid Sexist Questions are asked of Male Athletes too!

AnimalsForCrackers says...

From the video description :

"Disclaimer: These are not the actual responses of the athletes featured in these clips. These are comments or questions asked of female athletes that we’ve adapted to fit these news clips, in order to show how ridiculous it is that female athletes are asked these questions."

I'm confused. It really would have been nice to put the disclaimer stating this pretty important distinction in the video BEFORE it started.

I'm honestly trying to understand the point being made via the selective editing and not actually showing real world like-for-like comparisons. It muddles the message for those who do recognize that and almost lies by omission to those who don't.

Is this hashtag movement honestly trying to suggest that male athletes (especially those who embody some of the more rock-star aspects of professional athletic stardom, which is after all an entertainment industry first and foremost) don't get asked inappropriate, shallow, or prurient questions all the fricking time?

The ominous music is telling me I should be concerned though, so I'll just go with it and not ask questions.

Baffled by Stupidity: Richard Dawkins

Reverse Racism, Explained

AnimalsForCrackers says...

This is kind of an aside, but I thought dogs vary so wildly in physical characteristic and behavior (over such a small period) not because of their rate of reproduction, but because favorable traits were selected for/unfavorable traits selected against artificially, by people.

Yes, they breed faster than us which helps the process along and, yes, the desired traits will vary geographically depending on a whole host of cultural and practical concerns, but without our guiding hand there'd be little outside impetus for such seemingly drastic change at all, right?

jwray said:

It's a clever rationalization of hypocrisy. If it's going to be taboo to observe patterns in groups of people demarcated by visible characteristics they were born with, be consistent about it. But I'd argue against that taboo.

What makes racism bad is treating people as specimens of a group rather than unique individuals. Group averages may differ slightly but there's tons of overlap. Common usage of the word "racism" unfortunately conflates a moral aspect (how to treat people) with an epistemological aspect (dogma that all groups are created exactly equal in every way). Epistemology shouldn't be moralized. I could give you lots of examples of sociological and psychological research getting muddled on account of an inflexible dogma that there couldn't be any heritable differences between groups other than the obvious superficial ones. I'd rather conceive of the word racism as a verb describing harmful actions towards people due to their group membership, not a noun denoting a thoughtcrime or speechcrime. Like church and state, or science and religion, epistemology and morality don't go together.

A priori based on generation times and mutation rates you should expect there could be 1/10 as much variation between historically isolated groups of humans as there is between breeds of dogs, since the most recent common ancestor of all domestic dogs is half as far back as humans' most recent common ancestor is (or rather was before 16th and 17th century explorers spread their sperm across the globe) but dogs breed a lot faster. Breeds of dogs demonstrably vary in many behavioral and psychological traits. It's not far fetched to suppose that a variety of environments over the past 100,000 years of humanity pushed population means of behavioral traits in various directions.

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Tailgating is bad, okay!

AnimalsForCrackers says...

I don't see this video in terms of good or bad guys, more like multiple shades of idiot.

Tail-gating, vigilante justice as a result (though it's totally possible there was a legitimate reason for breaking that fast that we don't know of), and more tail-gating/inattention from behind.

Though my definition of tail-gating is more along the lines of not providing yourself sufficient space to break and avoid a split-second collision rather than "he can see my headlights so I'm good".

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Bird Dancing across Road to Daft Punk’s Something About Us

AnimalsForCrackers says...

Looks like an American Woodcock (snicker).

These well-camouflaged little guys spend most of their life tentatively creeping through the underbrush, effectively off-setting the sound of their own movements by moving "in-tune" with the rhythms of the forest and appearing as leaf-litter gently swaying in the wind.

I don't know, maybe a misfiring of that instinctual behavior when confronted with our own artificial rhythms might be what we're seeing here?

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Does the Universe Have a Purpose? feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson

AnimalsForCrackers says...

Bracingly, I would try to explain to someone putting forth that line of reasoning that introducing an additional unknown mechanism of a far greater, more astronomically high improbability and complexity to explain the original and (by comparison) far simpler, more probable thing runs counter-intuitive to the very measure of expectation they invoked to dismiss it in the first place.

silvercord said:

Like his answer: " I'm not sure." As to the rest, others see the fact that we are here as an indication of a Higher Power. They say that probabilities mitigate against our existence in such astronomical numbers that this 'randomness' Tyson refers to speaks against life coming into being without purposeful input.

16-Year-Old Atheist Jessica Ahlquist Faces Death Threats

AnimalsForCrackers says...

>> ^bobknight33:

You never read about the framers of our county.
The were deeply devout.
You are deeply miss informed.>> ^fuzzyundies:
quantummushroom, stop defending bigots in the name of freedom. Your position represents neither the word or spirit of the framers of the Constitution (which doesn't even mention a god) or the signers of the Declaration of Independence (which barely mentions a creator).


Their own personal beliefs are completely irrelevant to the discussion. You appear to be deeply miss ing the point. Next.

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Millions of Unknown Creatures Washing Ashore in Hawaii

Woman Arrested for Taking 5 Year Old to Tanning Salon

AnimalsForCrackers says...

>> ^Yogi:

Fucking Hell woman do you OWN a mirror!? Is this like anorexia? When she see's her reflection does she see someone who is WAY too light colored?


Looks like some form of body dysmorphic disorder, so yeah, pretty much. Anorexia can fall within that category but doesn't necessarily always have to (many different causes).

Also, you guys are terrible! All jesting aside, I hope this woman gets the help she clearly needs before she ends up passing her compulsions onto her daughter (or further the damage she may have already done). I imagine mommy here is much more naturally pretty as a fair-skinned red-head than this crispy monstrosity we see here before us (assuming the daughter takes after her genetically, the point stands either way).



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