[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

If the social conditions have existed for long enough to have an evolutionary effect, what's the difference?

And as another commenter mentioned you don't need to fetishize breasts to be attracted to them.

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Women have breasts because some prehistoric dudes decided they were good. It's literally biological. No other animal (or not many) has massive tiddies like humans. They're definitely the result of sexual selection.

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There are records of why it was bent though. It was one of the first pyramids. The king wanted it very tall and steep. he ended up being burried in a pyramid with less slope. Do you have any archeological evidence of complex geometry being used?

Again, the pyramids are an impressive feat of craftsmanship and the organization of labor, but does that mean they employed the pythagorean theorem?

They may very well have known geometry, or at least developed during the course of their civilization but I don't think the pyramids represent sufficient evidence for them definitely knowing the pythagorean theorem

edit: also if you haven't heard the podcast, i recommend it. It's pretty cool

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

What makes you say that? I'm not an expert. Accurate geometry or not, the pyramids are pretty cool. What about them means it couldn't have been trial and error?

https://www.si.edu/spotlight/ancient-egypt/pyramid

About halfway up, however, the angle of incline decreases from over 51 degrees to about 43 degrees, and the sides rise less steeply, causing it to be known as the Bent Pyramid. The change in angle was probably made during construction to give the building more stability

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

The recent "Fall of Civilizations" podcast talks a lot about the history of the pyramids. They may still have known a lot about geometery, but the slopes and angles involved in the pyramid building seem to have been trial and error as much as anything

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i'm not an expert, but my reading was that it was hidden in a binary used for testing EDIT: oh yeah, i see what you mean

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yet he still qualifies that statement:

Children: Humans up to age 12 or 13 are children. After that, they become adolescents or teenagers

link to his current site. scroll down to children

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe we're reading something different, or this is tongue and cheek but "Alibaba's research arm, the Damo Academy, " sounds like research arm is a synonym for "research division" or "research department".

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Do you watch stefan milo?

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Foundation is awesome. It also has a very fun BBC radio drama on archive.org

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

where else do you pipe output in scripts?

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Check out maya.land. especially webmentions.

I don't know how to tag a user on lemmy. Is maya still around?

I'm also a big fan of confusing landing pages.

EDIT: an RSS feed for any website, old or new

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