As nature intended

There’s always some percentage of people who are ignorant of global issues and want to stay out of things… You’d think they were Farage voters but actually they usually don’t vote

I upvoted one and downvoted the other four balance

You have them in comics a lot, I wonder if…

I have actually had to write something that used the Google drive API for a friend’s company once and it was… Unpleasant. Counterintuitive. Woefully inconsistent. My solution worked but it sucked and I am a bit ashamed of it

I am not sure if I mispoke or misread. Apologies for implying ignorance, I just wanted to dump my mind

All social media can be anonymous if you want it to be ;)

Lol yeah can only imagine what playing ‘hunt the bad device’ would’ve been like back when those boxes had actual fuses on them. (That’s the game where the main circuit breaker gets tripped and you have to figure out first what ring it’s on, and then which specific item is tripping it)

No fuses in the switch box though, it’s a box of circuits breakers

I don’t think 23 is wildly off from 25, and honestly this is just the first one I found that mentions it, I’ve seen various different sources for different reasons in the past. But the average is based on genetic mutations, and obviously in any given human it’s irrelevant how large a generation is as to how much genetic mutation is contributed by the generation. Like even if there are 8 billion people today, that doesn’t imply that you somehow got more generic inheritance from your parents than they did from theirs back when there were 6 billion people or whatever. Judging average to be the average per generation (a reasonable inference given the methodology) the last few years won’t make much of a difference in a timescale of 250k years

I can’t find the article I vaguely remember from a while ago, here’s another random one that has mothers in the bronze age ranging from 16-40ish https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314262257_Bronze_Age_Beginnings_The_Conceptualization_of_Motherhood_in_Prehistoric_Europe although you can’t really infer much about averages from that.

Anyway yeah there have been periods in time when average age of mothers was younger, but generally if you look back on a long timescale it’s been older than people seem to assume. Seems to be quite common to have the notion that women all had children at 16 or whatever back in the day but not much to really bear that out that I can find.

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/average-age-of-conception-throughout-human-history/151423/ nah it’s pretty much been the average age of mothers for a very very long time indeed

There were moments in its history when it maybe wasn’t as bad as the competition, but it’s not been great of late

Well you’re not fucking wrong mate

Reader mode also works beautifully on mobile for sites that’re otherwise friendly but have a clunky layout on width-constrained windows

When I say asshole I usually mean someone with whom I’m currently dissatisfied

who precisely is snowing in self pity

I dunno, you’re the one who talked about it. Don’t ask me what you mean, lol, not my fault if you don’t understand yourself

I don’t see anyone wallowing in self-pity on my side of the fence here, it’s a matter of ‘violence costs lives’ and you don’t change a system to one that you prefer and most other people don’t without organised and persistent violence

Yeah so I guess I’d always imagined that the closest you can really get given the laws of physics to instant travel would be disintegration+information transfer+matter synthesis. But matter synthesis is probably ruled out by the amount of energy required to do anything, and the complexity of correct assembly. Still, fun to think about.

I’d settle for speed of light tbh

That bit largely already happened. Twitter isn’t self-funded, it loses lots of money already. It’s just a tool cumbadger Elon uses to exert influence. Like Bezos and WP, but better value for money.