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I've never used twitter in my life, still have a vague interest in what Musk is doing to it though.

Another way of looking at it is bottle openers look remarkably similar to beetle genitalia.

I think the beetles were here first.

That tracks.

Pretty sure Elon Musk railed against bots on twitter despite having been proven to have used bots on twitter to manipulate opinion himself.

I'm absolutely convinced!!!

That would make sense. The cats in my life have always seemed super expressive to me but I was infatuated with our family cat pretty much from birth.

Ah that's a good point. Maybe they just use windows or large pools of water.

Or cellphones.

I knew it!! When I was a kid I was told cats don't have facial expressions but they so do!

I have several hypotheses:

• the same force that stops them decaying also stops their hair from ever getting mussed up, falling out, or growing longer
• only we can't see their reflection, they themselves can see it
• vampires are essentially a representation of a parasitical upper class and as such they look like idealised wealthy aristocrats

Thanks so much, I understand the hypothesis now!!

And that article does show how it could map onto humans. For some reason I had been under the impression that early hominids did not necessarily have the females-as-strangers setup.

It's interesting to compare with elephants, who are matriarchal. The "Alice" of an asian elephant herd will often stop having kids (though, she biologically still can) so her daughters can have some, even though unlike Charlotte, her daughters are related to her so theoreticly it's more of a Bob/Daniel situation.

I feel like the stupidest person in the world because I still don't see the difference between Bob and Alice and now I also don't understand this part

If Daniel has a child, Bob won’t have a new child, to avoid starving his grandchild.

How does Bob do this? Why doesn't he just menopause too? If menopause ensures more descendant survival wouldn't they both do it?

Why doesn't Alice just die?

The troupe still have to find enough food for her, how is that an evolutionary advantage to keep a non breeding member around?

If something happens to Charlotte now the troupe cannot reproduce unless they go out and find a new female, but if something happens to Daniel then Bob can still reproduce with Charlotte. What is the advantage in that asymetry?

Edit: I was puzzling over the Charlotte factor. Is it more that somewhere along the line the Charlottes of this world were killing the non-menopausal Alices? Because that kind of would make sense.

Thank you so much for taking the time to try to explain it by the way. If you don't feel like answering my latest round of questions that's okay!

I'm old enough that a lot of things that were going to take a long time have come to pass, so I feel confident this will come.

AI and genetics are both moving fairly fast, and insurance is about numbers and probabilities.

But isn't old male and old female POV the same?

For both of them the new babies are biological grandchildren. So why would only one of them want to stop producing more? Why is there not a male menopause?

What am I missing here?

I'm waiting for the part where the US insurance companies are discovered using that data en mass to increase premiums and deny coverage.

That's going to be my "I told you so".

And elephants.

Kind of weird though that the males don't feel the same grandchild pressures.

I'm so sorry.

Apart from my illness support group, I'm only on fediverse social media now, and only via web browser. It's a breath of fresh air.

I'm realising there are subtle ways that enshittification constrains and shapes actual conversations between us.

Outside is in my top 5. It really holds up.

The accoustic version of Dead Man Walking with just Bowie and Reeves Gabrels is probably one of my all time favourites.

Shipton said people cared about the issue because it was becoming a sign of the “inequality” in the relationship between Australia and the US.

But this is the crux of it; unfortunately it is an unequal relationship.