LOL, that’s possible, but it wasn’t just that—it was also because Psychology was a very new branch of science. It emerged in the late 1800's, and by the 1940's and 50's, it was (and certainly still is) really struggling to establish credibility as a discipline on par with physics and biology, which is really hard to…

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What’s your basis for saying they all ate each other? Where’s your evidence for that?

What I described isn’t an outlier, that’s just how most hunter-gatherer cultures do it, as observed in the field. Some have a little hierarchy, but nothing like what you or I would consider normal.

I don’t know if it’s the death of dating, but I’ve only learned about Tindr in the last year or so. The first time someone described it to me, it sounded like it made hooking up about as casual as ordering a pizza. I know that’s a simplification, and I’m not about to say there’s anything wrong with casual hook ups.…

That’s definitely been my experience, as an idealistic straight male gen-X’er, as well. It’s taken me many painful lessons to learn to get a handle on that shit. Most of my male friends are like that, too. Kind of flies in the face of cultural stereotypes, but I think a lot of guys are more interested in a…

Vimeo doesn’t have a choice; they’re legally obligated to do so, simply because someone complained. DMCA is a “shoot first and ask questions later” piece of legislation; specifically designed to crush independent content creators.

And how well the lobbyists are bribing them.

Fuck these guys. Seriously. Fuck them and their greed. And fuck Adam Sandler. They steal ideas from other people and then have the nerve to claim those other people are stealing from them.

Fall asleep watching Conan? Come on, man. It’s just a couple of scenes, and it’s not unusual for movies of that era to have long establishing / filler shots like that. It’s not their fault no one has an attention span anymore. Plus, the acting certainly isn’t Shakespearian, but it does the job. I thought the guy who…

So you’re saying that psychology is based on subjective values and not facts. But so is everything you’re saying. There’s no factual basis that high intelligence, or physical perfection, are always good things, even if they seem to be on the surface.

This seems a bit ridiculous.

I dunno... as a guy, I've definitely experienced the feeling of thinking a woman was attracted to me when it turned out she wasn't, but I also know I've missed a lot of chances for fun & romance when the opposite was true. Now that I'm older, I just tend to assume that women aren't interested unless they give some…

I haven't heard of Sex at Dawn, but then I also didn't claim any of this information was new. It's well known to anthropologists; just, sadly, not to many other people.

Wow... Thank you for helping me to understand this issue better, for putting it in such human terms. I regret only that I've come to hear it so long after the fact.

Please, indeed. Grind your own damn Gnoles, screw the achievements, and to hell with the dungeons. Of all the RPG's ever invented, D&D might have been the first—but it is also one of the crappiest, and its imitators are even worse. I get that you're joking, sort of, but the thought of the cosmos as a repeating…

Yes, thanks, I'm aware of that. Nick Bostrom is pretty famous by now. But think about what you just said: if we are living in a simulation, then maybe there really is an afterlife—a world beyond the simulation. Maybe dying is really just like waking up from a long dream, or logging off from a highly immersive…

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but insults and poor grammar really don't help your cause.

Thanks for the suggestion Ad19 — I'll give that a try; especially writing the first draft in pen instead of on the computer. I hadn't really thought about it before, but now that you mention it, I would definitely be less prone to edit as I write when it's not so easy to change things (like it is in a word…

Indeed—I think our pre-modern ancestors knew how intelligent many animals could be—especially the larger wild canines. I think that's the reason for the many myths and tales about fox, wolf, and coyote spirits, and other types of animals. These animals are often regarded as "trickster" spirits, or as shapeshifters…