I want to expedite my progression to the agricultural revolution so gonna pull the trigger on the:

• saw: animal pens, plow, later shelter

• tarp: early shelter, water purifier top + inner container, waterproofing

• pot: boil saltwater, cooking food (avoids disease, improves digestion)

• knife: hunting, defense, incorporate into larger traps

Notes: fire can be made with dry wood, rope can be made from twisting local fibers, hiking boots will last maximum a few years (not a long-term solution), iPod's battery lasts a few days, first-aid kit is a good runner-up especially depending on local flora/fauna, two blades (saw and knife) might sound redundant but it fast-forwards our tools into the metal ages which will help us develop agriculture way faster, fishing can be accomplished with nets made from local fibers and chum from leftover animal carcasses, a flare is practically invisible to commercial aircraft and finite, better to place several massive HELP signs on the beaches using stones or any pigment, raft and compass: you'll capsize on the waves if the island is far enough to be deserted, suncreen is too finite: just have melanin or stick to shaded regions during high sun, mirror: there are more efficient ways to start a fire.

I'm afraid I don't get it. Or if it's just an informal setting for a very formal profession then this is a rare miss for me dawg.

Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of this wall.

The YouTube channel Clint's Reptiles does a lot of steelmanning of Creationist arguments from an evolutionary perspective. He has a PhD in Biology and just happens to be a former atheist and current religious person. People accuse him of being a shill for both sides whivh is how you know you're doing it right.

I understand the appeal of steelmanning, however linguistically the term itself promotes the illusion that other genders are less equipped to engage in debate. It inherits this bias from the figure of the strawman being the only gender considered capable of protecting crops via manning the station.

A bias I have is that conservatism seeks to generate value through competition, whereas progressivism seeks to generate value through cooperation (i.e. game theory). If that premise is accepted then progressivism implies not limiting the scope of the language one uses, in order to gain maximum insights.

I suggest the ungendered neologism Best-case Framing as a substitute. It's potentially less binary or oppositional too as it can refer to all positions not just the us vs them I believe is suggested by steelmanning.

Additionally, Peyton Manning should change his name.

In theory it's popular, but in practice it's not. In theory: theory and practice are the same, but in practice: they're not.

This joke lies exclusively in its artistic representation. Very impressive, thst Larson.

For real though redness (red hair, freckles) comes from pheomelanin: a divergent form of traditional brown/black melanin (eumelanin) that both branch off from a shared precursor.

The selective pressure (if any) isn't settled but is thought to be potentially some combo of: relaxed pressure against skin camcer protection,Vitamin D synthesis, sexual selection, and liw evidence for pain modulation, immune signaling, and inflammation.

Agreed, but that was the only way we could do it. Sorta like a loophole the genie didn't expect becuz it's so dumb.

Thank you, I forgot what Charlie was holding to Mac's mouth. Why was Charlie doing that instead of Mac just using his other hand tho...?

Captain Mexico fights Captain Puerto Rico

Definitely biotechnology. The garage business revolution has been delayed for years (or is limited to unhelpful drugs of abuse).

I'm doing applied math from a contemporary philosophy (and a little physics) perspective. I want to approach it from the concept of the umwelt and link semicircular canals to dimensional perception using transformers [hagfish(1), lampreys(2), zebrafish(3)] then extrapolate to higher dimensions.

CNS disease drugs (Alzheimer's, stroke, ALS) translate from mice to humans under 10% of the time. Mouse models like the referenced primary source are poor proxies as they're engineered for single, clean pathologies (e.g. one mutation), while human neurodegeneration is messier, multifactorial, and not fully replicated even when surface features like amyloid plaques appear.

A 2024 massive Cochrane review didn't find enough evidence to recommend zinc for colds.

Reptar is no shame, Reptar empowers all beasts.

How in the $@-# are you sposed to change the direction of a conveyor belt?

Thanks!

This is how all ads should be: for good. Great job OP.

Pretty beautiful sentiment here. Legitimately.

Edit: I'd never had close friends my whole life, just arms' distance ones. Yet when I ended up in the hospital, despite having no emergency contacts, a new group I'd recently joined tracked me down and showed up to visit me. Once I got past the embarrassment I was sooo touched. Now they're my motivation to stay healthier.

Edit2: Nolan, famously the most empathetic character in all of fiction (eventually).

For anyone who did a double-take like me: Stephen McHattie ≠ Kevin Conroy.

This is exactly the tension between Nozick and Rawls. 👍