This is a whole bot network that hit the sub with ~100 account overnight. No point arguing with them.

You're conflating cultural evolution and biological evolution. They're qualitatively very different, and operate on entirely different time scales. 10k years ago? The first modern humans appeared 300k years ago, and we were talking about ancestors before that. Sure, you could posit that our biological evolution hasn't adapted to recent cultural evolution, but it has no bearing whatsoever on what I said.

As for your comparison to chimps: just because similarities exist, does not mean they are the same. All the similarities between chimpanzee and human sociality in the world don't erase facts like that a same/similar expression like smiling has very different meanings among chimps compared to humans. Human and chimp sociality are definitely not the same.

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Had a few classes where if we were within one order of magnitude of the correct answer it was marked close enough.

With numbers so big it’s very easy to be off by wayyy more than that

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This is a pretty well researched area and there is some well established data available on the topic that establishes the mechanisms that link worklessness and inactivity, to poor health outcomes. The Royal Australasian College of Physicians have put out a position statement and paper, along with recent data updates that explain some of this.. Worth a read!

https://www.racp.edu.au/advocacy/division-faculty-and-chapter-priorities/faculty-of-occupational-environmental-medicine/health-benefits-of-good-work

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sound *is* a pressure wave. what other speed should sound have?

so - yes

And we seem to be trying to replace it with online socialization, to disastrous effect.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142018/#:~:text=Proposed%20mechanisms%20by%20which%20exercise,stress%20%5B30%2C32%5D.

Can you post a link to that study?

I wonder where those people fit in who voluntarily choose total isolation and seem to be doing fine. Recently I saw a video about a guy who has been living in a hut in Siberia for 25 years, 30 km away from the closest settlement, because he "didn't like it in the village". He's probably a pretty weird guy but I doubt that his lifestyle is physically harming him.

So probably quite a few people are wired to live not as social animals, and isolation likely hurts only those who are isolated against their wishes.

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I'm not certain, but the freezing may actually kill more bacteria in that scenario. At least most cells don't like freezing and unfreezing.

I'm not certain, but the freezing may actually kill more bacteria in that scenario. At least most cells don't like freezing and unfreezing.

Cosmology and astronomy are the only field of science where I feel that the numbers are just made up, and the measurements don't matter.

I'm not certain, but the freezing may actually kill more bacteria in that scenario. At least most cells don't like freezing and unfreezing.

I'm not certain, but the freezing may actually kill more bacteria in that scenario. At least most cells don't like freezing and unfreezing.

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