JaymesRS

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[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

As a fan of the series. It was fun.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 2 points 5 minutes ago

She’s sooo good.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

The ebook is an Amazon exclusive unfortunately. It used to be possible to convert with calibre, but Amazon closed that loophole unless you have a kindle floating around. They all got released in hardcover this year. Alternatively you could buy them on Amazon and then pirate them in a more accessible format.

The series is pretty good.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

Welcome! Have you seen our Book Bingo? It just started May 1st.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 64 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

We don’t know their relationship, could be something they’d already agreed upon; you know the old “Coldplay, Hotwife” situation.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In fact, hiccups are a really good comparison. I’d say everyone has had or will have hiccups at least once in their normal lifespan. For some people they may even get stuck with them for an extended time to the point one seeks medical intervention.

But they are adaptation from an amphibian ancestor of ours that needed them to be able to transition from breathing in water to breathing on land. We don’t benefit from them anymore, but they don’t negatively impact reproductive fitness so they stick around. (See: Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin)

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

You provided two great examples, the recurrent laryngeal nerve and vagus nerve as well as hiccups, eye colors, some anemias, like sickle-cell or iron deficiency are others. However, your misunderstanding about what evolutionary adaptation (or more accurately, natural selection) is doesn’t mean somebody else has to prove you wrong, just because you define something incorrectly.

And all I pointed out was that your description of evolution by natural selection was wrong, the natural selection process “doesn’t care” about the existence of things that don’t decrease reproductive fitness, so those features won’t be selected against. Things that may have been useful to an ancestor in a different body configuration but not us, may continue to exist, but that’s not an argument for its continued usefulness. So saying the fact a foreskin still exists therefore it must be useful isn’t supported by the way genetic evolution by natural selection works.

Sources aren’t even hard to find:

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Two, if there’s a flap of skin attached to and covering a body part, and this flap appears on very nearly every single male ever, there’s likely a really good reason evolutionary biology brought it about.

I’m not saying this in support of circumcision, but that’s not at all how evolutionary adaptation works. We are full of parts that are no longer useful and are infact sometimes downright more risky to have just because they aren’t likely to negatively impact our ability to procreate.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I finished what’s out for the Amra Thetys series and now I’m working through a bunch of physical books I just picked up. I’m starting with When The Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi and I’ll probably pick up Royal Gambit by Daniel O’Malley after I finish that (it’s the latest book following The Rook storyline.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I have yet to read Goblin Quest, but I do really like that author. His Liberiomancer series is really good.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago

It starts out pretty light too, and I like how there’s some good deepening of the commentary of the society too.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like we’ll get book 8 around November-ish.

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