Naked mole rats are considered an example of a truly "eusocial" mammal analogue to ants. More evidence for the idea that social behavior/societal grouping, once established in a species, characterizes it more potently than just about anything else in its genetic history. Chimps might be our closest genetic relatives, but the way we live and think is probably much more similar to these guys.

my theory is that one of humor's main uses is as a way to compartmentalize things like horror and sorrow, and if you spend a lot of time becoming acutely aware of how much misery there is out there your sense of humor gets a lot of practice to compensate

EDIT: long way to say we are a little twisted around here, a bunch of jokers even, clowns who find the prospect of doing crime...humorous

If I wanted to think I wouldn't be posting

It isn't a real walkthrough if the first line isn't an ASCII art version of the game's logo

Yeah the real issue in a way is that there's just so much evidence of evolution happening that it's hard to find a single shared pattern to study

Look at least I think all the age groups can agree that the GBA SP was a masterpiece of tech, look at that beautiful folding, backlit, rechargable marvel

Ohhhhhhhhh shiiittttttt thanks for that

I've been waiting to play this for when it is comes out of early access but every screenshot makes me want to break the seal and try it out early

It's why I see Noid as a long Nietzsche reference, down to fascists cynically adopting his own "hardcore aesthetic." He calls Dolores and Humanism "part of a long term strategy" in a way that mirrors what Nietzsche wrote about slave/master morality too iirc, good stuff.

I vibed so hard with the stuff Noid had to say about Dolores Dei, sorry ZA/UM but the Hardcore Aesthetic is NOT JUST DRUGS (only mostly)

nexus mods withers be like

The blunt rotation always has one of them it's true

Man why do libertarians have to have a modicum of relevance and senatorial presence in America, they could just be like the political equivalent of village idiots who delight us with their harmless stupidity

Understand that zoologists, especially in the field, spend a lot of time very bored, and that's a recipe for making the dumbest dirtbaggiest jokes you can. What starts as "that bird looks like it's got a dick on its head dude" later becomes in scientific literature "phallocephalus"

If you've ever heard of the classic mating dynamic of "males who creep into the harem to mate while the alpha isn't looking," you have probably heard of them described as "sneaky males." This is a change from the original designation the field biologists who first studied this behavior gave it, "sneaky fuckers"

My friend who worked in a civil war museum had the best answer for whenever hogs would try to engage him about this in public, which was to effect a very tough guy posture and say "I don't believe in participation awards for losers"

Sometimes ants can't smell ants either and you get supercolonies

is parenting like that saying about politics where the people best suited for it want nothing to do with it?

Unto Others has a great section about this. In a bunch of studied tribes who live generally pre-industrial lifestyles, the anthropologists were interested in how they "organize" big projects like building a house, and when they watched them, wondered what made them so willing to just do it.

Long story short, they saw how the kids watched them and subsequently "played" at doing things like building houses, carrying things together, etc. They essentially concluded that the "work" they did was understood more like play--that without any coercion to labor beyond meeting their needs, they were surprisingly eager to do that boring stuff because they made it into the day's activity rather than grinding "work."

TL;DR unalienated labor schniff and so on

I've been rescuing stray dogs and cats my whole life without provocation, caring for animals is just a thing we humans with our constantly active empathetic and social instincts do. I'm also not saying those of you who don't "get" it aren't empathetic or social but you must be lying if you can't at least intellectually understand why people would enjoy it.

Edited to say that I do agree that there are def some hateful freaks out there who only like animals because animals don't talk back, but when my cat puts his little warm body in the crook of my arm I'm not thinking "wow you are so much more worthy of my love than a human being"