The adult consequences of childhood bullying (bad).
Privately built spacecraft successfully lands on the Moon. It carries a bunch of devices, some from NASA and some from private entities, supposed to prepare the way for a future human base.
Millions of sardines beach themselves on a Philippine island that is poor enough for people to excitedly scoop them up in baskets to eat or sell.
The Sprint/T-Mobile merger was criticized as anti-competitive, but creating a powerful entity capable of competing with AT&T and Verizon seems to have reduced prices and improved service. Of course it is possible that the main driver of falling prices is just better technology and this merger had nothing to do with it, but anyway the dire consequences predicted by some anti-trust advocates have not come to pass.
A claim that Neanderthals used an adhesive made with bitumen and ochre to attach stone tools to handles. The significance is that using adhesive to attach two things together to make a tool has long been considered an important step in human cognitive development.
Study of genomes from the Roman period suggests that under the empire about 8 percent of people lived in a different region than their recent ancestors.
New archaeological discoveries in Bronze Age Oman.
Today in conspiracy theories, a pro-Russian source says dissident Alexei Navalny was killed by the Covid vaccine.
What is a species? “A 2021 survey found that practicing biologists used 16 different approaches to categorizing species. Any two of the scientists picked at random were overwhelmingly likely to use different ones.” As one biologist says, “Everyone uses the term, but no one knows what it is.” (NY Times) My readers know that I agree with Charles Darwin, who argued that the word has no special meaning: “I look at the term species as one arbitrarily given for the sake of convenience to a set of individuals closely resembling each other.”
One of the founders of Moms for Liberty is in hot water after her husband, accused of sexual assault, defended himself by saying that his accuser had been part of a consensual threesome with him and his wife. An advocate for "Don't Say Gay" bills, Bridget Ziegler was greeted at a recent school board meeting with signs reading "Don't Say Threesome."
Lovely Merovingian gold ring found in Denmark.
A claim that a Neolithic stone wall more than a mile long has been found on the floor of the Baltic Sea.
Urban children in 18th- and 19th-century Britain suffered from seasonal vitamin D deficiency, which you can read from their teeth. I have mentioned here before that many 19th-century reformers were obsessed with getting clean milk to slum dwellers, and that Louis Pasteur got famous because his process made that possible. The stains in their teeth show you why there was so much concern.
In the US syphilis seemed on the path to extinction back in 2000, but since then it has come roaring back. This article blames collapsing public health infrastructure but I have to think it declined in the first place because of fear of AIDS and has rebounded as that fear has declined.
Two mass graves of plague victims excavated in Germany, probably date to the 1600s.
Andrei Morozov, the LPR volunteer and then Russian solider known as Murz, seems to have committed suicide. In his final post he said he was suffering from shell shock. Before exiting he posted what he said were the official Russian numbers on their losses losses during the capture of Avdiivka: 16,000 men and 300 armored vehicles. The war he helped to launch has grown into an all-consuming monster.
From a long Scott Siskind post responding to the comments on his recent post about polyamory, I derive this graph comparing the frequency of sex for monogamous and poly people. Statistically speaking, those lines are pretty close to identical. (Of course that might just mean that monogamous and poly people lie the same amount.)
ReplyDeleteIf you read the vertical axis, we discover the graph is fairly worthless, as it's tracking sex with the "primary partner only".
Given that detail, it's not remotely surprising that the numbers are similar - why would you have more or less sex with your "primary" partner just because you also have one or more additional partners?
It's not like the average person is having sex at the limits of how frequently it is possible for them to do so - thus, polyamorous individuals aren't somehow "running out of time" or otherwise not being able to have as much sex with their primary partner as they otherwise would, because they're having to devote time / attention to other partners as well.
And even if "running out of time" were happening, why would we see a reduction with primary partners, rather than with ancillary ones? If anybody was going to be having less sex as a result of competition for time / attention, it'd be them, no?
Of course, there's a considerable bias against even that happening, given the self-selecting nature of polyamory. Most people who have an interest in it already have successful relationships and know that such things require a deep investment to maintain in a healthy state - and thus they are hesitant to attempt to complicate matters by taking on another partner if they at all feel they lack the time / resources / etc to properly invest in another partner.
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Even putting all of that aside, we're only looking at the first 21 months of relationships - the point when people are still really getting to know each other, no matter what kind of relationship. I wouldn't expect numbers to be radically different.
More than that, though - how do they measure "length of relationship", I wonder? It virtually NEVER happens that someone takes on two new partners at the same time - they build one relationship, and then another one later on. Which starting point do they use? And how to they reconcile the fact that two partners in the same polycule might respond to the same questions vastly differently, based on who the "primary" partners are and when ancillary partners were included?
Andrei Morozov, the LPR volunteer and then Russian solider known as Murz, seems to have committed suicide. In his final post he said he was suffering from shell shock. Before exiting he posted what he said were the official Russian numbers on their losses losses during the capture of Avdiivka: 16,000 men and 300 armored vehicles. The war he helped to launch has grown into an all-consuming monster.
ReplyDeleteIt's continually amazing to me that every time the Russians directly observe the naked corruption of their military and government causing them to suffer and die needlessly, their only response is to write a concerned letter - as if it was all just some simple mistake, rather than inflicted upon them intentionally by a cynical government that simply doesn't give a damn if they die horrifically for no good reason.
It's like being a follower of Jim Jones, and writing him a letter complaining about how the Kool-Aid was somehow accidentally laced with potassium cyanide, and could they please get this problem fixed?