And how did we connect that, and rule out other things?

Yeah, this place is a very

• Grape fucking

• Endless politics

• Meta memes/drama/shitposting

pick two kind of place

You’re not being creative enough. You could have a bowl/cup of grapes, and use that. Or maybe alternatively you could blend/mash them up, let them dry out a bit to stiffen up, then use that.

That’s based on species though, so it would overrepresent unlikely encounters.

That is fair, but also consider that an intelligent species isn’t going to be limited by chance encounters. I regularly eat bananas, but I don’t live in India. I regularly eat pineapples, but I don’t live in Costa Rica. Very little of my diet is comprised of food that is native to my area. As an intelligent species, we farm food en masse, ship it around the world, and plant things outside of their natural habitat.

I do wonder how that data compares with other mammals though. Is it just average, or is it significantly higher?

Purely speculating, I’d wager slightly above average as a result of the thing I said about omnivores being a precursor to becoming intelligent.

Potentially. But think of it this way, there are somewhere around 400,000 plant species out there.

https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/many-plants-world-scientists-may-now-answer/

Based on this list, something on the order of like 99.5% of plants are either not safe, or not useful/beneficial. If other species on our planet share a similar rate without complete overlap, then it’s practically a guarantee that there will be thousands of plants that are safe and useful for us but not for other species. That doesn’t feel particularly strange or unlikely. So even with a specialized diet, I don’t think the numbers would be much different.

It also could be the case that being scavenging omnivores is a strong precursor to becoming intelligent. If your species is on the rise in terms of intelligence, you’re probably using that to expand your food sources wide and far.

Would aliens actually be weirded out by this quality of humans?

I feel like any sufficiently intelligent species living on a planet will have some degree of biodiversity on said planet. And the chances of something being made to be a poison/deterrent for creatures other than the intelligent species is probably a large one, because it’s pretty hard for plants and animals to make a poison/deterrent that kills everything without also killing itself. So if there is a gap for itself, there is a gap for other life to coexist with the toxin. And that’s before accounting for the fact that something can be safe at low levels, provide benefits/stimulation/good feels at low levels, and toxic at high levels.

So I’d think it would be pretty natural for intelligent life to consume things that are harmful to huge swaths of other creatures.

Would assuredly be a step up in quality

“The Art of Defecation - How to turn your anatomy into a brown (f)art factory”

It could have an entire chapter just on fiber maxing:

https://i.imgur.com/zmtuVg1.png

Another could be on shit polishing with the mythbusters method.

The language certain politicians are using is plucked directly from the mouths of Goebbels’ and Himmler’s rotting corpses. How can they not see what lies ahead if they continue with this shit?

What’s even more infuriating is that when you try to point this out to others, they act like you’re insane/exaggerating.

I’m too lazy and incompetent at statistics to do the math, but survivorship bias is very much relevant here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Turns out, if you build something that isn’t a bunch of stones in an organized stack, it won’t last thousands of years like the organized stone stacks.

Sure, but would it be possible to artificially simulate a daylight cycle indoors, opposite of the outside one?

Sure, you wouldn’t be able to go outside very much, but you’d at least have your active hours in the coolest part of the day.

Add in a bit of of CRISPR to smooth out the rough edges, would it be enough then?

When everything’s a logic block, nothing will be

Reject tradition

Embrace scratch

Canceling out only a tiny bit puts you on an orbit similar to earth’s. You need to kill basically all of your momentum.

I knew something was up. We’re onto you /u/fossilesque

One thing to note, actually cooking something requires an application of heat over time. Instantaneous heat transfer will not cook, it will usually just burn.

Some people say you can use a nuke to cook a pizza if you put it in the right spot, but the same problem would apply.

Related, some guy did actually slap a chicken into being cooked. It was predictably disgusting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFhnnTWMgI

Yeah, I checked that off my bingo/drinking game as well

I know you’re joking, but if the U.S. does actually collapse, very few people on the planet will have the fortune of being unaware.

Predictably, it was a shit show. Trump was doing his normal routine of batshit crazy stupidity. Harris was level headed and sensible, minus the bit about the “most lethal army” and pro fracking stuff. It’s mind boggling to me that to think that it will sway votes. How could you possible look at these options and change your mind only after the debate? But at the same time I know it doesn’t matter, I know that there are still people who will somehow be swayed.

I wouldn’t mind having a linux tablet. But not at $700