Arctic_monkey

@Arctic_monkey@leminal.space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh nooooooo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reclusiveness selection argument makes sense, but why intelligence? Brains are crazy metabolically expensive, and I can’t see why a smart reclusive spider would survive humans any better than a merely reclusive one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a fan of insurance companies, but the dental/medical insurance split makes sense. Insurance is fundamentally a risk hedging game. It matters what the risks are. Most medical conditions will only happen to a small percentage of people, so we can all put money into a pool and pay out to the unlucky people who, for example, get cancer. Almost everyone needs some dental work eventually, everyone’s teeth wear down. Dental insurance is more like a savings plan than a gamble on rare outcomes. It doesn’t make sense to pool those risks together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, how is “not equal to” a Nazi symbol?