It seems to me that the studying is focusing on the extent to which the life of mothers affects the life of children, particularly looking at multiple stages of life including menopause whereupon the mothers of mothers can directly contribute. It isn’t really about K vs. R, but rather understanding that primate mammals are already type K (investing more heavily in fewer offspring) what the effects of self-preservation on the mother are.

Regarding the comment on “weird conservative ‘women are for breeding’ undertones”

That seems like a strangely anthropocentric viewpoint. For most primates other than humans, breeding and childrearing are dominated by the females because the successful strategy for males is often to try to impregnate as many females as possible, and the successful strategy for females is often to try to have sex with as many males as possible to help reduce the chances of infanticide.

It was with the homo sapiens larger brain and the greater negative effect on females that cooperative reproduction strategies became particularly important.

I think this speaks to a specific thing that can be transferred to human beings. We often focus on the sacrifice for children which is true and real, but the study shows that parents need to take care of themselves because having your parents alive has an impact on you beyond your weaning stage. I think that even though this study is about primates, that’s a truth that also applies to humans.

The article looks at females because it’s using datasets from primates, but I also believe this would apply to some degree to both parents in human populations. There is data supporting the fact that the 2-parent household is more ideal than a single parent household (and a household with no surviving parents would be worse than that, even after the weaning period is over for a variety of reasons)

Primate societies would likely help tribemates who are not direct kin the same as humans do, but both primate societies and human societies see people helping others less than their direct kin. There’s studies showing that stepparents are not the same as parents statistically in this regard.

I don’t think that would be useful in the context of what the study was trying to understand, which is the effect of female survival on children of that female.

The question was about the biological mother, which can be tracked because the mother gives birth. If the biological mother dies but another female continues to behave in such a way to nurture the child, then that is relevant to the analysis only insofar as the primate society took care of the child anyway which would reduce the impact of losing the mother.

With respect to the father potentially taking on a maternal role, I don’t think the structure of many primate societies is conducive to such research, because primates are typically not monogamous. As a result, neither the researchers nor the primate fathers know who is the father of which baby, and so if a female presenting male were to “take a baby under its wing” after the death of a mother, I would expect that to be similar to a female presenting male who is not the father of the baby and so fit under the data set of death of a mother and just have the effect of flattening out the effects of the measurement.

It’s subtle, but they changed a lot of minor things, I think maybe because it’s using a different UI framework. Scrolling is worse (the scroll bar acts nuts and the scroll wheel usually doesn’t work very well, I these days tend to use the keyboard to scroll the middle plane) and the frame on the right doesn’t reset between stories.

It’s little things, but it makes reading through the days news a bit tougher.

Glad I’m not the only one thinking that…

I live by nextcloud news, but I don’t like the new interface.

The other nice thing is it syncs with apps on every platform.

Imo the future is federated and self-hosted. Maybe not for everyone, but for me.

I’ve got a 2013 MotoX, and it’s been many a moon, but I’m pretty sure I was able to get LineageOS onto it. It’s a small, thin phone with voice recognition built in. Quite distinct looking from any Moto Gs we’ve bought. Took Motorola forever to port Android M to it, and then the port was actually really shitty, so it was nice to eventually find a port.

I think I found the good version on xda. OTOH, I don’t think it was a cdma phone. I think the one I had supported LTE

I’m running nova, and the thing that sets it apart from rootless (as I recall, it’s been a while) is that you can set up whatever search engine for the search bar you want. I don’t use google, I only use my own searx instance on brave, and nova let me set everything up exactly the way I wanted it. Most other launchers assume you want google, and I think they assume you want chrome too.

I always debloat my phone, the difference is too massive to ignore.

My last 2 phones were a Galaxy S9 and a Galaxy S10, and I really found the samsungs to be insufferable at first, but with a strong debloat removing a bunch of ‘features’ nobody asked for and redundant apps, as well as changing the launcher (I use novalauncher, but rootless is also great and also FOSS) had a notable effect on the feel of the phone. I recall that some of the “features” specifically slow down responsiveness to button pushes because for example it ends up waiting on a home button press to see if you’re going to do a double or triple press.

If you mess it up too much, a factory restore will undo everything you did anyway, so don’t worry too much about it.

I’ve used the same technique on a number of different phones as well. My dad loves his LG phones, but it comes with a bunch of stuff he didn’t want, so we were able to disable it. His latest phones are rugged china phones, and he swears by them, especially once we were able to get rid of a bunch of stuff they added that you really don’t need.

ITSU GOJIRA!!!

The particularly hilarious part of this is that moments later Hasbro ditched Larian.

whooooooooooooooo

Slime is one of my favorite isekai. Even with all the genocide it’s just too wholesome.

It’s really frustrating that people who don’t understand this experiment have insanely taken into assume that a magic particle spell understands if a human being is watching or not.

There’s definitely something to be said for trying to get it mostly correct the first time.

It’s pretty funny that most of the top games are like 10 years old or more.

One huge reason why I have been such an advocate for hydroelectric over anything else. Most of the day sun isn’t out in winter, but you still need electricity, especially if you are planning to migrate your home heating to electric at a large scale.

Honestly, This makes a lot of sense. Intuitively it seemed strange to me for us to just happen to be in a universe that’s barely older than the first set of stars out there, when there’s so much matter in the universe that would have needed to have formed over billions of years in the heart of stars, which would then reach the end of their life cycle and nova – that all this happens to line up awfully closely, especially with all the debris from those dead stars would need to scatter over light years of distance.

Incredibly, in spite of the fact that I’ve been paying for 25 years, I very rarely go for any of the alternative endings, other than the developer ending if you beat lavos the first time.

You know, I know it’s a joke, but if you think about it there’s probably a lot of behavioral instincts that we rely on go surprisingly far back in the evolutionary chain.