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Thin-Rip-3686 t1_jegjed3 wrote

A dog will never be able to gain half your stuff.

A dog will never bear false witness against you.

A dog will be thrilled with the cheapest thing on the menu, at the cheapest place you can think of.

A dog will guard you when burglars break in and risk his or her life to protect yours.

A dog doesn’t care who you sleep with, so long as they can watch.

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Thin-Rip-3686 t1_jdr6ejt wrote

You forget the importance of percentage of overall mass. It’s probably more like the race performance difference of two identical cars, one with 3% more fuel in the tank, versus one with 3% more overall weight.

Little effects like this can produce outsized results or no change in results, but the “sized” result is way less than 2%.

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Thin-Rip-3686 t1_jdqup8u wrote

There’s only about a 3% difference in payload mass between the two.

Although it’s also been theorized that the lion’s share of the difference is because female embryos spontaneously die at a higher rate, there’s also the theory that eggs and sperm communicate with chemical messengers and eggs may prefer one sperm to another.

This set of preferences as well as the distribution of X vs. Y sperm also correlates to both parents’ stress and methylation levels- an easy life so far means creating males is better because if successful they’ll make more babies of their own, whereas a hard life so far means creating females is better because their success is a safer bet, even if they can’t make as many babies.

That logic may be backwards, or even reversed between sperm and egg.

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Thin-Rip-3686 t1_j23sz0h wrote

I love that. Issued by the US House.

“Hey Bruh, is that the new iPhone?”

“Nah, it’s just a 12. Issued by Apple.”

“I useda have a droid, issued by Samsung.”

“What do you have now?”

“It broke so now I have this cheap POS by some Chinese-owned off brand”. “US House”.

“Bruh, that sucks! I hear you can’t even get TikTok on those!”

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Thin-Rip-3686 t1_iwwa3i6 wrote

Not around a whole lot of kids, are you? Some of us are saddled with picky eaters, and it’s not like juvenile picky eaters refuse to eat anything but kale and uncooked turnip greens. Whole wheat pasta in his Mac and cheese is a bridge too far with this kid, and I know he’s nowhere near as bad as some.

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Thin-Rip-3686 t1_iwlwfbu wrote

Doctor does not work that way. Go buy miralax and go use that, she said. In the end it took three or four different classes of laxatives, including the suppository, which I’ve never used on myself before, let alone a child.

The suppository went in, and no more than 3 seconds later the toilet was too full to flush.

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Thin-Rip-3686 t1_iwlhjpo wrote

My little boy had this. His refusal to eat anything with fiber was key to this problem.

And it’s not “loses control” as in everything comes out without warning, it’s a steady drip drip while he walks around carrying a rock hard tennis ball sized turd jammed up there.

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