The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVIII

[Farm Boy]

The only way I'm aware a store might balk at copying the key is if it has "DO NOT DUPLICATE" stamped on it. Then they might anyways. Or they might call the cops. If it has the stamp. But it should cost like two to four dollars. I mean, it's possible something unusual is going on, but that would be weird.

 

[The_J]

If it's a security/system key, then they also might just not be able to do it.

 

[Farm Boy]

I guess I don't know where he lives, but that's typically out of the expense interests of college slumlandlords. I guess unless he lives someplace really nice?

 

[sophie]

I was honestly considering that option for a bit, though I don't think I have the guts to ask him. I'd feel bad making him pay for something.

EDIT: My current solution is to tape a notecard over the lock whenever I go out, starting tomorrow. That should stop unnecessary locking. However, if I am locked out again, is a locksmith the only resource to turn to?

i forgot to mention last night: check the lease first to see if it has any stipulations about duplicating the keys. If not, you're in the clear.

 

[Mouthwash]

Why did humans evolve to be more tired after oversleeping? What sort of insane strategy is that? I don't care how confused my body is from being outside the ancestral environment, sleeping twelve hours should mean being able to get up afterward!

 

[sophie]

Why did humans evolve to be more tired after oversleeping? What sort of insane strategy is that? I don't care how confused my body is from being outside the ancestral environment, sleeping twelve hours should mean being able to get up afterward!

evolution isnt about adopting the best things for a species. its about retaining those attributes which arent so harmful to the species (in that specific time, climate, and environment) so as to prevent the individual from passing on its genes to the subsequent generation.

things which prevent the species from reproducing work their way out of the gene pool. everything else remains. hence vestigial organs

its not so much "survival of the fittest", as it is "survival of the fit enough"

 

[Mouthwash]

evolution isnt about adopting the best things for a species. its about retaining those attributes which arent so harmful to the species (in that specific time, climate, and environment) so as to prevent the individual from passing on its genes to the subsequent generation.

things which prevent the species from reproducing work their way out of the gene pool. everything else remains. hence vestigial organs

its not so much "survival of the fittest", as it is "survival of the fit enough"

I have been driven out of my territory by predators, and have been traveling all day. I find a reasonably safe area and, exhausted, sleep for twelve hours. Upon waking, I cannot get up.

Am I more or less likely to pass on my genes than those who can?

 

[sophie]

I have been driven out of my territory by predators, and have been traveling all day. I find a reasonably safe area and, exhausted, sleep for twelve hours. Upon waking, I cannot get up.

Am I more or less likely to pass on my genes than those who can?

humans are a social species. even if that were to happen to you, you have a community that will protect you.

 

[Mouthwash]

humans are a social species. even if that were to happen to you, you have a community that will protect you.

My group has been traveling with me, and there isn't much to eat around here.

(I'm not lawyering, this is exactly how prehistoric humans lived).

 

[sophie]

My group has been traveling with me, and there isn't much to eat around here.

(I'm not lawyering, this is exactly how prehistoric humans lived).

a) i doubt such a specific scenario would have happened often enough to have an effect on the species writ large

b) iirc pre-civilized humans didnt sleep in massive 8-9 hour chunks like we do today. such sleep cycles are fine when everybody basically lives in a castle within a castle. if anything it makes sense that post-oversleeping grogginess would arise as a means to ensure humans didnt spend such long spells sleeping and thereby expose themselves to greater risk

 

[Flying Pig]

I'm not sure how anybody would know anything with any surety about how prehistoric people slept. Certainly, the arguments that the Romans slept in two chunks with a break in the middle because they sometimes tell the time by 'second sleep' or 'first sleep' seem quite fragile.

 

[Kennigit]

mouthwash: did you make it to like 16 years old?

You made it old enough for biology to care

 

[Atticus]

I have been driven out of my territory by predators, and have been traveling all day. I find a reasonably safe area and, exhausted, sleep for twelve hours. Upon waking, I cannot get up.

Am I more or less likely to pass on my genes than those who can?

You can't get up because you're in the comfort of your home and have nothing you must do. If you were threatened by a beast or hunger, you could and would get up.

So it isn't unbebeficial to your genes. Unless this inability to get up is related to sexual selection...

 

[Joecoolyo]

I guess I don't know where he lives, but that's typically out of the expense interests of college slumlandlords. I guess unless he lives someplace really nice?

I wish. The lock on the main entrance to the building doesn't work and I'm surprised the door handle didn't fall off when I pushed the locked door in. I live in a dump.

i forgot to mention last night: check the lease first to see if it has any stipulations about duplicating the keys. If not, you're in the clear.

This I might actually do. I'll rummage around for the lease and see what it says about keys.

 

[Mouthwash]

a) i doubt such a specific scenario would have happened often enough to have an effect on the species writ large

Early humans migrated and scavenged for food. Our bipedalism, which is very efficient over long distances, is attributed to this. I think it would have been an incredibly common scenario.

b) iirc pre-civilized humans didnt sleep in massive 8-9 hour chunks like we do today. such sleep cycles are fine when everybody basically lives in a castle within a castle. if anything it makes sense that post-oversleeping grogginess would arise as a means to ensure humans didnt spend such long spells sleeping and thereby expose themselves to greater risk

Evolution doesn't plan ahead. The idea that it would 'punish' humans to get them to stop oversleeping is incredibly contrived and ridiculous.

If you don't know the answer, you don't have to keep arguing.

I'm not sure how anybody would know anything with any surety about how prehistoric people slept. Certainly, the arguments that the Romans slept in two chunks with a break in the middle because they sometimes tell the time by 'second sleep' or 'first sleep' seem quite fragile.

I don't think that humans ought to be locked into any particular sleep pattern, given our ancestral lifestyle. Romans are less certain.

 

[Flying Pig]

Owen is entirely right - evolution isn't all that good. Hence men have nipples.

 

[sophie]

Early humans migrated and scavenged for food. Our bipedalism, which is very efficient over long distances, is attributed to this. I think it would have been an incredibly common scenario.

migrated, sure. pushed to the point of exhaustion by pursuing predators who will destroy them if they stop even for a couple hours? not so much

Owen is entirely right - evolution isn't all that good. Hence men have nipples.

well more that evolution isnt great, merely good enough

 

[Takhisis]

Would be funnier if the participants actually had consistent avatars. I've always been disappointed that Owen abandoned Azula or whoever it was; it's how I still think of him.

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Question: Just right now, my goddamn roommates locked me out of my own apartment. I don't have a key since the realtor people only gave us two, I have no idea why. Considering I'm living here for only two more months I'm not going to pay to get another key.

Anyways, unlike normally I'm pretty sure my only roommate who is home was asleep. Which meant that I was locked outside for 30 minutes before he got my second call and third text.

If, thank god, he didn't answer and slept right through it. And I can't lockpick. And the property managers are closed today. What exactly are my options for getting back in? Could I go to the police and ask? Would the property managers answer their phone even though Google says their closed? I don't want this to happen again, although I feel living with these morons that it will.

Identify a window that doesn't latch so you can climb in should it be necessary.

I give my full support to this. Preferably the one with the least chances of your being shot by police.

Are you still outside, or back in?

That's the most important question of all.

Each roomate having is own key seems the normal solution.

Not in 'Murica.

its not so much "survival of the fittest", as it is "survival of the fit enough"

In Russia, that means the people with the strongest livers survive.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I give my full support to this. Preferably the one with the least chances of your being shot by police.

Police won't shoot you for climbing in a window. They will tell you to get down, and when you do you will be moving towards them. That's when they will shoot you.

 

[Hygro]

Owen is entirely right - evolution isn't all that good. Hence men have nipples.

But it provides more areas of stimulation, plus piercing opportunities. Evolution has been was thinking ahead.