My local solar steam generator was shut down years ago as it was no longer worth testing direct reflector material anymore — even if they had gotten perfect reflectivity they couldn’t compete with photovoltaics anymore

Yep, a very pretty fish

The other comment is correct. The fact that pemmican lasts for a long while means it doesn’t change over time. Pemmican that has just been set in the fridge tastes the same as three end of the same batch in 2 weeks time

Of course the 2% contributor has been addressed, personal care products now aren’t allowed to have plastic “abrasives”, which is a good change anyway as plastic is useless for improving scrubbing

No other sources have had any work done to mitigate the problem

Feigned is such an uncommon word I’m not surprised to see it spelt like that. I’m all for fixing English spelling, it really is a mess of broken rules

Also I have a new favourite fish to eat — wrasse (pronounced rass)

They’re terrible if frozen, but really tasty fresh

That’s odd, it’s not a story about religion, it’s about Brian who’s a very naughty boy

It’s nice to see humans and bonobos in the same sentence like that. Usually we only get compared to our other close related animal, the warlike chimpanzees

Ten and a half kilos. Fatso

My local butcher offers offal rich minced meat, I should keep a kilo in the freezer for every now and then

Indeed we can, I only thrive as a hyper carnivore, as I’m allergic to grass (including the food grains and bamboo clothing) and intolerant of so many plants.

I think the only plants I can eat with no ill effects are most of the fruits

My ancestors were all northern European, the most meat eating people for the longest after the plains amerindians and Inuit

You know what I meant, the last glacial maximum, I understand it’s an ice age because there’s ice at both poles, but we’re very close to an interglacial, especially with our efforts to fuck up the environment

We lived upon glaciers last ice age (except for tropical people and probably those in the southern hemisphere) if we weren’t hyper carnivores then we couldn’t have lived in Europe, we couldn’t have crossed to the Americas. We ate animals that could eat the plants that could grow on the ice and the mountain tops poking through the glaciers, there was no fruit, no grain, no root vegetables, no beans, no cruciforms. There hasn’t been enough time since then for us to become herbivores, though we inherited much ability to eat many plants from the herbivorous apes we evolved from

They did that with guinea pigs in testing for vitamin C content in food (if the rodents got scurvy, the food had no acerbic effect)

Unfortunately when they were fed beef they starved, so beef was recorded as “not tested” USDA still records beef as "not tested, presumed zero)

I have eaten only beef (every day), eggs (a dozen two weeks in 5), yoghurt (Greek style) (1kg monthly at most), fish (twice a year on holidays at the beach), wine (three occasions in four weeks) and occasionally beer (a couple of litres once a month) for 3 years - none of which are recognised as having vitamin C. Scurvy sets in in a month or so without vitamin C, and kills a few weeks after untreated symptoms, so were my foods actually devoid of the vitamin I would be years dead. I guess I’m a better guinea pig than a guinea pig is for acerbic testing.

There are millions of people who would disagree.

It seems to me that anyone whose ancestors were in Europe during the last ice age is well adapted to an entirely carnivorous diet because we’ve only had 10k years to have winter access to plant based food, which isn’t enough time to adapt to a plant based diet, let alone to lose the diet that we conquered the world with

Vegans do badly without supplements, most carnivore diet followers don’t take any supplements other than salt, and many don’t take salt.

How does your model of metabolism deal with living on a glacier?

They had to get rid of the credit, the text was collateral cropping

I live in (not tropical) Australia, so there are practically no animals that are dangerous (camels and big roos might do you harm if you got them at speed in a car)

No lions, tigers, wolves, or bears here. No hippos, no elephants

We have crocodiles way up north, but even they won’t go after you if you stay out of the water

Spiders, octopuses, jellyfish and snakes:

Harmful spiders are redbacks (which are the same spider as black widows) and Sydney funnelwebs, neither of which chase you or seek your shoes (do check under the dunny seat for redbacks though, but it’s not an issue in indoor toilets). Don’t dig up web lined holes with your hands and you won’t be bitten by a funnelwebs

The blue ringed octopus is the only dangerous octopus and it tries to keep out of your way. If it is trapped in a small tidal pool don’t pick it up and you won’t be envenomated

Jellyfish - don’t swim in the ocean where there are signs telling you not to swim in the ocean. Box jellies and irukandji are regional and seasonal and the beaches they threaten are well signposted (that’s also in the tropics and just south of the tropics)

Snakes - Australian snakes aren’t dangerous. They are highly venomous but they don’t want to risk tangling with humans; humans eat them, and have for 40,000 years (that’s 4 times longer than humans have had bread). Give them room and they’ll move off. They pretty much won’t bite unless you corner them, try to catch them, or step on them.

In most of Australia you could sleep unprotected, with your food in an esky at your feet

Australian parrots are big on getting hammered on fermenting fruit

BODMAS or BOMDAS in Australia since we call ordinals ordinals

Brackets have pretty much always been needed to disambiguate precedence between addition and subtraction (which is really all addition) and between multiplication and division

Australia and the US have a reciprocal agreement which makes it so any Australian who wants to emigrate to the US can, and quite a few Americans can easily move to Australia. On the America to Australia side it is always oversubscribed, so it’s moderately hard to get to Australia. I wonder if timing the application is important.

The sensor is no guarantee. Quite a few low carb dieters use constant glucose monitors (CGMs) to identify which foods they should avoid