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At this point, until we have a way to more effectively migrate the current subscribers of the books community on Lemmy, I’ve mostly figuring out backend stuff with some of the new features for PieFed like figuring out what the wiki and if we can recognize those who participate in the Bingo with a flair and other features. Some of that is information we’re waiting on from the admins that are setting this up.

We want to make sure that we don’t lose any other current community members in a transition.

If you eat a sausage or hotdog, it becomes a new sausage as it goes through you.

At least it wasn’t an Artax Meme.

Minneapolis and St Paul (Cross-River sister cities, St Paul is the State Capital) both have mayoral elections on November 4, 2025. The one you’ve been seeing mentioned more likely is the Minneapolis one where the DFL (State Democratic Party) endorsed a candidate for the first time in a bit and it was the challenger to the incumbent Democratic candidate, so it’s been in the news.

Probably not the mayor, the governor of the state was the VP candidate for Kamala Harris.

Welcome to the Princess Posse.

I’ve used kobos, nooks, and kindles. And I’m happy to answer questions.

I’m personally a fan of Kobo as it’s pretty easy to strip the DRM with a calibre plugin. (I also really like my kobo ereader)

My TBR list grew 3 sizes in the last month with books that came out or were on heavy discounts by authors I adore and read all their stuff right away.

I started with John Scalzi’s When the Moon Hits Your Eye.

I mainly use a combination of Hardcover and StoryGraph. I like the interface Of Hardcover better and its business model. They recently just added a bunch of developers and other people To help shore up some of their weakness especially in their book data. StoryGraph handles reading challenges better in fact, we have one therefore our Book Bingo.

As a fan of the series. It was fun.

She’s sooo good.

The ebook is an Amazon exclusive unfortunately. It used to be possible to convert with calibre, but Amazon closed that loophole unless you have a kindle floating around. They all got released in hardcover this year. Alternatively you could buy them on Amazon and then pirate them in a more accessible format.

The series is pretty good.

Welcome! Have you seen our Book Bingo? It just started May 1st.

We don’t know their relationship, could be something they’d already agreed upon; you know the old “Coldplay, Hotwife” situation.

In fact, hiccups are a really good comparison. I’d say everyone has had or will have hiccups at least once in their normal lifespan. For some people they may even get stuck with them for an extended time to the point one seeks medical intervention.

But they are adaptation from an amphibian ancestor of ours that needed them to be able to transition from breathing in water to breathing on land. We don’t benefit from them anymore, but they don’t negatively impact reproductive fitness so they stick around. (See: Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin)

You provided two great examples, the recurrent laryngeal nerve and vagus nerve as well as hiccups, eye colors, some anemias, like sickle-cell or iron deficiency are others. However, your misunderstanding about what evolutionary adaptation (or more accurately, natural selection) is doesn’t mean somebody else has to prove you wrong, just because you define something incorrectly.

And all I pointed out was that your description of evolution by natural selection was wrong, the natural selection process “doesn’t care” about the existence of things that don’t decrease reproductive fitness, so those features won’t be selected against. Things that may have been useful to an ancestor in a different body configuration but not us, may continue to exist, but that’s not an argument for its continued usefulness. So saying the fact a foreskin still exists therefore it must be useful isn’t supported by the way genetic evolution by natural selection works.

Sources aren’t even hard to find:

• “First, it’s important to recognize that not all of an organism’s features are due to adaptation. For instance, some non-adaptive, or even detrimental, gene variants may be on the same DNA strand as a beneficial variant. By hitching a ride on the same DNA strand as the useful variant, a non-adaptive gene can quickly spread throughout a population. In other words, just because a certain trait is there doesn’t necessarily mean it’s useful.” From: (https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/why-evolution-isnt-perfect)
• “But here’s where it gets interesting – some traits stick around even if they’re not particularly helpful. Why? Well, as long as a trait doesn’t actively harm an individual’s chances of survival and reproduction, it might just hang around in the genetic wardrobe.”

Two, if there’s a flap of skin attached to and covering a body part, and this flap appears on very nearly every single male ever, there’s likely a really good reason evolutionary biology brought it about.

I’m not saying this in support of circumcision, but that’s not at all how evolutionary adaptation works. We are full of parts that are no longer useful and are infact sometimes downright more risky to have just because they aren’t likely to negatively impact our ability to procreate.

I finished what’s out for the Amra Thetys series and now I’m working through a bunch of physical books I just picked up. I’m starting with When The Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi and I’ll probably pick up Royal Gambit by Daniel O’Malley after I finish that (it’s the latest book following The Rook storyline.