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But the beeps hit me right in the anxiety nerve.
I feel like bolting up and apologizing while simultaneously putting an end to whatever to stop the beeping. But the feeling only lasts a couple seconds.
I should get a pot liscence.
You need a necklace to go with it.
what
it's bread
*hugs*
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In my experience, both parties split that sort of thing; man pays half the time, woman pays half the time.
I don't see any reason for either person to bear the bigger burden in dating when there's enough other things to worry about.
@Madcaddy
I can't seem to find what you are talking about. I found the websites for each, but don't really know how to interpret them in any sort of context as I am entirely unfamiliar with horse breeding.
I can post things like what I did, i.e. population genetics studies of horse breeds, but I am not sure how to get my hands on or interpret horse breed data.
My point is, in an evolutionary context "weakening bloodlines" or whatever you were talking about (specific to horses) is a well-known phenomena of inbred stocks, as well as stocks that have small effective population sizes (both of which apply to thoroughbred horses).
That is, as you limit the amount of incoming new genetic material, and consistently select for certain traits over others (speed etc), as well as select for uniformity, you get strange phenotypic effects. The general evolutionary answer is "inbreeding depression", that is, a reduced level of phenotypic something due to lots of different effects, most usually due to dangerous or deleterious homozygote increases (i.e. having the same recessive allele from both parents), coupled with less "heterozygote advantage" where the dangerous allelle is "silenced" by being grouped with a positive dominant allele.
As I haven't really studied horses (as mentioned, I hate them), this is my educated guess as to what is happening in modern thoroughbreds, and some research seems to back that up, but other research disagrees.
The important thing, and what I want you to learn from this is that whatever the fuck is happening in horses currently is most likely not Darwinian evolution in the classical sense (i.e. through natural selection) for two reasons.
One- we are doing the selecting, i.e. by definition not natural (although this is a philosophical answer) and
Two- Natural selection kind of works at cross-purposes with regards to inbreeding depression. Ideally natural selection would remove deleterious alleles from the gene pool each generation, but in forced inbred lines, this doesn't happen, and even if it did, natural selection can't remove 100% of deleterious alleles ever.
A lot of this is talking out of my ass because I know shit about horse breeding, but maybe you can fill in where I don't know. This is mostly based on my limited knowledge of population genetics, but interestingly the wiki page for inbreeding depression has pictures of horses, so I feel more validated.
This kind of got away from your original point, but that's alright because your point was mostly joking, but this is what happens when you distract an evolutionary biologist with the "D" word.
Surely this is a sign from the universe that I should charge a new living room furniture set to it immediately.
I didn't run any further. I still did 2 miles. But I MOP's "Ante Up" on repeat and went as hard as I could, and arm curled as hard as I could, and crunched until I couldn't anymore.
A little exhausted but I feel that I did the right thing. I will have to do pushups and squats and stuff tomorrow.
(i read their book this semester and it melted my brain)
This is the nice thing about being married, I just use her money all the time.
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sometimes it is nice to treat your partner to a dinner, but sometimes you're low on funds so you dutch it up
the system works!
i like being gregarious though, so i usually pay for people when i am able
WHO ARE YOU FUCKING
I don't have a bike either!
So I guess I'm stuck with pilates and yoga (not that I'm stuck with that really because I love pilates and yoga)
If not that, kettlebell work out vids (any weight will work).
I think you mentioned punching a bag. Which is probably the best option.
It's just the senior week formal dance/concert thing, kind of the college equivalent to prom I guess!
Sarks, is she really like that?
YOU. WHO ELSE!?
I understood some of these words.
So quick question, can we breed out all the deleterious alleles, then start breeding for the desired traits (i.e. speed)?
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I am running two experiments now yay
i need an adult
Time to steal their ideas for my own.
Like CCGs? Check my CCG's Thread in CF and help me playtest it!
No payments until 2015? What a savings!
Half the bread is gone because of an air pocket while baking. I cannot put PB&J on aiiirrrrrrr
Her beautiful what?
He will not answer that out of respect for our relationship!
he is totally going to answer that
Hmm, yeah maybe. I have dangly earrings on which you can't really see in that picture, but you're supposed to do one or the other. Too much jewelry is TRASHY.
No, I mean like lying on your back and moving your legs like your riding a bicycle.
For reference:
Current Playthroughs: Neverwinter Closed Beta|Let's Build! Sim City
Thanks for ruining the joke.
Dick.
I'm not a dick! Dick.
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Something silver or silver-plated.
Oh, yeah I can totally do that once the muscle I pulled in my lower back heals (I am just FUCKING my body up)
There's no "system" IMO. Everyone does what works in there circumstance and that's ok!
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I am baking a chicken breast.
Which is almost as impressive as two experiments...
I feel like I should shake your hand and pay you for your service to science.
So Paypal, do you take VISA?
Double post
yeah sort of.
The thing to understand is everything I was saying comes from population genetics models which assume a weird 1:1 ratio between genes and fitness/phenotype, as well as reducing everything for sake of simplicity to single alleles in a dominant/recessive scenario.
(I can't count how many times population genetics stuff starts with "assume a haploid non sexually reproducing population"....which is the opposite of basically every system)
But anyway to do so would require a LOT of in depth genotyping of every individual and a lot more knowledge of how each allele in question contributes to fitness, quantiatively, which is just info we don't have.
Its usually easier just to exploit hybrid vigor, which is what I think most breeders do.
(Basically bring in strong alleles to cover up the weak ones)
This is why we all need sexy cyborg bodies.