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cookerg t1_jdqfc5l wrote
Two reasons. Either they offer some benefit, or they cause no harm.
My mom had dark brown eyes. My dad had light brown eyes and siblings with blue or green eyes. I have brown eyes, my wife has green eyes.
We have a kid with brown eyes and one with blue eyes.
So...I inherited brown from my mom, and my dad must have been a carrier for blue and passed that on to me. It was recessive, but did neither me nor my dad any harm. My wife must have blue and green, with blue being recessive. It caused her no harm.
One kid inherited brown from me, which was dominant over whatever my wife gave her. The other must have inherited recessive blue from both of us. It has caused him no harm. His child has blue eyes.
So recessive blue has passed from one of my dad's parents down to my son and grandson, even though my dad and l had brown eyes, because there was no reason for it to die out - it caused no harm.
cookerg t1_jcsf6wl wrote
Reply to comment by firefistus in May 18th, 1980— this person casually jet skiing with St. Helens erupting behind them by happyleads
It's a slalom ski, with one foot behind the other. Much more nimble for zipping around buoys, because you can turn the ski using both legs. In this picture he is way outside the wake to the starboard side of the boat and is starting to cut back towards the centre.
cookerg t1_jcsek4q wrote
Reply to comment by BluestreakBTHR in May 18th, 1980— this person casually jet skiing with St. Helens erupting behind them by happyleads
He's not riding the wake. He is towed by a rope and has swung wide, way outside the wake.
cookerg t1_jco04gm wrote
Reply to comment by stonabus in May 18th, 1980— this person casually jet skiing with St. Helens erupting behind them by happyleads
There was Sully's plane....
cookerg t1_jcnzpjh wrote
Reply to comment by davidmason2332 in May 18th, 1980— this person casually jet skiing with St. Helens erupting behind them by happyleads
He has swung wide, outside the wake. You can see the skier's own wake coming from the right, and the boats wake would also be to the right.
cookerg t1_jbg7no0 wrote
Reply to [image] Take it by suddenly_space_jam
What if it's a great dump? Skip a step!
cookerg t1_jas8hsd wrote
Reply to comment by LeePhilips in When a river floods after a rainstorm, does it flow slower or faster? by Chiraqiian
:)
Seriously though, in normal conditions there isn't much water in the normal river bed that is standing fairly still, although of course there is some.
In flood conditions, in broad flood plains, there may be a vast expanse of water that is barely moving.
cookerg t1_jakljsh wrote
LOL, he's not a real person. People are so gullible!
cookerg t1_jaj1wu6 wrote
Probably both. Water flows slowest right next to the bottom or sides of the river and faster out in the central. deeper parts, farther from contact with the ground. So in a flooded river, the middle part is even deeper and therefore faster than usual, but the parts that have spread out onto the shallow flood plain move much slower than usual
cookerg t1_ja12jiq wrote
Reply to comment by YEETAWAYLOL in ELI5 What is cognitive dissonance? by dreamingonastar1
I think those examples, as you mentioned in the first example, the cognitive dissonance part, is the discomfort your brain feels in trying to either ignore, or somehow reconcile you conflicting beliefs or actions. If you're fully aware of the contradiction, and have decided to live with it, there's no dissonance, but if you're somehow still believing two conflicting things that are inconsistent, and haven't quite sorted it out, that's the "dissonance" part. The brain pain that creates.
cookerg t1_j9jp7bw wrote
Reply to Questionnare for school by NitrakCZ
There is no such place as "America", but it is often used as a short name for The United States of America. You should have offered North America and South America as options.
cookerg t1_j9ie7o8 wrote
Reply to comment by alien_clown_ninja in What are more accepted hypotheses that similarly explain the aspects of hominid evolution that the "pseudoscientific" aquatic ape theory does? by KEVLAR60442
So how did we get that endurance and running gait? However it evolved, humans are capable of covering longer distances in a day than most mammals, and do it voluntarily. And sled dogs might only be capable of keeping up, or beating us, because we selected them for it
cookerg t1_j9hwwz2 wrote
Reply to The harms of gentrification | The exclusion of poorer people from their own neighbourhoods is not just a social problem but a philosophical one by ADefiniteDescription
Oh, well!!!
I mean, if it harms people, of course, we all agree that's bad....
But if it also vexes philosophers, OMG!! - I mean, it's shocking that we've let it go on so long!!!!!!
cookerg t1_j7novem wrote
Reply to The often misused buzzword Paradigm originated in extremely popular and controversial philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn's work; he defined the term in two core ways: firstly as a disciplinary matrix (similar to the concept of a worldview) and secondly as an exemplar by thelivingphilosophy
It wasn't a new word, he just appropriated it. Before that it meant something like "a fine (or typical) example [of]". "He was a paradigm of the honourable man."
cookerg t1_j7g3ph3 wrote
Not if if your passion gets you killed way too soon.
cookerg t1_j6pk0iz wrote
Y? Should they?
cookerg t1_j6l6o1f wrote
Reply to A newly married couple by comcphee
There actually is a real condition of damaged penis called Peyronie's disease, and one cause of it is overly aggressive squeezing. So this joke has a grain of truth
cookerg t1_j6kzi67 wrote
Reply to comment by Far_Out_6and_2 in Anne Murray at the Troubadour “right in the middle of these guys who were totally all three sheets to the wind” 1973 by eaglemaxie
I think she's gay, but that doesn't always matter.
cookerg t1_j6kzcrh wrote
Reply to Anne Murray at the Troubadour “right in the middle of these guys who were totally all three sheets to the wind” 1973 by eaglemaxie
Anne said Nilsson was her favorite singer.
cookerg t1_j6ku89n wrote
Reply to comment by Pippin1505 in ELI5: What does it mean when a company buys back stocks and why is it frowned upon? by lilly_kilgore
If one or the other is better in different circumstances, then they are not *exactly the same*
cookerg t1_j6ik2h2 wrote
Well, they shouldn't have been so offensive.
cookerg t1_j6gylra wrote
I really wish that we could get rid of this silliness. If I as an English speaker say "Deutschland" or "ParEE" (Paris) people look at me strangely, but those are the actual names as spoken by the locals. At least with Beijing, the Chinese Government corrected how it was translated into English, to give a pronunciation that is closer to the actual Chinese pronunciation, than the old "Peking".
cookerg t1_j6gxh5o wrote
Reply to comment by Megalocerus in ELI5: How do they come up with names for countries in foreign languages? by bentobam
OP is asking why the names are different in different languages.
cookerg t1_j6e3dv0 wrote
Reply to Fingering techniques by ssplendadaddy
When I was briefly taught upright bass, they told me to use the ring finger to assist the pinky. But maybe that is just for kids?
cookerg t1_je7xc1b wrote
Reply to We have more female than male ancestors. by Intelligent-Bottle22
If a guy had children with 50 unrelated women and some of their offspring and descendents later mated, that guy is likely to be the ancestor of more people than most or all of the women