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[Avis-Mergulus]

Wot

I have a chin because my jaw is in it. And the function of my jaw is to chew stuff. Your 'scientists' might actually be reptilians in disguise.

[scrdest]

Wot

I have a chin because my jaw is in it. And the function of my jaw is to chew stuff. Your 'scientists' might actually be reptilians in disguise.

shit

he's onto us

[Antioch]

Wot

I have a chin because my jaw is in it.

Not completely true, the human chin extends far beyond what is needed for housing the chin and compared to other primates.

[Comrade P.]

Could be just one of nature's numerous fuck ups in human design.
This is my stance on every oddity in human body, or it is until I'm proven wrong.

[Criptfeind]

Wot

I have a chin because my jaw is in it.

Not completely true, the human chin extends far beyond what is needed for housing the chin and compared to other primates.

Doesn't that increase the jaw strength though? Perhaps humans need more jaw strength then other primates.

[Avis-Mergulus]

It seems to me that the correct question is "Why is the human jaw proportionally larger than other primates' jaws?" That's probably explained by our diet, right?

[Frumple]

It could be, or it could be comrade's take on it. Or something else entirely. The biggest mistake you can make in regards to evolutionary biology is to assume something came about for a reason, or that it came about because of the reason(s) that make(s) sense. _{this is also why most of the field, along with its friend evolutionary psychology, is complete and utter just-so bullshit}

Though I guess the actual explanation is that our predecessors with larger jaws managed to breed more. Whether that's because of the jaws themselves or because the jaws were piggybacking on something else or because the jaws were just not meaningfully selected against and got lucky or about a half dozen other things or some combination of any and/or all of the above is something it would take a time machine and another fifty to a hundred years or more of genetics research to actually figure out with any degree of notable accuracy.

[Yoink]

I have an overbite.

[Yoink]

perhaps sexual selection selected for larger chins?

I mean, my chin looks okay if I correct my overbite (which I do pretty much constantly).
But if I somehow get distracted my chin defaults to being pathetic. Also crooked. It makes me sad.

[Rolan7]

Is that a thing?  The fratboys always chilled or even freezered their liquor.  Of course it was cheap, absurdly harsh liquor that you don't want to taste at all.

I still put my cheap liquor in the freezer to take the initial edge off.  Probably different for those top-shelf liquors that are naturally smooth and have actual flavor you might want to taste.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

Late to the party, but I've seen that perpetual motion design. Pretty much every single person who makes a design like that doesn't understand osmosis and reverse osmosis.

Reverse osmosis takes up pressure. It's not a magic filter. Any "free" energy is just the energy that was put in to filter the fluid.

[Putnam]

every single person who makes any perpetual motion design doesn't understand some part of the systems with which they are working

[Rolan7]

To be fair, capillary action is freakin weird.  Of course it makes sense eventually, uh
I assume

Yeah I still don't quite follow, except that the action only happens to a limited extent which keeps things in accord with the entropy's inevitable victory over all things.

[Sheb]

So, in the States, its apparently customary to keep referring to people by their former title, at least for government officials (See everyone calling Hillary "Madam Secretary"). What are the rules for which title to use? The highest one (No one refers to Hillary as "Madam Senator")? What defines the precedence if someone was, say, a Governor and a Senator?

Also, how far down does this practice go? I expect you won't see someone being called "Mister Water Commissioner" for the rest of his life he he was elected once.

[sprinkled chariot]

How much u.s politics depend on president?
If theoretical senate is mostly republican and goes lol no mr president,
how much will it affect him?
What is the function of supreme court?