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[–] [email protected] 98 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  1. Build woman beating robot
  2. Harvest tears from beatings
  3. Expose violent husbands to harvested tears. Domestic Abuse Abolished 👍
[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

This shouldn’t have made me laugh. But alas…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I don't know if tears of joy or sadness will work, but maybe just try those before we build an army of woman pummeling robots? Surely synthetic tears are an option.

All I am saying is we don't need to go right to having robots take our jobs on this one.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You know what we should study? What happens when you sniff women's tears.

Uh, what did you say Steve?

I said sniffing women's tears! It'll be awesome!!

Steve, are you ok man?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

It definitely started as feet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nature has ways of self-regulating, but some of them are pretty dark.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Male aggression leads to a lot of messed up shit. But some stuff is funny. There is this species of hummingbirds where males develop a bright purple star shaped plumage around their face. About 25 percent of females develop these characteristics too. Because bluffing yourself out of male aggression, outweighed the pro's of camouflage against predators. The biologist said that people often ask how it influnenced fheir chances at mating, to which he replied with: "I've seen male hummingbirds try to mate with a stump, so I don't expect it to be much of a problem." Adding to this, is that if too many females develop a male phenotype, the signaling "I am terretorial, stay away or I'll attack" of the feathers loses it's meaning and thus its protection.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This 44 percents says a lot about scale of study and it's makes me uncomfortable that someone actually wanted to make people sniff women's tears for no reason at all

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Just because the reason isn't obvious doesn't mean it's not real. They probably had some indication of what to expect even before they started the experiment. That's where a lot of hypotheses come from in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

"for no reason at all"

Really? Those words alone say a lot about how dumb you are.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

"Your tears sustain my chill!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I smell a business opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

There was a New Wave band back in the 70s called Sniff and the Tears. I think they were ahead of their time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Me, making this my slack profile of the week:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I keep a bottle in the glove box.