Volvo

Yep, totally wrong. Humans have evolved a whole fucking lot in the last 500 generations. I know the standard liberal (and conservative!) line is that humans don’t evolve because that might imply group differences somewhere but the fact is human evolution has been shockingly swift because of all the challenges faced by our species over the past ~10,000 years.

Again, ideology causes you to believe just total clown shit.

Ventus

Really contrary to Amanda Marcotte’s frankly moronic view on prostitution and why men visit sex workers; this is from a woman on Reddit who works as a prostitute:

10-20% of time it’s sex, most of the time, it’s the client venting/crying to me about his life and how hard things are.

Amanda’s idea that it’s “all about power” runs counter to the facts if she’d bother to listen to any sex worker ever.

I’m not an emotional person in general, but a lot of women in relationships claim they want a man to open up to them, and to be vulnerable, but if you actually do that she doesn’t find you desirable anymore. It’s incredibly common. Nearly every man has had that experience before with a woman they are close to disdaining them after they open up a bit.

So that’s exactly why sex workers have less sex than you’d expect, and more of what the woman from Reddit experiences.

Spun Down

I failed.

As someone says in the comments, standard quick formatting a drive (especially on a spinning rust hard drive) doesn’t delete any data. It just says “this drive is now empty” but doesn’t do more than that.

I’ve recovered files for friends from formatted drives, without a single file being lost. It’s not even hard. Formatting a drive does nothing substantive. It’s like if you wrote on the outside of a full file cabinet “this cabinet is empty.”