"out of the 550 species inhabiting Madeira, are so far deficient in wings that they cannot fly; and that of the twenty-nine endemic genera, no less than twenty-three genera have all their species in this condition!"
there you go
i don't think that's at all for the same reasons as with birds, though
i think in birds, flight is selected against, because it consumes a lot of resources. in beetles, flight is selected against because on small islands they'll just be caught by the wind and drift to sea, so that those who can't fly actually have better chances of survival"
"For during thousands of successive generations each individual beetle which flew least, either from its wings having been ever so little less perfectly developed or from indolent habit, will have had the best chance of surviving from not being blown out to sea; and, on the other hand, those beetles which most readily took to flight will oftenest have been blown to sea and thus have been destroyed."
we should claim the term "the good book" and refer to the origin when we use it
i so frequently find it useful to revisit that book
on that note, is it possible to suggest edits even when you have edit rights yourself? i would find that a really polite way to go, for stuff that is perhaps too big changes to just carry out
@DavidHedlund If the owner has a problem with it, he can just roll back. If the edit is significant, though, you can mention it in a comment and see if he gives you permission to edit his post.
@Borror0: for sure. i just thought it'd be a neat function, if you could suggest edits, perhaps only to the author, not to the rest of the editing community
Presentations are really fun to do. Editing them, though, sucks giant, sweaty donkey reproductive organs.
(I am also working on a big, important presentation, in another window and after that will be finishing card designs for a board game I created and have to have finished by Saturday.
I run an organization in which one of the purposes is to educate the general population about sex worker issues.
Since I'm also a trained peer counselor, I get to have some interesting and unique opportunities
in this case, I'm educating a room full of counselors on how to deal with sex workers who have experienced sexual trauma
and advising them on how to deal with knowing their client is a sex worker, how to overcome biases and how to help their client reach a state of normalcy for themselves in order to recover from their traumatic experience
It is an hour and a half long presentation and I have an assistant who will be helping me, but who lacks certain presentation skills.
So I not only have to develop a presentation, I have to find ways to play off of her strong points and downplay her less strong ones.
The game has to be finished by Saturday because it is a part of a presentation that I set up that is more generic and can be used for a broader audience
I've tested it out on a few feminist groups that asked me to do presentations for them
is the sexual trauma generally an issue these people encounter during such work, or is it rather referring to causal traumas that can distort self-image and lead them down such career paths?
In fact, the most common scenario for me to encounter is very similar to abused wives I counseled when I was volunteering for Domestic Violence Services
A spouse or boyfriend
Though, the explanations that victims and their abuser provide for reasoning behind the abuse varies, the rest of the scenario is pretty much the same
i see. i was under the impression that it was over represented amongst sex workers since you were targeting that specifically, but that's more about setting a scope of the project, then?
Sex workers do see more cases of domestic violence
But, the things that seem to be causing it (though, this hasn't been tested, yet, because people have, thus far, refused to give it attention) seems to be the social apathy regarding sex workers.
There are few consequences for abusing a sex worker.
It is also tougher to report crimes and get problems dealt with when you are a sex worker.
An example: Last year, I went on a date with a guy - an actual date, nothing to do with my job - and he had complained that he had no money. I felt sorry for him so I took him to dinner and paid for his meal and his coffee. I didn't want him to suffer. I even gave him gas money.
He stole my debit card.
When I reported the crime, the officer I talked to, of course, asked about my work.
Nothing about this incident had anything to do with my work ...
But the officer's response when he heard about my work was "oh, no wonder."
That brings an interesting question though. @David, what the general perception of sex workers in Sweden? Your country is in an unique place on that topic, in general.
Your country is very left-wing, and feminist, yet the general perception seems to be that prostitution is exploitation of women (as can be seen by the laws)
yeah, sophie would probably be more qualified to answer, as i'd only be acquainted with my perception, which doesn't put me in a better position to speculate about differences
on that note; as of the last few years, we've been under conservative rule, i'm sad to say
@DavidHedlund Dude, the conservatives in Canada are the Democrats of the US. You're more left-wing than we (Canadians) are (well, that, and you have leaders who knows a thing or two about economy, which is a lot more than most Western countries can say)
@Sophie: I couldn't agree more with legal and controlled being the only way to go. on the same line of discourse, Portugal decriminalized drugs a couple of years ago, and I gather they consider it a very successful attempt at fighting addiction
@SophieMonster Quite frankly, I think we have a good influence on Canada. I'm only bothered when the Bloc or the Parti Québecois ask for the moon and then are outraged when they don't get it. It's like, C'mon guys that's just not realistic.
@SophieMonster ..oh, and now. We're the sole reason Canada has had to endure Harper for so long. He never got a minority but, since it's politically risky to ally with the Bloc Québecois, the Liberals weren't able to build a three-way alliance.
@Sophie: would you say that sex workers are generally in their profession by choice? I read a report ages ago that stated that in Sweden, most sex workers actually had another job which they considered their primary, and they were just doing this on the side because they thought it was a neat way to gain some extra income. That always struck me as a bit odd, and I've always just put that off as being due to those few cases being more prone to attend such research.
Since I study this and am an active part of the battle for sex worker rights and helping people understand the industry better, I think I can probably help with adding a little perspective.
Firstly, there is simply not information to back up Dr. Pinsky's claim. In fact, his claim is one that is ...
I am aware that there are some that aren't there by choice, but I've never met one and neither has anyone who I've discussed the same issue with who would know.
In fact, Romania and a few other countries have a very high rate of forced participation in sex work. The more conservative the country, the more likely sex workers from there have been forced into it.
@DavidHedlund In depends what profession we are talking about, and what class. Escorts, for example, are in the business by choice. Period. Usually, those who are "not there by choice" are there by necessity (i.e. they need a job). However, that isn't very different from, say, being a janitor. Except it involves sex.
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@SophieMonster You should totally drop that and try jQuery
@Sklivvz I code nothing above C and I code embedded C so the primary issues I deal with require lots of thought and design, no need for programming questions, I never really use SO.
@Kortuk Only thing I programmed in was JavaScript, so I got the joke when they started saying jQuery all the time. The answer to every single JS question I had was "jQuery." Literally. Well, that and "you forgot a character here"
@DavidHedlund Unfortunately for the worst. I'm deep into blackbox reverse engineering an application because the programmer decided to use Linq2SQL... and of course it's really hard
but my laptop was a gift from my girlfriend so I probably will just live with it that way and will eventually turn my desktop into a full time linux machine
On a related note: in my cam rooms, I typically have a rule that my clients are not allowed to start OS wars while I'm active in the public chat.
@JasonPlank There's overlap in everything. Do you know Dr Brooke Magnanti? She's a famous blogger and writer, with a master's degree in genetic epidemiology and a Ph.D. in forensic science. Her blog isn't about science though; it's about her life as an escort during university.
@Borror0 I think I had heard of her in the news at some point. Usually what happens here is when someone does some digging and finds that someone has worked in the sex industry, there's a huge uproar and someone loses a job. In that respect, she's an anomaly.
@SophieMonster, On that note, your post was very long and informative. I understood the feedback of give us references, but on the same note, I work with RF all the time and my WiFi is safe post had almost no references. I know it and I did not need them. Also, I only know scholarly references which mock any professor whom trys to do RF sensitivity tests out of position(refering to RF engineers, I know others can do studies)
@SophieMonster I think all walks of life have a percentage of bad communicators.
@Dogmafrog It is an SE policy to give you a 24 hour "cool off" time, just in case you change your mind. We'll delete your account if you have not changed your mind by this time tomorrow.
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