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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • They’re dissociating the numbers on the right from their normal 2-digit value into being two separate 1-digit values. 16 is not sixteen, it’s a one and six. The value of 2 is between 1 and 6.

    Same goes with 3 being between 2 and 4.

    Then they do even more delightfully dumb shit when extrapolating this logic to 4.

    In reality, the things in OPs image are just $8 a piece.

    What I’m saying is that this commenter is a fuckin savant.














  • You can actually do it on a much shorter time scale, depending on the species in question. A Soviet scientist in the 50s started it with foxes and had noticeable results by the 4th generation, less than 2 decades later.

    The real catch here is in the semantics, defining your terms and expectations. How much genetic drift you’re aiming for, and what traits you select, what results are functionally “good enough”, etc…

    In this example, we probably don’t need fully domesticated animals, some tamed generations should be good enough.