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Why do dinosaurs have big heads and tiny arms?

Someone will likely chime in with a more complete answer but the short answer is large therapods had big heads because they needed big strong heads for killing big strong prey.

If a stronger bite results in more successful kills, that creates a selective pressure towards the individuals with stronger bites. Weak bite dinosaurs die. Strong bite dinosaurs live.

To get a stronger bite, you need a lot of features. (Ex. more muscles, different structural elements) and this generally leads to heads getting bigger because big heads have more places for muscles and will then bite harder. Plus, bigger heads can bite bigger things (like, bigger necks).

The opposite is true for the tiny arms. The arms are not tiny because it's beneficial for them to be that small. They're tiny because there's no reason for them to be big.

If you have two individuals. They both have big powerful legs, and big powerful heads but one also has thick ole arms. If those arms don't provide any advantage to the individual, then they just cost energy, and put that individual at a disadvantage because they spent energy on arms while the other guy did just as well without them.

There is a much better, much more science-y answer to this too but I hope this helps in a more basic sense.

And I bet there are some cool YouTube videos and such on this exact thing if you want to do further research.

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What is the female equivalence for male macho culture?

Depending on what you're looking for "girly" could fit.

Ex. If a macho man is a "manly man" (which I don't think is entirely accurate because I think the concept of machismo is much more complex than that), then a "girly girl" would kind of be the equivalent?

Alternately, "femme" can be used to mean kind of the same thing but more respectfully since "girly" has a rather childish connotation. "Ultra femme" or "High femme" can be used to describe someone that strives for or is the peak of feminity but then... defining what that means is a whole other thing that's probably just as complex as defining Macho/ Machismo.

Not sure if this helps but I wish you luck in your search for the word.

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Ladies of Lemmy, how common is it for women to have foot fetishes like some men do?

Lady here and I can only really chime in with "feet don't do anything for me"

Actually, for my work, people send me pictures of reciepts for reimbursement and I got a batch of like 15 with one image that just had this cracked skin, mangled nail image of a big toe (next to a reciept) that left me a just a little more "decidedly not into feet" than I was prior to seeing that image.

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I raise you people who email screenshots of pictures they have saved in their gallery.

Like WTF are you doing?? SEND ME THE ACTUAL PICTURE! Why did you take a screenshot? That's a whole extra step!

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I love this response.

I think a lot of people view the search for a soul mate as a quest to find the person that's going to love them as deeply and unequivocally as they love themselves but neither of those goals are really... the thing you should be striving for.

I'm married and I don't think my husband loves me as much as he loves himself (which might sound sad) but I don't want him to love me the same way he loves himself. I want him to love me as his partner, as someone who is working alongside him to achieve what we mutually hope to achieve and the things we individually want to achieve.

There's a reason that bonds develop during shared experiences. Love comes from doing something with someone, a partnership comes about when you want to do a lot of things with someone. You can have so many meaningful connections working with other humans on things that mean something to you.

I hope OP can find a path forward where they pursue the things that matter to them and can find connection (romantic or otherwise) in the shared experience that comes from their pursuit.

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You can't hold public office and not know who fought who in WWII

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I swear to you that I believe the Holocaust happened.

I'm trying to say that one man, who was 18 years old, in 1943, living in Ukraine (which was part of the Soviet Union at the time), might have had limited options in what he did for a living.

And if he didn't want to his people to be a part of the Soviet Union then he could have ended up on a unit that was working against the Soviet Union. I'm not saying that was right or wrong. I'm just saying it's more complicated than "this guy was a Nazi" and the whole government of Canada is full of idiots.

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What are your favorite Bi fashion choices?

I'm a new/ confused bisexual so I genuinely don't have anything that makes me feel bisexual just wearing it.

I wish I could wear loose button ups (that's my baby bisexual dream) but they never look even remotely androgenous on me because the body shape I've got is pretty stereotypically feminine. Like, loose button ups especially just flow off my chest in a way that only really makes me look bigger than I am, while tight button ups make me look like a stripper.

The closest I've come is an undershirt with a loose, boyish button up worn open, which I like to do but again, with my figure, I don't think it says bisexual so much as it says "look, boobs"

So yeah, I'll be following this thread for tips!

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What are some creative works you're still happy with after you finished making them?

I've written a poem, and a couple stories/ novel length things and I'd say I'm happy with all of them.

The poem I look back on and think it's a bit pretentious but it's a poem and I think all poetry suffers from a bit of "I have the best words" type pretentiousness. It's deeply meaningful to me and perfectly captures the snapshot of the moment I wrote it so overall I'm happy it exists even if only me and one other person have ever really experienced it.

Story wise, I have a couple of fanfics I'm varying levels of proud of. There are two unfinished ones for which I'm reserving judgement, two I'm exceedingly happy with and then there's six or seven more that I'm like "yeah, those may not have been great but they were definitely good"

The one unfinished project is a trilogy I'm two books into and I think this project will either be my Magnum Opus or a gargantuan effort for little pay off but I won't know the answer for another year or two.

Luckily, I enjoy the actual writing part so whether I'm happy with it as a whole doesn't really matter right now but I hope it turns out to be something I'm proud of. If anything, I'll have to admire the effort I've put in but I hope I can also admire the finished product at the end.

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It took me 16 years to figure out why I hate a Journey song. What song did you hated until you figured out why?

I HATE Lost Boy by Ruth G.

I don't know if I fully understand why but I'm pretty sure it's a lyrical issue. Like something about the rhyme scheme or flow of lines just gives me really intense "I'm in 4th grade and writing my first poem ever" vibes.

The music itself probably also bothers me but I don't know music theory well enough to pinpoint why. Musically does it also sound like someones very first attempt at song writing? Or does it sound better than that which then makes the terrible lyrics really stand out?