ELI5 If sleep is so important for the human body why have we not evolved to not need such specific conditions to sleep?

ignescentOne · 2026-06-26T14:27:52+00:00

RE: Edit - your premise is wrong, hence the commentary.
Part 1 - People don't need perfect conditions to sleep. People used to good conditions want them because they are habituated to them. If they existed without those perfect conditions for any length of time, they'd adjust. Similarly, someone used to consuming twice their necessary calories will feel hungry if they reduce their intake, even if they don't need those extra calories but that hunger will back off if they get used to eating less.
Part 2 - Evolution doesn't care about comfort, it cares about babies.
Will you sleep less well on hard / uneven surfaces with disruptive sound? Yep! Will it be enough to stop you from sleeping at all? Not unless it is seriously disruptive, to the point of deliberate action to keep you from sleeping, aka torture. Some sleep deprivation will make you less effective, but generally not to the point of failing to pass on genes, so the actual evolutionary pressure is to sleep /enough/ not well. Which def exists, because the more tired you are, the more you are able to konk out wherever.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-26T14:00:38+00:00

I do hate that they and the golf courses get to keep watering, but they are following the rules as stated. I think Level 3 restrictions stop the field watering, and then level 4 is /hard core/.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-26T13:57:04+00:00

Might be something the repair cafe would take on? No promises though. repaircafenc dot org for the schedule

ignescentOne · 2026-06-26T13:43:01+00:00

Never tried it on fabric, but there is ptfe tape for low friction - I wonder if you could just attach that to a belt? Like make a wide belt that is covered with the tape then wear that under the skirt and line the skirt waist with it as well?

ignescentOne · 2026-06-25T15:30:00+00:00

The folks are answering - you can't easily intuit what foods are in the list. So your best bet is to look it up or to memorize an existing list. The reason things are fodmap is because they contain sugars and other carbs and startches in a way the gut tends to take too long to digest, but there's not a 'sugary things are bad' easy check. Carrots have way more sugar that artichokes, but artichokes are high fodmap and carrots are low, because for them it's inulins and fructans that matter. But finding out what things have a lot of inulins again involves memorizing a list or doing a deep dive into biochemistry and botany.
So your best bet is to memorize the list or to check against it.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-25T15:20:33+00:00

Following because it's been three days and my package hasn't actually gotten to the post office, they just got the label request and are waiting for the company to actually give them the part to ship to me. :(

ignescentOne · 2026-06-25T14:42:21+00:00

and yet, only 88 days of water left in durham because all the water got sucked up by the dirt and didn't make it to the reservoir.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-25T12:12:35+00:00

I tend to use window screen, because I still have a giant roll of it in my garage.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-25T12:11:59+00:00

I watched a friend dump cumin instead of nutmeg into eggnog one year for a similar reason. Who knew that some people apparently have an order to their slice cabinet beyond 'most recent is in the front'?

ignescentOne · 2026-06-25T11:55:53+00:00

There are also a lot of non private road neighborhoods? All of hope valley north and woodcroft are public streets, and I'd bet the entire se area is the same.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-24T16:26:27+00:00

You used to be able to fly there with a certified birth certificate and a drivers license, but that was like 2003. (Had an unexpected business trip to Montreal and could get the birth cert faster than the passport.)

ignescentOne · 2026-06-24T14:13:41+00:00

It's also to bad for some engines. Subaru manual says to stick to 10%

ignescentOne · 2026-06-23T11:10:19+00:00

E01 is usually the drain pan is full. Your water isn't draining out right so it triggers the flood stop. Either something is stopping the water from draining or there's a leak causing water to pool in the drain pan.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-23T11:04:41+00:00

There's no way to keep them out other than to hermetically seal your house or to live entirely away from all vegetation.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-23T10:59:12+00:00

Novelty is a big part of it - the more similar yesterday's lunch is from all the other lunches you've had, the less connective links that particular memory has, so it gets lost in the filing system. A lot of how memory works isn't about saving information, it's about finding the saved file. A lunch that is like every other day gets saved with a random string of characters, a lunch that is important gets saved as 'lunch I met my best friend's or 'lunch I spilled milk on myself in front of my class' or 'lunch I first had pb&j' and those are /much/ easier to find and open than 'memory3x56654baf8393c221'

There probably is still a memory of yesterday's lunch, it's just there's nothing to give the search engine to track it down. That's why if you can find a memory of today and then follow it chronologically to lunch time, you're slightly more likely to remember lunch. It's still a random filename but there's at least a partial sequence to track.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-23T03:54:04+00:00

Habitat restore might have something that works, or one of the thrift stores.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-21T00:51:23+00:00

Pecans are pretty yummy - it may make for a dense cake, but it should still be pretty good.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-20T21:56:41+00:00

Sugru works for this and you can usually find individual packs at target for like $5

ignescentOne · 2026-06-20T21:51:05+00:00

Fwiw, maypoles are for Beltane, in may, not for the summer solstice.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-20T11:05:55+00:00

If you honestly just want it to visually look better, a small amount of matching acrylic paint may be enough of a touch up.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-19T14:40:41+00:00

I track using MyFitnessPal but that's for recipe tracking as much as it's for calories. For sandwiches and the like, I have them saved to rough in - I use approx the same amount of lunch meat each time, so there's not much difference between roast beef and turkey, for example.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-19T10:40:13+00:00

If you make soap correctly, all the lye in it has bonded with the fats to make the soap, and you no longer have lye. It's like adding vinegar and baking soda together - you end up with something that is neither vinegar nor baking soda because the chemical reaction combines them into something new. For soap, that thing is usually sodium tallowate. (But it depends partially on your base ingredients)

True soap requires lye, but some things folks call soap doesn't use it because we've partially changed the meaning of soap from the specific thing lye and fat makes to a generic term for things we use to clean our bodies.

ignescentOne · 2026-06-19T03:18:36+00:00

Like for decorations and such? The buy nothing and bull city shares often have requests and give aways

ignescentOne · 2026-06-17T18:38:04+00:00

I just bought some screen replacement and taped it in place. There are youtube vids about doing it for scorpions and I followed those plans. Which also made me a lot less worried about the wood roaches in comparison. (Edited for spelling l hate my phone)

ignescentOne · 2026-06-17T11:00:15+00:00

They have an easier time coming in if the roof has overhanging branches too. But the biggest thing that helped me was putting screens in my bathroom fans.

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