My three-year-old daughter plays this with cat. It's a cross-species thing that is possibly part of mammalian brain development in origin.

The cat is less than one year old. Our 17 year old cat does not engage in this at all and hisses at the kitten for even trying to start a game of tag. This makes me wonder if that origin is more related to predator/prey.

In regards to your 17 year old cat…

All mammalian species have something in common.

When mammals are young we all love playing. This is true for humans, dogs, elephants, primates, cats and so on.

But play ends up disappearing as the mammal gets older. Compare a playful baby elephant to an adult elephant. The baby elephant loves playing. Not just with other elephants but with humans and dogs and so on. But older elephants are more likely to watch and less likely to play.

This is why your 1 year old cat loves playing while your 17 year old cat doesn’t.

It’s a very interesting phenomenon

Play is a semi-structured way of learning important skills! Evolution really just has to make it engaging enough for you to learn the skills, not much of a reason for it to persist after that.

>not much of a reason for it to persist after that

for working out and keeping fit!... oh, hmmm, I guess that's glaring evidence that working out and keeping fit are not beneficial after all

I am clearly speaking from the perspective of evolutionary pressures. And you're right, there's very little evolutionary pressure on working out, staying fit, staying happy, etc. etc. beyond the bare minimum required to ensure propagation.

Once you can't reproduce and can't help with reproduction evolution doesn't care if you stay fit.

Well that's not the point of play to begin with, it's learning motor skills, so your logic doesn't make any sense.

You don’t need to play to stay fit.

Adult lions don’t play like baby lions yet adult lions are still fit.

Dogs seem to want to play until they're physically unable to.

There's a theory that the domestication of dogs selected for the retention of juvenile behavioral traits into adulthood (non-suspiciousness, playfulness), vs wolves who do not retain those traits.

It's even thought that the first domesticated dogs pre-domesticated themselves to an extent because the less suspicious wolves were able to use human settlements' trash middens as a food source.

It's just knees.

The cat might not want to move as much anymore if it has arthritis.

Young squirrels also play tag.

Predator vs prey i thought too

Now do United Health

how its relevant?

You need to downvote and ignore people who respond with things like "now do X", "relevant username", "get out of here with your facts and logic" and similar Redditisms. The best we can hope for is for the Reddit interlopers to quietly go away.

If it wasn’t for appearances only it would be under HR or perhaps HR would report into DEI role.

They've given you a pull number and taken 'way your name

It's doing what the voice assistants were supposed to: solve problems by assisting you with more context in a conversational manner.

Text to speech queries solve the problem of my hands being broken. ChatGPT solves the problem of my brain being contextually broken and I need more context, not higher relevant search results at the bottom of the screen after the ads that I then slog through to wind up changing my query and searching again like some sadistic freemium ad driven Sisyphean task that flies in the face of innovation to help me reach a contextual nugget.

Nah, not even. I have a mutation called CDH1 that happens to be pathogenic and predisposes me to a greater than 40% chance of stomach cancer. It's a dominant gene which means it has a 50% chance I've passed it onto my daughter as well.

That cancer is what's known as a Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer gene (HDGC). It just so happens that the E-cadherin control that suppresses those cancer cells is not processed properly. The diffuse part is what makes it particularly tricky. It's on the surface of the stomach epithelial cells and progresses from there. The only solution is a total gastrectomy (prophylactic if you do it early). No carcinogen necessary. It's found in populations all over the world and pathogenic lines don't even have to be related. The mutation can occur independently in the germline and is passed on. As long as you reproduce before it kills you nature really doesn't care.

Fun side fact. It also predisposes carriers to 70% chance of breast cancer. As a result many of those diagnosed are women who then find out they need to also have their stomachs removed.

Ouch, that’s a raw deal. Very very very sorry about you. If you don’t mind me asking, what are the consequences and mitigations necessary to live with a total stomach removal?

Have an endorsement!

"I've done 3 cross-country road trips and this captures everything I remember about Kansas excluding the IHOP in Wichita where we met an overworked waitress nearly running the entire place."

That happens a lot at Waffle House, too.

Also hundreds of teenagers in cars hanging out in a parking lot on Saturday night is a thing in a lot of small midwest towns where there's not much to do after the chorin' is finished.

If this pulled snapshots from Google street view for the car view it would be complete.

Might not be fun to pay for.

I recall an Amazon director 10 years ago commenting during a mixer about how having kids was a limiting factor for career progression. It wasn’t possible to be serious about your career and be a parent.

Yes, managing lawyers accidentally say this out loud all the time.

I climbed 40ft up the outside of a silo without a ladder. Kids do the dumbest shit.