I would put it on the front
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Finally something so I can walk home when drunk.
Cat girls or helping the elderly walk steadily?
Both?
It's Japan, it was definitely Cat Girls first, literally any justification to spend money developing this second.
If it were me it'd be a dragon tail, but to each their own.
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In all seriousness, human elderlies are actually evolutionary anomaly, because if Darwinian tenet of "survival of the fittest" applies 100% of the time, they would not be the norm. But the fact that old people are prevalent in human society is the proof that we are compassionate and loving creatures that transcend cold evolutionary programming. We care for others and the vulnerable.
Almost all of it comes down to how long it takes to raise children. It takes a lot more people and effort and time to raise humans vs any other species, and its made us unique in that we have essentially support roles. Elderly people, people who can't or dont want to have kids of their own, even older children, all have a role to play in making sure we make it to adulthood and continue the species.
Does anyone currently have any elders taking care of their kids? Or having done so?
The current generation of Elders living today aren't doing shit for support.
I would argue given how much voting power they have - they are actively making it worse for ~~parents~~ everyone
I think it's less common in northern america than in other continents.
It's becoming more common where I am for a couple to move back to somewhere near one of their sets of parents before they have kids so they can rely on them for occasional childcare since both of the new parents usually have jobs
The grandparents have jobs as well here in uk so nobody has families anymore..
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darwinian selection has nothing to do with aging. that's religious right / 1920s robber baron bullshit.
Except that it isn't a religious thing. I don't know if it was natural selection or societal pressure causing artificial selection, but human's are something of an evolutionary anomaly in the sense that the only other animals on earth who go through menopause are a few species of whales. There's a whole evolutionary theory tied to it called the grandmother hypothesis. Or you can watch this PBS video about it if you don't feel like reading. It's pretty interesting really.
Actually having elders in human societies is shown to positively correlate with better outcomes for the youth in that society. Grandmothers in particular have a measurable benefit.
Yeah. One idea is that, since our offspring take SO long to mature and take so many resources relative to other animals, that it makes more sense at some point for mothers to devote their resources to existing children rather than focus on trying to have more. So it benefits us as a species to have "support" people like grandmas in our society. This is getting into a tangent but there are all sorts of things that kinda "make sense" if you think about life before modern society. Homosexual men would have probably been an evolutionary advantage to a clan of early humans since it would have provided extra strong male bodies without adding to mating pressure. People with a preference for staying up at night and sleeping during the day could have provided more alert guards to watch for predators. Etc etc.
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I posted this further down but you would enjoy it if you haven't seen it already. The end of the video supports your statement. Why Your Grandmother Is an Evolutionary Mystery
Sure, in the context of physical abilities.
However, i think bands of hominids who care for each other have a survival advantage. I guess thats who we've evolved to be social creatures.
Also,, nanna might not be able to hunt mammoths anymore, but she knows what to do in years when the mammoth dont come.
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Cat girl GILFs
i just want to know if i can wag it and maybe wap someone with it if they're walking too close, all with just my brain
beats using a cane!
Imagine that thing when family come to visit. Wagging. Like. Crazy.
What's next, litter boxes in nursing homes? /s
Now if it can stab people and drain them of their bioenergy, I can reach my final form!
I'm supposed to be cleaning but now I'm laughing too hard imagining some "saturday morning cartoon" tokusatsu show about a squad of mecha-grandmas.
Tonight on Lifetime-Japan, Speed Walkers - A motley crew of septuagenarians must defeat the evil doer, osteoarthritis man, else they will be forced to deal with painful joints! Can these grizzled grandmas come out victorious? Tune in to find out!
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YES. THIS IS THE GOAL.
Imagine working in a retirement home and one day one of the residents tells you "I am taking part in this clinical trial" and then she comes back as Doctor fucking Octopus.
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I'd buy one. If I could wag it, I'd happily buy two!
About time they did something for the furries.
Looking at other papers from the same lab and this is the silliest paper I've ever seen, they're evaluating the effect of shining rgb lights at glass noodles on the eating experience
I have a feeling a completely different audience has a definite interest. They would just cover it in the same fur as the rest of their costume.
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Yup. That's the most cost-effctive solution to the elderly falling problem. Trust me there is no other reason we are doing this.
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