Yeah but small talk can get the ball rolling on a real conversation.

It can also be used defensively to avoid having the ball get rolling on a real conversation. This is a key defensive use of small talk which can be deployed at occasions such as “Family Gatherings”, “Workplace Water Coolers”, “Sports Events”.

If you know your relative is a conspiracy theorist and will inevitably try to use a gap in the conversation to talk about how the Jews are using their Space Laser to Direct Hurricanes at Lithium Deposits to Remove the Lawful Inhabitants from their Rightful Land… deploy small talk to avoid this.

P.S. Avoid “the weather” as that’s an opening to talk about how the recent hurricane was controlled by Blackrock.

For some reason, only one ape species ever has non-small breasts. You never get large breasted gorillas, chimpanzees or bonobos even though they share 98% of their DNA with us. What is it about humans that means that that trait was evolutionarily advantageous? It’s obviously a feature with significant disadvantages, so what is the advantage that offsets that for humans in a way that it doesn’t for other great apes?

I wonder if there is any evolutionary advantage to larger breasts. AFAIK, there’s no difference in their ability to deliver milk to babies. And smaller breasts probably have an advantage in a woman’s movement and agility, not to mention avoiding back pain. Humans also seem to be the only animal that has larger breasts than necessary – OTOH, humans are also the only mammal that walks upright, so there are other biological differences.

If it’s the case that the only evolutionary reason for large breasts is to better attract (some) men, that would be interesting.

Yeah, it’s a well known technique in programming called “rubber duck debugging”.

The process of explaining the situation forces you to think about it in a different way, which can help you with the debugging.

But, nobody actually credits the duck when it works. It’s weird that this guy seems to want to credit ChatGPT