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> It's designed to spread at the perfect temp zone for human living, yet it's the by product of milk and a natural process. That is because butter is fatty, an

> It's designed to spread at the perfect temp zone for human living, yet it's the by product of milk and a natural process. That is because butter is fatty, and like lard, it will coagulate and spread smoothly at room temperature. It's not simulation theory, it's basic gastronomy. The struggle with Hacker News is that people regularly ask dumber questions than this during more sober news hours, so it's impossible for any of us to know if you're being serious.

b112 2y ago
You're making my point! This universe is designed that way. Designed so butter spreads. That's not a mistake. It's baked in.
- talldayo 2y ago
  Or hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary optimization for the conditions of thriving on Earth decided that a water-soluble lipid stable at ordinary temperatures maximizes your chances for survival under the conditions Earth presents. There are other fats that are liquids at freezing temperatures and solid as a brick at 1000c. It shouldn't really surprise you that animal fats are optimized for the average living conditions of a warm-blooded mammal. Any other mutation simply would have died off during evolution.
  - b112 2y ago
    That's what the designers want you to think, man! Don't let them pull the wool over your eyes, let them distract and dissuade your thoughts on this. Embrace the truth, don't shy away. Take that stick of butter and revel in its incredible happenstance, its wonderful mystery, and know that such universally derived splendour is not to be waved away. Take that butter, spread it. Feel the joy in is flavour and taste. Know that this only happens, that your toast and bread only survives unscathed in a universe where butter temp and human temp are a conjoined state of blissful commonality. Move that metric a little off, and your morning is torn asunder, your toast made into shreds of its former dignity, by the might of your hard, cold, angry butter. It's not a mistake, it's planned. Quintillions likely watch us all walk around, spreading butter every morning.
    - talldayo 2y ago
      I think I'm pretty comfortable leaving the butter where it's at right now, thank you.

b112 2y ago

You're making my point! This universe is designed that way. Designed so butter spreads. That's not a mistake. It's baked in.

talldayo 2y ago
Or hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary optimization for the conditions of thriving on Earth decided that a water-soluble lipid stable at ordinary temperatures maximizes your chances for survival under the conditions Earth presents. There are other fats that are liquids at freezing temperatures and solid as a brick at 1000c. It shouldn't really surprise you that animal fats are optimized for the average living conditions of a warm-blooded mammal. Any other mutation simply would have died off during evolution.
- b112 2y ago
  That's what the designers want you to think, man! Don't let them pull the wool over your eyes, let them distract and dissuade your thoughts on this. Embrace the truth, don't shy away. Take that stick of butter and revel in its incredible happenstance, its wonderful mystery, and know that such universally derived splendour is not to be waved away. Take that butter, spread it. Feel the joy in is flavour and taste. Know that this only happens, that your toast and bread only survives unscathed in a universe where butter temp and human temp are a conjoined state of blissful commonality. Move that metric a little off, and your morning is torn asunder, your toast made into shreds of its former dignity, by the might of your hard, cold, angry butter. It's not a mistake, it's planned. Quintillions likely watch us all walk around, spreading butter every morning.
  - talldayo 2y ago
    I think I'm pretty comfortable leaving the butter where it's at right now, thank you.