Remember the first rule of evolution (or at least should be the first rule): evolution does not perfect things, it just finds solutions that are good enough.

With that being said, plants simply can’t use nitrogen in its gaseous form. Instead, they can only use ammonium or nitrates. These are continuously produced by bacteria in the soil and taken up by plants through their roots (if you’re curious, look up “nitrogen fixation cycle”).

In an ideal world, plants would just be able to take nitrogen straight out of the air, convert it for their needs, and never worry about having enough. But like it said, evolution uses whatever works. What likely happened was that as plants were first evolving, there were already plenty of bacteria fixing the nitrogen in the soil. So there was no selection pressure to evolve a new nitrogen-obtaining mechanism, when they could simply uptake it in the roots with the rest of the water/minerals they were up taking. Simple, and it works. Not perfect, but good enough.

If you are crying because humanity will be dead in a billion years, you need therapy. You shouldn’t be living your entire life depressed because of what’s going to happen far, far, far in the future.

Bad photoshop

flaws! Didn’t you read the post!? /s

Idk, you get to point where you literally don’t even think about it. I was never as good as OP (more in the 20-30s range), but even then there were algorithms that I can done so many thousands of times that I barely even needed to register that there was a pattern. Muscle memory kicks in and just takes care of it.

I haven’t been into it for the past few years, but once I stopped practicing daily, I’d do periodic “check-ins” to see if I still remembered how to solve it. At one point I had gone like 6 months without touching the cube, and was still able to easily solve it. I didn’t even quite remember what the algorithms were or what I was looking for, but muscle memory seems to remember for a lot longer lol. So it doesn’t surprise me that it doesn’t phase him much. Not unless he was really hammered.

Winnipeg, Manitoba. Newer areas have more modern looking buildings of course, but older areas (built maybe 40+ years ago?) look exactly like this. This was literally the view from my last apartment.

Canada too! This is my entire neighborhood lol.

That was my first thought too. Goes to show how insane modern day graphics are.