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- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 days ago:
Except many foreign countries have stricter legal frameworks for corporations.
The “corporations are people” legal fiction means they have rights here. Citizen’s United has fucked this country in profoundly dumb ways.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 days ago:
I think its more there is a certain level of baseline public investment in most corporations and it seems dumb to maintain the fiction that people’s livelihoods should be sold as a commodity, especially to a bunch of despots
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 3 days ago:
Foreign country buying a US corporation.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 3 days ago:
How is this even legal?
- Comment on Who wore it better? 4 days ago:
- Comment on The vowels in her name have a secret message... 6 days ago:
How dare
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 6 days ago:
That’s the speculation on gut length in pandas based on statistical methods but panda teeth are already well adapted to eat bamboo so selection has been working on them for some time or at least there is no opposing selection at work in panda teeth preventing them from changing. Strangly the large canines are used to cut the bamboo which might be what created their niche in the first place.
Its been a while since I dove into this but from what I remember the speculation with gut length has to do with metabolic tradeoff. If pandas don’t get that tradeoff with the food they eat then they’ll probably keep their current gut length.
- Comment on The British Empire 6 days ago:
I promise to be only the most mediocre tyrant.
- Comment on The British Empire 6 days ago:
This is exactly what I was talking about, and its crazy this was 13 years ago.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 week ago:
Idk if “descendants of omnivores” counts because then you could exclude a number of critters like pigs for being “descendants of herbivores” and then ‘why do pugs have forward facing eyes?’
The obvious caveat is that pandas at the minimum don’t have selective pressure for side eyes or they have something pressuring stereoscopic vision even more similar to how aquatic animals have less selective pressure for forward facing eyes.
- Comment on The British Empire 1 week ago:
A) bring back third spaces where people can meet up and socialize without money. Decent wages so people have free time. Unions so people have breaks and rigbs.
B) authoritarian police state where porn is banned but the government has 10gb of photos of your genitals and sells it to advertisers who send you coupons for diapers when you fuck.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 week ago:
Only when its also correct
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 week ago:
Panda
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 week ago:
If a squirrel falls they’re probably not going to squish as hard as a monkey. Lots of scavengers also have forward facing eyes (ex racoons) and pandas notably have forward facing eyes and are herbivorous.
I think the climbing and jumping theory is better than the predator theory on account that it explains why large aquatic animals aren’t selected for close frontal eyes.
Plus many predators (cats notably) do climb and jump. Humans and monkeys also have werd postures that might lead to them falling over easier.
In reality its probably never just one pressure that leads to these kind of evolutions.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 1 week ago:
And cover their couches (badum tiss)
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 week ago:
Convergent evolution has more to do with environment and trophic structure than it has to do with lineage. Any animal that can produce a complex eye can have similar evolutionary pressure given similar environments unless there’s some other stronger pressure.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 1 week ago:
Governments support this nonsense by not attaching publishing requirements to research grants.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
Describe the apple you see in your imagination. Color? Texture? Shadows? Environment? Can you draw your image?
There is some flexibility here; I tend to have different levels (1-4) based on how awake I am.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
Doesn’t look like anything to me
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 1 week ago:
If only
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 1 week ago:
I think we found the winner
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
Yes, guard here, just give me a brief description of the culprit.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 1 week ago:
As a proud new york man person that eats new york a style a hot dog, I am upset about zohron mudani and his plan to turn hot dogs into gay communism.
posted from iphone in Sri Lanka
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 1 week ago:
I wonder if anyone feels like having some fun by combing through fox news and presidential retweets to find instances of overseas influencers fucking with our politicians.
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 1 week ago:
Clown shoes for the money clown.
- Comment on Seals the deal, once and for all. 1 week ago:
The piece you’re missing is the “scawy factor”. Conservatives are dismissive and controlling of women but they think black people and immigrants are scary (or as a child might say “scawy”). So same attitude and methods, different goals.
- Comment on Seals the deal, once and for all. 1 week ago:
The difference is immigrants are scawy
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
Ok imagine a six sided die. Roll it in your mind. What number is on top?
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 1 week ago:
Well I think we should caveat this as “in humans there is a tendency for sex to fall under two large umbrellas of typical characteristics” as there’s millions of small caveats for many mammals (its speculated parthenogenesis could naturally occur in humans under certain conditions).
Because of how early some features tend to develop in mammals there’s less variation than in other types of animals.
Outside mammals: Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds have many species that can change sex.
Outside animals: Plants and fungi are an absolute mess.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 weeks ago:
Matthew 25:41-46 seems explicitly targeted at modern republicans:
‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,
I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
