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  • Try to get that past the union

  • Everyone here noticed how you did blame women

    1. I’m not seeing that this is the case here. Wearing white wedding dresses is traditionally only for “virgins”. The Queen was the head of the Church of England. It might even be unusual for a 90-year-old head of the church, not to object to something like this.
    2. I think this is a stretch, and assuming rather a lot about someone you don’t know
    3. The queen did object to Camilla wearing a white dress when she married Charles
  • I think it should be younger. Maybe 65.

    Members of Congress and SCOTUS should also have term limits

  • I found this very interesting:

    Persuading the BBC not to describe sperm whale clicks as “language” in their Blue Planet II series was the highlight of my science communication career. Why? 

    A lot of complex communication is going on in cetaceans, much of which we still don’t understand. However, I am convinced that we should drop the stifling and anthropocentric focus on language. It crowds out other perspectives on what is going on – for example, the relationship between rhythm-based communication and music might be a better way to understand the bonding function of coda synchrony in sperm whales.

    We should be wary of ranking species on a single dimension relative to humans, as if all evolution is a path to something like us (much like early anthropologists ranked societies by their progress toward western “perfection”). Instead, let’s take ourselves off the top of the ladder and see other animals as distinct branches of an evolutionary tree.

    I find great logic in the argument of understanding animal communications in relation to the animals themselves rather than their relation to us.

  • I think we should take serious action to make sure that it doesn’t, because if it does, it will be horrific. But, if it does, we also need to prepare for that possibility sooner rather than later.

  • Ugh, title gore. Shame on the editor for letting that alliterative train wreck go to press.

    A-C-A-A-C-C-A-A-S

    Ugh…

  • check

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  • Lol, Kirk Cameron doesn’t believe in science!

  • It wasn’t racism (this time), just an antiquated and sexist attitude towards who should get to wear white wedding dresses (Megan is a divorcée).

  • May I introduce you to the term “police work stoppage”

  • Source-available ≠ open source

  • Personally, I’m hoping for magic carpet ride with a genie across the desert …

    But you’re probably right…

  • Tacos.

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  • who claim good told them

    Was this a typo?

  • Why is it anyone else’s responsibility to keep them informed?

    Besides, I see information, ads, etc. (not to mention suggestions from my doctor) about various health issues including prostate health. It’s not someone else’s job to care for you as a grown adult.

  • And how’s that? You’re the one who keeps bringing up how “oppressed” men supposedly are while blaming the terrible mean women for it. I sure haven’t seen any of that, and here you are, insisting that the absence of it here is somehow magical proof you’re right, lmao…

  • If that’s the only time you ever hear about it, perhaps that’s suggestive of the types of conversations you have. I’ve never had that problem.

    Or maybe stop listening to all the bullshit that Fox News and Newsmax keep telling you.

  • They’re clearly saying that they won’t accept the results if Trump loses.

  • Tacos.

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  • My comment from the xpost:

    This person is openly telling you that the only thing stopping them from being a shitty person is some myth about otherworldly punishment after they die.

    Which, of course, means they’ll be juuuust as shitty as they believe they can get away with.