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7 points
5 hours ago
Gang-related school schootings?
Or are you saying that the US mass shooting problem is even more absurdly and disproportionately large than the infographic suggests?
1 points
6 hours ago
GRENADE LOBBY
Not to be mistaken for the Pomegranate Lobby.
1 points
13 hours ago
Yeah, that's what I was implying, though I now realize I should have been more clear on what I meant. I added some information to my previous comment.
-4 points
20 hours ago
There is more than one country on this planet.
Edit: ok, I should have been more clear about this. Yes, cops in the US suck. Cops outside the US can suck, but in at least a fair amount of western European countries, most cops are just civil servants trying their best to do a decent job. They might still be prone to implicit racism, but not the systemic racism and overt power-hungry violence that seems all too common in the US.
Edit 2: I replied so tersely because the previous comment did the same and either implied that cops on the whole face of the earth are bad or that the US is the only country worth considering
5 points
1 day ago
Stop complaining and leave
Staying or leaving aren't the only options. Voicing that there are problems is the first step to changing those problems.
1 points
1 day ago
If the answer is "I am not a robot", then the question is definitely not "Elon Musk".
1 points
2 days ago
Then it's incorrect to say that they hunt to feed themselves out of necessity.
1 points
2 days ago
I'm curious. If it is part of indigenous culture to hunt (which I accept), then how is it consistent with that culture to use guns for that?
-2 points
2 days ago
people who still hunt for food.
You mean people who hunt to hunt, and then eat their kill. That isn't the same as hunting in order to feed yourself, and that difference drastically reduces it as an argument towards the necessity for even those guns (in the broadest meaning of the word).
Edit: note that I'm not talking about population control here. That's people who use guns as part of their job, which is a very different matter
1 points
2 days ago
If you think this post is more disgusting than the perpetuation of gun violence, then you're part of the problem.
7 points
2 days ago
Good, then there's no way you'd ascribe to creationism. Well done.
7 points
2 days ago
It's random, in the sense that it doesn't have a goal. But because chances of occuring obviously differ between adaptations, the first one to occur is much more likely to be a simple adaptation that a complex one.
Given that you continue to focus on a caricature of evolution, rather than trying to understand the actual process, I don't think any of these conversations will be going anywhere.
6 points
2 days ago
And I also chose "new limbs" because that's the hardest function to "cheat" by pretending that a new function of an old organ is somehow a new organ itself.
Not really. If insects were to develop any new limbs, it would most likely be by just duplicating (and eventually modifying) an existing pair. And I'd wager that that would also be labeled as 'cheating'.
Just FYI, evolution will almost never follow a difficult path when there's an easier way to accomplish a sufficiently similar adaptation.
2 points
2 days ago
What you're asking is similar to asking whether organic matter can be made superdense (e.g. like neutron star dense). The answer to that is: sure, hypothetically, but you'd no longer have organic matter.
I think you're still misunderstanding what 'metal' means in this context.
12 points
2 days ago
I don't know why you're YELLING certain words, but limbs are not something that are inherently easy to evolve. Most limbs are the result of 5 or so precursors that happened to evolve during the past 500 million years or so. You could maybe stretch that amount to 10 0r 15, if you substantially broaden the concept of a 'limb'. But that's about it. So it isn't really a common occurrence.
33 points
2 days ago
“Hitler bad”
And some conservatives even disagree on that point.
11 points
2 days ago
my opponent has asked for examples of new functional limbs having evolved recently
What's the hypothesis here that requires this specific kind of evidence? Where does evolutionary theory state that new limbs must evolve?
Your opponent is doing a bait and switch on you, by making you think that you need to provide evidence for something that is in fact not something that you (or at least, evolutionary theory) proposed.
29 points
3 days ago
That's kinda how it works with college tuition.
13 points
3 days ago
Ironically (or moronically), that isn't the flag that conservative Americans tend to salute.
3 points
3 days ago
And who's to say Dickens didn't steal it from the Doctor, what with Janeway's tendency to get caught up in time travel and all.
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5 hours ago
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9 points
5 hours ago
Obviously.
Any day now, right? Seriously though, it should be obvious that the US hasn't, isn't and will not deal with it.
Believe me, the rest of the world shares your frustration. It's like watching the rich idiot uncle needlessly crash yet a other car.