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Recent content by Gene2memE

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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    Latest moral panic. Yawn. Seriously, this was around 20+ years ago. Wait until they find out about the more out there otherkin, or some of the moe and musume variants. Or, like, ANY of the fetish/kink stuff. I met and had some very fun times in the late 90s/early naughties with people who...
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    Hakeem Jeffries politicizes on and on for over eight hours

    Ah, it's red-baiting. With a side of Islamaphobia. "All we have to do is define our opponent as being a Communist or a Socialist or somebody that’s going to destroy our country” - Donald J Trump. "Communist. She's A Marxist, Communist, Fascist, Socialist. She's not actually a Socialist, she's...
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    Is This The New Normal?

    No. Some of us were pretty vocal about it (and I'm not even American). However, I was mostly focused on the immigration policies of my own country at the time. This was because of the cruel and inhumane - and under current legal precedent unconstitutional and illegal - programme of indefinite...
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    Is This The New Normal?

    They most certainly weren't. It was one of the things that dogged the Obama administration throughout its tenure. See this post for some details: Karoline Leavitt accuses CNN of 'encouraging violence' against agents for reports on new ICE tracking app Weird political mudslinging aside, the...
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    Four new seats?

    Depends on the seat and the body it resides in. Generally speaking, their role is to report on the goings on (discussion, debate, decisions) within a foreign political body in order to facilitate common goals or enhance co-operation. In the case of the European Parliament, observers are taken...
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    Four new seats?

    Yes. It's totally unworkable, both in principle and implementation. It betrays a near total ignorance of the current diplomatic situation, how diplomatic observers work and their purpose.
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    NATO Leader Lauds Trump as ‘Man of Strength’, ‘Man of Peace’

    No president was. The US was providing help to Ukraine well before the Russian invasion. Mostly in the form of intelligence, training and weapons.
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    NATO Leader Lauds Trump as ‘Man of Strength’, ‘Man of Peace’

    Andrew Jackson? A slave trader who ordered a genocide against the Native Americans. Opposed abolition and caused what you can argue is statistically the worst financial crisis in US history. Supplied arms to Texan separatists. Andrew Johnson? Dithered (in some interpretations, outright...
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    Icons of Evolution

    Conserved sequences aren't just compared with chimpanzees and other primates, we see them in comparisons throughout the rest of life. Here's a paper comparing the genomes of humans and pufferfish, which found "nearly 1,400 highly conserved non-coding sequences"...
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    Trump is releasing all the tariff letters to the public on Truth social

    That letter. :doh: The grammar. :doh:The structure. :doh:The content. :doh:The thinking behind it. :doh::sigh: Decades ago, I worked as a teaching assistant and tutor for first year undergraduate history students. If a student presented work of this calibre, the procedure was to leave it...
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    The will to live - Who is it from?

    Because Natural Selection operates on vastly more levels than just 'will to live'. It only "cares" (for lack of a better term) about reproductive success and 'will to live' is just one of any number of strategies to achieve that end. Evolution operates on the population level, not the...
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    The will to live - Who is it from?

    Natural selection. That's the reason for the 'will to live'. Natural selection favours survival. Organisms that don't have the 'will to live' will have lower survival rates. As a result, the population will have lower success in replicating/having descendants. That means that their genetic...
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    Darwinian evolution - still a theory in crisis.

    If someone comes up with a better naturalistic explanation of the available evidence and it has better predictive power, then the Theory of Evolution could be overturned. I don't think it will, but it's still a possibility. After all, the structure of evolutionary theory has gone through several...
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    Karoline Leavitt accuses CNN of 'encouraging violence' against agents for reports on new ICE tracking app

    There were VOCAL and VOLUABLE complaints from progressive and immigration reform advocates who were "left wingers" during the Obama administration. Not to mention waves of infighting within the Democrat party over the administration's approach- particularly its very high deportation count in the...
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    Fewer international tourists are visiting the U.S. — economic losses could be ‘staggering,’ researchers estimate

    Update on US tourism for year to May-2025. Air traffic was: US citizen outbound/return travel of 60.088 million, up 2.010 million passengers Foreign citizen inbound/return travel of 47.319 million, down 1.007 million passengers (about -2.1%). Forecasts are now that foreign visits to the US...
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