silence7

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For context, Dick Cheney announced that he’ll be voting for Kamala Harris.

[–] silence7 2 points 11 hours ago

They'd probably get less engagement if I did that; headlines that confuse people cause them to comment, which in turn causes Facebook and Reddit to show content to more people.

[–] silence7 2 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

The mystery is "why this gesture" and not "are they communicating"

The hypothesis that's being put forward is this:

Apes, they argue, do not inherit specific gestures, but they do inherit the sense that they can use gestures to communicate with other chimpanzees. The animals create new gestures by borrowing — or “recruiting,” in the scientists’ lingo — movements that apes commonly make.

 

Access options:

[–] silence7 32 points 17 hours ago

Gift link giving everybody access. You can edit this into the original post.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13078173

When you're not able to denounce people who promote actual Nazis you're way outside the realm of what's acceptable.

 

When you're not able to denounce people who promote actual Nazis you're way outside the realm of what's acceptable.

[–] silence7 3 points 22 hours ago

Per the article, they'll go where people want; not automatically down into "it's God's plan"

[–] silence7 2 points 22 hours ago

Thanks. I somehow missed the copy-paste

[–] silence7 7 points 1 day ago

Two ways:

  • If Republicans control both houses of Congress, they can simply change the law via reconciliation
  • He can tie up the spending in pointless bureaucratic procedure indefinitely
[–] silence7 7 points 1 day ago

Or, in this case, not being batty enough.

[–] silence7 3 points 2 days ago

They did just act; a bunch of Republican activists got outed as Russian tools in the process.

[–] silence7 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just one smallish outlet where the founders were Russian agents and the staff had a very flimsy pretext about who was paying them

[–] silence7 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

She's a Republican, and has close ties to a whole bunch of the pre-Trump Republican establishment.

[–] silence7 44 points 2 days ago

People with access to healthcare can hang on while deteriorating well beyond where he is over the course of many years.

[–] silence7 14 points 2 days ago

Yeah, it's blindingly obvious who "US Political Party A" is if you pay the slightest bit of attention.

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