silence7

joined 1 year ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] silence7 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] silence7 33 points 1 week ago

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

[–] silence7 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] silence7 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks. I somehow missed the copy-paste

[–] silence7 7 points 1 week 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 week ago

Or, in this case, not being batty enough.

[–] silence7 3 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

[–] silence7 45 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] silence7 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The donation form for the Harris Victory Fund literally describes how the funds you contribute are divided between the Harris campaign, the DNC, and the state parties.

view more: ‹ prev next ›