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[Bad Take Crucifier]

George Washington is such a fucking baller that he's always the top rank in the military, absolutely peerless.

Legally speaking, if George Washington were to suddenly descend from heaven into America or some shit, and was alive again, then yes the law already says he's just in charge again.

That's seriously how it's written and if you don't think that's tight then you're a Harry Potter fan

 

[WinchesterPremium]

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Is it just me or is this really fucking ugly?
So my understanding of autism is that it’s a brain condition that starts at birth and presents itself when the child is about 2 years old. At this point it is very important that the child is diagnosed and they get the special attention that they need. The supper spazzed out autistic people you see today are the ones who were never really taken care of, while the high functioning ones are the ones who got the special, specific help for kids with autism.

what this picture tells me is the parent didn’t do a good job, or somewhere lacked in the care for the kid. Now the kids all fucked up, but man he’s good with a grill! And it’s just so... ugh. So ugly.

That is one of the most ironically autistic takes on autism ever lol. Despite Tumblr ruining the concept, it really is a "spectrum" of conditions. Some autists are potatoes who will spend the rest of their life banging their head against a padded wall. Some autists will go to special ed but can maybe help out in their family store or perform some low-skill labor and kinda function in society. Then you have the media friendly high-functioning autists that normies think about when they hear autism, and what super special people self diagnose as, who can live independently and function normally in a society. You can't love or care a potato autist into being high functioning any more than you could turn brain cancer into skin cancer.

I can't find the thread for context, but its perfectly reasonable for parents to be proud of someone at sped level or below for trying to help out around the house.

 

[Stasi]

Never really been a reddit user other than browsing some personal finance subs when taking a dump. Came across r/outside (basically people describing life as if it was an MMO) a while ago and thought it was pretty funny, some interesting creative writing. I swear every time I see a post now its the same faggy whining you'd see anywhere else on reddid but 10 times worse because these pathetic individuals are so emotionally stunted they can't ask for and seek real help and can only communicate through the medium of videogames.

 

[Bender]

Legally speaking, if George Washington were to suddenly descend from heaven into America or some shit, and was alive again, then yes the law already says he's just in charge again.

That's seriously how it's written and if you don't think that's tight then you're a Harry Potter fan

Not gonna lie, that's a pretty fucking badass situation you've suddenly made me think about.

 

[AnOminous]

Legally speaking, if George Washington were to suddenly descend from heaven into America or some shit, and was alive again, then yes the law already says he's just in charge again.

That's seriously how it's written and if you don't think that's tight then you're a Harry Potter fan

So this song was pretty much right.

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

So this song was pretty much right.

I wish they showed this in American schools today instead of the Marxist shit. Yo G-Wash, come back to life and do all that badass shit.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

George Washington is such a fucking baller that he's always the top rank in the military, absolutely peerless.

Legally speaking, if George Washington were to suddenly descend from heaven into America or some shit, and was alive again, then yes the law already says he's just in charge again.

You know, I am shizo. One of the weird "ideas" I have is that current USA exists due to, essentially, cementing itself through fiction and becoming an archetype.
And you having shit like this in your law is absolutely. not. helping!

 

[malt ipecac]

You know, I am shizo. One of the weird "ideas" I have is that current USA exists due to, essentially, cementing itself through fiction and becoming an archetype.
And you having shit like this in your law is absolutely. not. helping!

That's actually a fairly popular idea in political science. Not that popularity is relevant here other than as reassurance that your idea is valid.

If you're interested, check out Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities sometime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_Communities

 

[ColdOnes]

I know this subreddit is shitpost-y in nature, but you know you've seen enough when people are unironically defending China

The user who posted that is one of those very pro-China Chinese who gets offended at anything anti-Chinese

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

China has a major financial stake in Reddit. They intentionally allow and actually push this content. (To say nothing of Reddit promoting communist content while banning the USA right wing). Negative news on China is often downvoted, locked, or deleted. News praising China, and official CCP press released that make things sound better than they really are? Pushed heavily.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/ is one of the worst examples of this. I'll try to find some posts I have saved from it. They're notorious for banning ACTUAL CHINESE or other Asian people who criticize the CCP, China or question the mob. I also recommend checking out "sinophobia watch"

https://www.reddit.com/r/SinophobiaWatch/comments/eagum5/list_of_sinophobicantichina_subreddits/

"Sino watch" is trying to take down anti-CCP subs (even though the CCP is horrible)

 

[sleazetown]

I thought this post was reaching out for support judging by the sub name, but all the comments are other moms talking about how cute it is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingmom/comments/aptmhe/my_toddler_almost_never_addresses_me_as_mom_or/

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

How many Redditors do you know that actually love and care for science in an objective way?
Serious question.

 

[BubbleButt]

reddit is fucking pathetic. (A)

Post with the guy's actual quotes isn't the top rated comment. Some dumb white savior faggot self-flagellating is, though.

Don't let the archive fool you, this is a screenshot from the time of my making this post:

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Would these be the same intelligence agencies that said "IRAQ HAS WMDS PLEASE WAR NOW"?

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Would these be the same intelligence agencies that said "IRAQ HAS WMDS PLEASE WAR NOW"?

How quickly they forget.

Or the same ones that said they weren't spying on Americans...

 

[Bender]

Would these be the same intelligence agencies that said "IRAQ HAS WMDS PLEASE WAR NOW"?

"USA" and "Intelligence" are oxymorons, lol.

 

[NoReturn]

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How many Redditors do you know that actually love and care for science in an objective way?
Serious question.

Question for biologists vs. taxonomists. Why don't we just use the "can they breed" method for determining if two things are the same species? Too much work to test?

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Question for biologists vs. taxonomists. Why don't we just use the "can they breed" method for determining if two things are the same species? Too much work to test?

Because there's "exceptions" such as mules that are hybrids of two species but are infertile. It's not really precise enough a definition for science.

 

[Shaka Brah]

Because there's "exceptions" such as mules that are hybrids of two species but are infertile. It's not really precise enough a definition for science.

Also many clearly speciated animals can breed and have viable offspring. Like dogs, coyotes, and wolves. Biologists even admit that different hominid species could interbreed 30,000 or more years ago (e.g. Denisovans, Neanderthals) but can't make the leap that races are evidence of modern speciation.

 

[malt ipecac]

Question for biologists vs. taxonomists. Why don't we just use the "can they breed" method for determining if two things are the same species? Too much work to test?

Because there's "exceptions" such as mules that are hybrids of two species but are infertile. It's not really precise enough a definition for science.

My memory from science class was that the definition is essentially "can they breed, and can their children breed?" So I looked it up and that's more or less in agreement with the Wikipedia entry for Species. That's a pretty well-maintained article, so I trust it.

A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

Of course, no such definition had been codified in the 1871. And even with a precise definition like we have available to us today, Darwin's caveat of "without any further information" makes his statement a truism, really. Even today, many people would be surprised to learn that "panther" and "jaguar" refer to the same species. Without any further information, who wouldn't assume a Maltese and a Tibetan Mastiff to be of distinct species?

On the question of "science" vs. "not science", I like to recall the fact that Isaac Newton (yes, that one) spent significant time and effort on alchemy and that Pythagoras spent much of his life preaching about the evils of eating beans. Practicing (or purporting to practice) science does not imply being correct.