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Rule 1, OP.

You ought to link the Retraction Watch source, OP. Fostering a culture of responsible sourcing is incumbent on all of us.

Any particular words you don’t know? Probably the most likely ones are para- and monophyletic. For a taxon (scientific grouping) to be a valid clade, it needs to be monophyletic, meaning it contains the most recent common ancestor of the group’s other members and all known descendants of that common ancestor. Paraphyletic, by contrast, means not all the descendants are in there. For example, imagine if the mammals just randomly excluded the bears – that would be paraphyletic, because the bears also share a common ancestor with the other mammals.

So a monophyletic group of your family tree might include your grandmother, all her children, and all their children’s children, etc. A paraphyletic one might exclude Gertrude and her kids because she got drunk and stole and wrecked the LeBaron and we fucking know she did it and we don’t talk to her after that.

Dusion is Gen V – the middle stage of the Reuniclus line. Braixen likewise is Gen VI – the middle stage of the Delphox line. And Amaura is Gen VI – the pre-evolution of Aurorus.

Why is he climbing on top of a horizontal Donald Trump?

“London’s smallest statue” doesn’t seem feasible to track without other qualifiers.

I would add that making ignorance of the law a valid excuse would be a logistical farce. Mens rea is a real thing that’s examined during a criminal trial. The defendant’s state of mind can absolutely factor into their sentence or even whether they’re convicted at all; “ignorance of the law is not an excuse”, ignorantia juris non excusat, even has some exceptions under US law. But you could not possibly for every crime burden the prosecution with proving that the defendant 1) committed the act 2) intended to commit the act, and now 3) knew the act they were committing was a crime. Mens rea, while necessary in a fair system, is hard enough; condition (3) would make it functionally impossible to convict anyone who didn’t a) explicitly refer to what they were doing as a crime, b) receive a formal education in the relevant area of law, or c) commit a crime literally everyone is expected to know like murder or armed robbery.

This is a 2016 article from the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. Are you familiar with what PubMed is? Did you click the link?

FYI for the alt text: that’s Vince McMahon.

Crab kind of looks like a cross between the Japanese giant spider crab and a king crab (the latter on account of only having three pairs of walking legs).

Back to !undertale_deltarune@lemmy.world with ye!

Oh hey, this is the same person behind the “Lookin’ good, Susan” comic.

Zuck’s face is also completely fucked. He looks like an alien in real life already, but here it looks like his eyes and mouth have been paved over by a layer of skin.

It’s only legal if you can build up enough speed to move to the parallel board in a single frame.

Never listened to AM radio in the 90s, OP? FM too with Rush “I feel sorrier for the lung cancer” Limbaugh?

Please give me a whole tray of… peas.

The OP itself is a screenshot from Raw Story It’s basically a junk food news outlet, and the Oxford Internet Institute agrees.

he inherited Vietnam from Kennedy

He co-authored the Southern Strategy, he deliberately sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks to win the election, he explicitly targeted racial minorities and the anti-war left by starting the war on drugs, and need I even mention the obvious?

That what Slick wanted to do would not have helped is not an invitation to whitewash this monster.

Edit: And you mean “from LBJ”, unless you mean to say that Kennedy started US involvement, which he didn’t.