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How is horizontal gene transfer between microbes in any way relevant to a discussion about the ancestry of chickens that only reaches back to the dinosauria clade? Chickens are invariably a sub-group of the bigger group dinosaurs.

Chicken is equally close to T. Rex as all other birds. They all go back to the same common bird-ancestor who was a relative of T. Rex.

T. rex is more closely related to birds than to all non-theropod dinosaurs.

T. rex also lived closer to us in time than to Stegosaurus.

Same reason why humans don’t actually descend from monkeys, both monkeys and humans descend instead from a common ancestor that no longer exists

But that ancestor was a monkey! We are monkey, you can't evolve your way out of a clade.

This is why, IMO, Digimon could be a better representation of evolution than Pokémon, since one Digimon can evolve into many different forms, so that kitten could become a fridge, but also a dragon or a knight with cannons

But that is specifically not how evolution works. You can't evolve your way out of a clade, everything a cat would evolve into, would also be a cat. Maybe a weird cat, maybe a whale-cat (like whales are still ungulates, even if they are really weird ones) but still a cat. You can't evolve out of your ancestry.

Hans and Sophie Scholl definitely need to be on every list of people to admire

Ideologie der Utopie ist cool solange man sie sich leisten kann.

"Es kann der Frömmste nicht in Frieden leben, wenn es dem bösen Nachbarn nicht gefällt." hat Schiller sehr zutreffend den Tell sagen lassen. Und da kommen wir halt in den Konflikt zwischen der Utopie und der gelebten Realität. Soldaten abschaffen und Rüstungsindustrie zurückbauen wäre absolut vor zu ziehen, wäre das wie ich leben wollen würde. Aber der Angriff auf die Ukraine ist ein Angriff auf ein demokratisches, unabhängiges Land in Europa und hat vielerlei Auswirkungen.

1. Auch wenn sie nicht in der EU sind, kann ich es mit meinem Gewissen nicht vereinbaren diese Menschen ihrem Schicksal zu überlassen. Zu sagen "sind nicht unsere Werte, ist nicht unser Problem" funktioniert für mich nicht. Da werden Menschen ermordet, gefoltert, vergewaltigt von einem Aggressor der seine Armee in ein Nachbarland schickt und glaubt damit durch zu kommen. Das darf nicht zur gelebten Realität werden dass wir sowas einfach hinnehmen.

2. Unsere Freunde in Osteuropa haben davor gewarnt und jetzt natürlich und verständlicherweise wieder viel Angst dass ihnen das genauso passiert. Das Baltikum, Polen, Moldawien, Rumänien, die Slowakei... alle sind sie jetzt alarmiert und die Menschen haben Angst und fühlen sich schutzlos. Wir sind theoretisch in der Lage zu helfen, wir können diesen Menschen ein kleines Bisschen mehr Sicherheit geben, ist es da nicht auch unsere moralische Pflicht das zu tun?

How did I just stumble upon a wild Soviet Womble reference? Bwahaha

In Germany we don't "need" to do taxes as an employee, but you won't get anything back if you don't do them. You can usually just do them in some app, send them to the tax office, get some money back and pay the app a tiny fee for the help.

Then again if you own a house or a company or have any income that isn't taxed as receiving a salary, you better get a tax consultant and those can be pricey.

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HELL NO!

It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration. 

This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook.

The project is the effort of a broad coalition of conservative organizations that have come together to ensure a successful administration begins in January 2025. With the right conservative policy recommendations and properly vetted and trained personnel to implement them, we will take back our government.

The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is being organized by The Heritage Foundation and builds off Heritage’s longstanding “Mandate for Leadership,” which has been highly influential for presidential administrations since the Reagan era. Most recently, the Trump administration relied heavily on Heritage’s “Mandate” for policy guidance, embracing nearly two-thirds of Heritage’s proposals within just one year in office.

Paul Dans, former chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during the Trump administration, serves as the director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. Spencer Chretien, former special assistant to the president and associate director of Presidential Personnel, serves as associate director of the project.

It's every right wing "think tank" at work and combining forces into fascist-voltron. The Discovery Institute, the Eagle Forum, the Heartland Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Moms For Liberty, Pro-Life America, Turning Point USA and many others. It's basically the playbook for the next conservative government.

The Heritage Foundation is once again facilitating this work, but as our dozens of partners and hundreds of authors will attest, this book is the work of the entire conservative movement.  

In his last term Trump enacted or tried to enact two thirds of the policy recommendations of the last Heritage Foundation Playbook.

Analysis completed by Heritage determined that 64 percent of the policy prescriptions were included in Trump’s budget, implemented through regulatory guidance, or under consideration for action in accordance with The Heritage Foundation’s original proposals.

Did you know

Cicadas can sexually transmit a fungus that will infect the new host, pump it chock full of amphetamins and lets it run on a no-sleep-all-action hypersexual rampage where the fungus completely replaces the sexual organs of the cicada so when it has sex with another one that other will become infected and do the same?

For some definitions of noses.

Do they have a weird bump over their mouth in the center of their face? Some do yes.

Do they inhale or exhale with it? No.

Has it got anything to do with their sense of smell? Also no.

What do they use it for? Well functionally it's more of an upper lip than a nose.

How do they smell? Awful. But also they use the chemorezeptors in their antennae to smell/taste the air.

But he's got a great mustache

Perfectly balanced