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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks. I somehow missed the copy-paste

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days 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
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Or, in this case, not being batty enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 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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