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Subsets are a thing in biology as well.
  • Linnaean taxonomy classifies apes and monkeys as two closely related groups. This is the classification system most people are taught in grade school.

    Cladistics is a style of classification that seeks to organize species and groups of species from when they branched off of other groups of species. In this style, everything is defined by novel features, but they are still members of the more ancient clade. Birds for instance, would be a novel clade emerging from Dinosaurs, and thus all birds are also dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are birds.

    Because there are two groups of monkeys with unique characteristics (new world and old world), and apes have unique adaptations not found in either group, we have no way of cladistically defining a monkey in a way that meaningfully does not also include apes.

    As a side note, this is where the phrase "there is no such thing as a fish" comes from. 'Fish' in the Linnaean sense are a huge and diverse category. Two random members of the fish class would likely be far, far more distantly related than a random mammal and a random reptile.

  • Donald Trump completes mandatory presentencing interview after less than 30 minutes of questioning
  • The article only mentions the time once other than the headline and makes no mention if this is typical.

    The article does mention that typically people meeting their probation officer are not allowed to have a lawyer present, but Trump was allowed to include his.

    It looks like the article is mainly talking about weather this is special treatment or not.

  • Boring Werewolves
  • What's really weird is that the sun seems to be setting in the same place that the sun and moon are rising. Clearly their entire room is rotating as they sleep. (Along with their little miniature city skyline on their windowsill.)

  • Why do women of all ages only have the option to buy and wear skimpy bathing suits?
  • https://aquamodesta.com/

    https://www.splashgearusa.com/

    Are some options for people who don't want clothing that is skintight and revealing.

    I've very occasionally seen brands like this at box stores. But the vast majority of time if you want something that isn't skin tight you have to get shorts designed for men and some sort of sports top with a shirt.

    Yes. Baggy clothing isn't optimal for swimming, and trunks will tend to stick awkwardly anyway, but a lot of guys would feel uncomfortable if speedoes were the only option. I know I would.

    It's a double standard plain and simple.

  • DID YOU KNOW THIS FACT
  • The blue and yellow maps are flipped because they are on opposite sides.

    The green parts are where opposite sides line up (through the center).

    The "two" Antarcticas aren't on opposite sides of the same globe, the Antarctica (blue) lines up with the opposite (yellow) northern Greenland (overlap in green). Just like the blue Greenland mainly overlaps the yellow Antarctica showing green.

    Just find a spot on the blue map, and then look at the yellow map to see what's on the opposite side (it looks reversed since you are seeing that other map from below.)

  • Dairy drinkers are not okay.
  • *Artificial Hormones have been banned.

    The natural hormones in milk still exist. The post looks mainly to be a response to the pearl-clutching that soy-milk contains a similar low-level of (plant specific) hormones.

  • Get rid of landlords...
  • Even without going full 'free housing for everyone' utopia, it would be nice if the rent students currently pay to landlords was recoverable when the space is no longer needed. The same way people paying mortgages can just sell their house even before it is fully paid off. We wouldn't need to drastically reshape society in order to allow people to invest in their own futures rather than shovelling most of what they have into a landlord's pocket.

  • Taking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate change
  • Well the first step is to reduce or at least drastically eliminate the amount of CO2 that is being released in the first place. Removal of carbon from the air is necessarily going to have to be a down the road plan. It literally cannot happen to any scale if we are still relying on fossil fuels in the first place.

  • UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s
  • Of course, "always cheaper" in this case means less money up front, but much, much expensive more down the road than the initial cost.

    Of course, the down the road cost isn't usually that visibly connected to the "make it illegal" plan, so conservative governments love it.

  • Ca...can I just roll for it?
  • You don't necessarily need to roleplay, but something like "I would like to play on their guilt by seeming hopeless." or "I would like to bring up the horrible acts of the orc warlord to stoke their anger." or "I would like to convince them to help by pointing out how their oaths may apply in this situation." would really help sell the specifics. If you are just trying a flat check I have no real way to know what you are planning on doing other than just sort of charmingly asking "Please?"

  • "Big Clearance! 12 in place of 1!"
  • That guy didn't have a car in the first photo either. They probably just walked home. But seriously, you can fit a surprising amount of groceries on a bike, especially with saddlebags or just a backpack. Plus, if you don't have to drive to the grocery store you often find you can make a few smaller trips now and then instead of one giant stressful trip that you have to plan everything around.

  • Gonna need a few rewrites
  • I've always assumed that the Borg were once a truly egalitarian faction. One that seeks out other points of view in order to invite them into a collective where every voice has a share in the overall direction of the whole.

    I could see such a collective evolving into the current Star Trek Borg if things like fascism take root. A rabid xenophobia of thought that seeks to destroy any 'wrong-think' within the hive mind.

    It would explain a lot of the problems that the Borg seem to have. Why they never seem to learn from their mistakes despite their adaptability, why they all share one mind despite their quest for distinctiveness, why they have a single load-bearing queen despite their usual priority of hyper redundancy in all things.

  • iPadd
  • Honestly if I could just print up a new tablet instantly and without cost, I would have half a dozen around me when I am deep into a research fugue.

    Being able to quickly and easily flip between books or articles (or even different sections of the same book) while at the same time keeping the existing information up on a screen that I can directly reference is great.

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