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Summary Long mired in confusion, we are more confident now that turtles in general evolved from a mosaic of "stem turtle" species that seem closely related to lepidosaurs. There two main types of turtles: Cryptodira and Pleurodira. Sea turtles belong to the much more numerous Cryptodira, which...

https://reason.com/2019/10/02/everyone-dares-call-it-treason/ Such a joy to see us return to the good old absolutist days of the Stuarts and George III.

US launches ICBM to demonstrate ‘robust & ready’ nuclear deterrent Sounds like public relations baloney to me. But what do I know? I'm just another Russian bot... who happened, by the way, to ace the Voigt-Kampff test on the first try. So don't think about retiring me yet.

Joe Biden Plans To Ban and Register 'Assault Weapons' but Won't Say What They Are Creepy Joe is unacquainted with muzzles in multiple senses.

San Francisco is pulling out all the stops to fight homelessness – except actually making housing affordable

'Absurd Games': Russia Vows Response to New US Sanctions Over Election Meddling

Well, since the name of the game appears to be not actually debating anything in the Debate subforum, I may as well contribute to the steady crawl of threads. Bolton’s WH-bashing private debut met with elated applause by impeachment-hungry #Resistance media Rest assured, I have combed the...

A new video from Robert Whittaker, whose channel is excellent in general. Summary: Don't just receive; give. Offer support when you're well. Follow up on people. When you offer support, give something more substantial than "thoughts and prayers." Try making empathy statements that reiterate...

Air con before it was cool: Scientists solve mystery of holes in T. rex’s skull The article is a little bit inaccurate (as can be expected with journalists). It implies we are uncertain T-rex was warm-blooded, whereas we are about as certain as we could possibly be. Also, it kind of implies...

I recently had an episode in connection with my new job that resulted in my being fired. I went into a paranoid depression. My shrink made the recommendation to bump my Risperdal up from 0.5 mg to 1.0. While it's only been a few days, I'm really starting to experience the world in a different...

With all that's going on at my work, I'm just beginning to think that the only thing I'm cut out for is simple manual labor in poverty. I'm no more perfect than any other human being, but I'm very intelligent and insistent on honesty, and as soon as people pick up on that, they start maneuvering...

Brothers and sisters, I have a very worrying situation developing around my new job. I work with children with disabilities. Seven years ago, I started working with an employer in the area who, over the course of 5 years, made apparent to me that they did not prioritize the well-being of the...

This subforum really needs more activity, and I'm honestly surprised that a "ranking" thread isn't already here and near the top. Tell me what your top 5 favorite games are, and why. And beyond that, tell me how your list squares with what you consider to be your favorite genre. If you want...

*sigh* People Are Freaking Out About This Video Of A Baby Being Aggressively Baptized I'm having to explain to some of my rural baptist friends and relatives that this has been done for hundreds of years without Russians, Bulgarians, Greeks, or Lebanese having rampant problems with...

Lately, the TV show The Americans has been on my mind. It's one of my favorite. It deals with two Soviet spies who struggle with the reality that their government lies to them and routinely botches the information it gives them out of ideological paranoia. It deals with the guilt these spies...

Over the past couple days, I've had a conversation with a pair of longtime Reformed Facebook friends that severely disappointed me. And in the end I'm left wondering whether there's anything left for me in Protestantism. In Reformed culture on Facebook, it's not unusual to make entire...

I am Reformed, specifically (semi-)Covenanter Presbyterian. Membership-wise, that puts me about as far from Orthodoxy as the North Pole is from the South. Psalm-singing, Communion with real wine, standing for prayer, offerings collected before the service begins, no imagery whatsoever...