All I have to say is Vicious Mockery is back on the menu,

The problem, boiled down to resources, is that they have higher resource needs than other animals of similar size. Which has never been a good sign for evolutionary development.

The only really new thing in there is the genetic diversity. Some of that paper is a straight up thought experiment meant to persuade, not report findings. For example, the bit about flowering bamboo and how they must have endured thousands of such events in 8 million years. In rebuttal I would ask how do the authors of that paper know that the population hasn’t been getting whittled down by such events, bit by bit. They make suppositions about ranging farther for food, but again provide no findings. There are multiple other problems with the paper, including mischaracterizing their own tables but I’ll leave it there.

I will say that paper does a good job summarizing the position of people saying they will go extinct. By the way the full paper is freely available at Molecular Biology and Evolution. I would love to be wrong, they are very fun to watch. And if they can thrive with their habitats reconnected and protected then that’s great. But I’m also not going to be surprised to find out it’s just not in the cards.

I’m just commenting on what’s there.

Yup, my point is not that he isn’t an ally, it’s that being an ally isn’t inherently leftist.

Oh either works.

Oh definitely. it’s a spectrum, but his post doesn’t go that far left. The idea that any of that is “left wing” is spread by conservatives to make those ideas look radical.

No, Pandas are probably one of the best examples we have of an evolutionary dead end. They basically lost their gene to like eating meat, so they adapted to eating bamboo because it’s plentiful and nobody else was eating it. The problem with that is it takes a lot of bamboo to replace a meat diet. Especially because they never developed an herbivore digestive system. So they only process about 20 percent of what they eat. This in turn means they need large solitary ranges and that makes reproduction in the wild hard. Even more so because female Pandas have something like 2 days a year they’re fertile.

Humans certainly impacted them badly but there’s a lot of evidence they would likely go extinct without human intervention.

Oh thank you, I’ve been looking for that! For totally not Bardly DnD reasons…

Ouch. Fucking ouch. We’re right here you know. Looking over your shoulder as you write on that magic tablet. No need to denigrate ghosts.

Bradbury needed to look closer then because Obama was working on NASA to get it built back up. Trump didn’t magically make rockets available in a couple years. That stuff takes a very long lead time to get right.

To be fair what he’s described is at most Progressive. The left rejects the current economic model as a start. Workers owning the means of production instead of an owner class.

This government doesn’t provide for people’s needs and is still powerful enough to take everything from us.

The real problem is if it’s not powerful enough to maintain a top position on violence then I’ll end up paying a second set of taxes to the local sheriff and his posse of Ranchers.

We need to ensure power is used responsibly. Not just get rid of it and hope nobody comes along to fill the vacuum. (Spoiler Alert, they will, and there won’t be voting)

Don’t let them bring you down to their level. There’s so many fun gender neutral insults.

• ASVAB waiver
• Middle School Drop Out
• Failed Abortion
• Incest Experiment
• Good Idea Fairy
• Shit Fucker
• Couch Fucker <-- Thank you JD Vance!
• Two Balls Short of a Spine
• A family tree with no branches
• Couldn’t fight/talk their way out of a wet cardboard box

I mean really, there’s just so many.

They aren’t good people.

He can afford to pay twice the price of Twitter because he’s using government money. Remember he barely swung the 44 billion for Twitter. Now he’s buying something for more than double that? After putting code into the Treasury department computers to hide transactions?

Lmao.

I once saw someone read a Metallica song to their kid as a bedtime story.

My school had me read it when I was a kid.

Isn’t there a very famous children’s story about a pig that is more equal than the other pigs?

India made a run at wealth hoarding by issuing a new currency. They declared it was worth something like 5 old currency and you had to personally turn in old money to get new money. You couldn’t just digital it.

I have no clue how well that did or didn’t work but they haven’t imploded yet. So there’s a lot more play in this money thing than the finance industry would like us to believe.