AmidFuror

This whole post is just a political “capitalism bad” statement. It might as well be about bank robbers.

We don’t have to take any shit from you here.

Assume you mean from simple building blocks instead of evolving from the reproduction of other bacteria, we could know if there were ever enough of this new bacterium for us to find and isolate it.

For one thing, if it didn’t come from other living things it would not share the genetic code. Almost all organisms on earth use exactly the same translation of RNA codons to amino acids. The few exceptions are changes of just a couple of codons which had fallen to very low frequencies in the hosts’ genomes.

That universal code is one of the reasons we know all life discovered to date evolved from a common ancestor.

A new bacterium, if it evolved convergently to use DNA and RNA and a 3 letter code (a big if), would not use the same translation as modern life. Even if there is some bias towards specific codons, the chance of the same core code happening twice is astronomically low.

This takes agnosticism to an extreme. There’s no way to know anything “for sure.” But there are different levels of certainty, and we can work with probabilities to make reasonable conjectures. That’s how science works, at least.

Can we say any woman can consent to breastfeeding her child if she lives in a patriarchy?

When something is too “on the nose,” for example, it’s written in exactly the way that would induce the most cheering and virality because it appeals so much to one group of people, it’s worth considering it may have been written to provoke exactly that reaction.

You’re categorizing them according to phylogeny. However, the “othering” may have more to do with the species’ normal habitats. Pinnipeds and cetaceans belong to the sea. Perhaps they’d accept freshwater aquatic rodents like capybaras more than tree- and ground-dwelling rodents.

A lot of the dark emojis are just from white people bragging about their tans.

And how is the chocolate factory business?

Ask about the Lindbergh baby.

You’re Casey Anthony?

Different people have different tastes, for sure. The problem comes with the ratio. Whenever both types are served, the ratio of chocolate chip to oatmeal raisin is always too low. That’s probably because there is a minimum batch size and you would need a huge event to get the ratio right.

Inevitably the last people to grab cookies only have oatmeal raisin as a choice but will probably assume they are chocolate chip, because who hosts a party with cookies and doesn’t serve chocolate chip cookies? When you bite into something expecting one thing and get something else it adds to the disappointment.

It would be like having an equal number of left- and right-handed items but not enough where everyone can have their pick.

According to this totally scientific site, chocolate containing cookies (any kind) are favored over non-chocolate cookies by 75% of people in North America (probably just US).

You’re entitled to your opinion, but you’re under no obligation to share it.

Still better than oatmeal raisin.

You don’t have to agree with an opinion. But people don’t get their own facts.

It’s thought that this was the ancestral state, and that specialized ducts (eventually nipples) evolved later on eutherian mammals.

Edit: I recognized my error moments later when I realized that marsupials have nipples too. So this evolved after marsupials and eutherians split from monotremes.

My fiancee refuses to use a Notes app on her mobile phone. Instead, she SMS texts notes to her own number.

She also likes to screenshot and text news headlines instead of copy / paste.

It slows microbes down but generally doesn’t kill them. I put sourdough starter in the fridge between bakes so I don’t have to feed it as often. The refrigerator is hospitable to life when you just want it to “chill.”

So is getting molested.

Can it take back headlines that imply the text regrets itself? It’s a “regretted” text. The text isn’t full of regret.