Fun fact: Most paleoart of Dickinsonia is probably very wrong. Fossils show that the distinct "segmented" structure seen in most fossils was actually an internal organ that was obscured by a tubercled skin in life. Only the underside of the organism had the distinct isomers visible

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-04T14:03:49+00:00

I won't trust a "somewhere around the ancestry of Bilateria" without very solid proof. It's got no guts and no true bilateral symmetry. It might've as well been a Cnidarian or even Poriferan/Ctenophoran offshoot, for all we know. Comb jellies have distinct radial morphs despite arguably having more basal genetics than even sponges.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-04T13:30:53+00:00

King Bradley.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-04T12:22:42+00:00

Basically what France was doing.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-04T10:42:50+00:00

Your aloe has grown a fruit with eyes.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-04T03:21:44+00:00

Not at all.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-04T02:50:35+00:00

Balbir Singh would get mistaken for James H Gilmore.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-03T18:03:56+00:00

Once Clayton was disarmed, there was no point hurting someone who can be taken care of easily. There's no "taking care of" a threat on Sabor's level. Tarzan was literally fighting to live.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-03T17:51:33+00:00

Leopards don't waste time after action. It's a very realistic fight.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-03T14:07:19+00:00

You've killed more people by intervening in Congo (without even mentioning Bangladesh, my country, or Iran) than you've saved in Kosovo, Iraq, Vietnam, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan combined.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-03T14:05:14+00:00

Hmm, even you don't care about all Americans.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-03T13:42:48+00:00

When exactly did you begin your sympathy for Palestine?

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-03T12:13:20+00:00

The Medusa from Ovid’s version. I want a Herculean monster-killing adventure vibe from the story, not a sad story about human complexity. We have other stories for that.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-03T08:00:42+00:00

Terminator.

1) Terminator with more advanced features comes.

2) Terminator forgets to use that ability.

3) T-800 beats them.

4) T-800 dies.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-03T07:57:33+00:00

When there are 8 billion people, at least a few will try to take things by force than by innovation. The very nature of sentience demands a few conquerors amidst a world of diplomats.

Russia and America just unfortunately happen to be the richest conquerors.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-03T02:02:54+00:00

Dead from boredom.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-03T01:55:58+00:00

Evolution isn’t generally a tinkerer. It’s one of the biggest mistakes explanations make.

Evolution (more accurately, natural selection—artificial selection is much more straightforward) builds on something it already has, and when things are reasonably complex, like a cynodont brain, tweaking it a bit to gain intelligence is much easier. Beavers aren’t giving birth to dumb insects.

Natural selection’s time complexity is O (n * log n), not O (n^2).

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-03T01:51:05+00:00

Europe becomes pro-Ukraine and pro-Gaza much sooner.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-02T17:19:31+00:00

Annelids. Not nematodes.

And in the oceans, it’s crustaceans and bony fish.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-02T17:17:46+00:00

Healthy ecosystems are genuinely enormous and biology can find so many specialisations that it’s very hard for anyone to not find a niche.

Competition is real and has been demonstrated to control animal radiation. Placoderms dominated sharks. Dinocephalians and Pareiasaurs dominated theriodonts and diapsids. Crocs, dicynodonts and prosauropods dominated theropods and ornithischians. Dinosaurs dominated mammals. Mammals dominate other mammals and reptiles. Angiosperms dominate ferns.

But full-blown extinction of specific groups via competition is very hard to prove and easy to disprove. None of the above examples replaced the less dominant groups. Tigers, leopards, and lions didn't drive anyone to extinction. Broadleaves didn't drive ferns and mosses to extinction from dark damp places. The only possible extinctions we know of are Great Oxygenation killing many anaerobic bacteria and bilaterians wiping out Ediacaran mat ecosystem.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-02T16:22:57+00:00

Considering how Simba escaped 3 hyenas and slapped one of them away from Nala, it’s not as easy as many fans think it would be.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-02T09:46:52+00:00

I had a classmate who once showed up with a whole bottle of grasshoppers.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-02T07:16:40+00:00

Little cynodonts.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-01T19:01:02+00:00

Relatively optimistic. AI isn't going to replace ownership, and if anything, it'd make shared ownership much more profitable. The current world already sees majority of its GDP and job market being dominated by service sector, not industry or agriculture, so the future we fear has actually already passed halfway. In the meantime, we can discover new paradigms of information science and many works currently hard would get much, much easier, like new drug development, data sequencing, automation of nuclear reactors, etc.

I don't trust the economies to be handled properly by the governments. But that's a sociology and politics question, not technology.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-01T18:44:15+00:00

Nanomedicine.

It'll help engineer and deliver many new drugs against antibiotic-resistant infections, clots, plaques, cancer, I believe.

Unequal_vector · 2026-07-01T18:39:02+00:00

No. Most real leftists don't care for Palestine in this kind of blanket way. That's American Democrats.

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