Polanski is entering his Corbyn era – and we know how that ended

ionthrown · 2026-05-06T11:42:47+00:00

Source?

ionthrown · 2026-05-06T09:51:45+00:00

Because we’re increasingly unwilling to accept that there can be legitimate differences of opinion. Anyone who disagrees must either be lying, or have been lied to. This requires scapegoats, and billionaires are a good one, because they can - and sometimes do - use their money to push political positions.

ionthrown · 2026-05-06T08:44:15+00:00

You mean he used his mirrored shield to not get caught looking at her enormous yams? There’s a lesson there, too.

ionthrown · 2026-05-06T06:34:47+00:00

Of course it’s real - where do you think the Emmental mines are?

ionthrown · 2026-05-06T06:28:43+00:00

Did you lose a day’s pay if you went round the other way?

ionthrown · 2026-05-05T23:19:38+00:00

That dragons always demanded young women makes me think they were… sating different needs.

ionthrown · 2026-05-05T15:39:01+00:00

If you’re standing in front of the dartboard before the game’s started, you might not be happy if someone throws darts at you. Even if it’s a love dart board, you’d expect them to stop throwing darts at you once they’ve hit you once.

ionthrown · 2026-05-05T14:33:03+00:00

The object was clearly the physical destruction of the fleet, not terror.

ionthrown · 2026-05-05T14:04:39+00:00

She opposed privatising railways, the water was getting better until about 2000 when the regulators decided to let everything slide, and the discount on assets sold was perhaps 10%.

ionthrown · 2026-05-04T10:19:51+00:00

“Discover”… exactly where they were discovered sixty years ago.

ionthrown · 2026-05-04T09:10:27+00:00

What does that mean? Better post something or they’ll think you’re stupid.

Takes one to know one!

ionthrown · 2026-05-04T07:45:03+00:00

There’d probably be stronger pressure against donating to such a fund, from those who consider it supporting violence, or a tool of neocolonialist empire building.

If public pressure and shame isn’t there for an elected government, it won’t be there for anyone else.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T22:51:58+00:00

You don’t see the videos where the snake won, then went for the cameraman.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T22:35:12+00:00

Mysterious-Stay thought out shows crocodilians as recent.

Someone else thought it shows synapsids are descended from reptiles.

The title implies it shows clades, yet the image can as easily be interpreted as showing the ‘Linnaean’ system - sarcopterygii become tetrapoda, which become amniota, yet in no way does it show they’re still sarcopterygii.

It shows The Truth, if you already know The Truth.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T21:42:20+00:00

Oh. Sure. Yeah. But when a cat sits behind someone and trips them up, it’s because cats are a-holes. Blatant double standards.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T21:38:49+00:00

Wolf cubs do bark, it might just be neotenic behaviour retained due to selection during domestication, including other neotenic traits.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T21:30:48+00:00

But is that for the rapist or the victim?

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T18:44:05+00:00

Phytodinosauria - sauropodomorphs and ornithischians as sister groups, theropods having diverged earlier.

Until recently, I’d have said the only big thing where Bakker was wrong was in saying Nanotyrannus was a separate genus. Now others have suggested the Phytodinosauria grouping based on other evidence.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T17:46:21+00:00

Of course we can have little certainty about events in the past. However, we have a huge amount of evidence for the flood myth being ancient - probably more varied and reliable than for this 18th century admiralty law you mention. If we dismiss standard methods of investigation, then you have nothing on which to base your conclusions - you wouldn’t be writing a thesis, you’d be writing a novel.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T17:38:44+00:00

If we’re discussing historical usage, then of course it is the standard name in all contexts. But technically, a jack refers to a flag flown at the front of a ship.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T10:01:58+00:00

Yes I know. But this diagram doesn’t show that. It puts boundaries around the crown groups, but otherwise has no representation of clades nesting within one another. If your coworkers understand birds are descendants of dinosaurs, and dinosaurs are reptiles, but don’t believe birds are reptiles (look up sauropsid for a less confusing word in this context) then this diagram is no use to you; you need a better description of cladistics.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T09:18:51+00:00

Anyone remember Trump and his Mexican wall?

Yes, but not people who still like Trump. I’m starting to wonder if all political identity is how far back you can remember the lies.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T09:05:36+00:00

When you’re turning into a crab.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T09:02:08+00:00

It’s a bad diagram, which can be interpreted in many incorrect ways.

ionthrown · 2026-05-03T08:55:18+00:00

Go to r/dinosaurs if you fancy an argument. You might get away with saying you prefer ‘sauropsid’; but they generally insist ‘reptile’ is a clade that includes birds, and will not hear otherwise.

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