Yeah exactly.

I guess the implication of my argument would be that you couldn’t have a nonpolitically motivated assassination of a politician unless the motivations were purely on a personal level, and in that case we’d just call it a murder anyways, not an assassination.

It’d make the whole concept of a “nonpolitical motivated assassination” an oxymoron, and I’m not sure that makes much sense either.

I’m not entirely sure this reasoning makes sense. Take, for example, a politician that is only motivated to be in politics because he wants fame. Does this mean that none of his actions are politically motivated because his true motives are apolitical?

It seems to me that the act of choosing a political target, in and of itself, is a political motivation, as the political landscape has been the main informant of their decision.

I can see some merit to your argument, though, and perhaps I’m being overly focused on semantics?

This is also just a cutesy hand sign for “fox” in Japan, with zero alt-right symbolism. Foxes are a significant part of the mythology there, and there are all sorts of tales about leaving food for fox spirits to bring good fortune. There’s even a prominent vTuber who’s regularly depicted making the sign.

I wish these alt-right fuckwads would stop trying to wreck shit for the rest of the world.

Did you watch the entire debate, or just the highlights? I don’t think acknowledging he was completely cogent for 99.9% of it is minimizing anything, but that’s not part of the narrative the media are pushing.

I don’t particularly like Biden, but my main concern at this point is keeping Trump out by any means necessary. Sacking the incumbent four months prior to the election is a dangerous gamble, especially so if he isn’t willing to step down himself.

In any case, it looks like it’s going to have to happen now regardless, but I sincerely believe it’s more because of the media’s irresponsible coverage than any actual substantive issue.

Sorry, old man has senior’s moment is a man bites dog story? I don’t buy it.

It almost feels like the MSM are actively trying to feed trump the win, or push Biden out at the very least. After the debate they absolutely could have dedicated as much time to deconstructing Trump lies as they did to “Biden old”.

They’re certainly critical of one of the two geriatrics, but for some reason the lying one gets a pass… 🤔

The alt-right supports animal abuse you say? People incapable of empathy for human animals also lack empathy for other animals you say? Shocking. Absolutely shocking.

He’s like a human collection of the worst of 4chan.

Presumably you meant: “Bribe someone for 1/1000th the cost.”

“We take a zero tolerance [approach] to bladed articles in public, and Bray has fallen afoul of this."

Come on, this is ridiculous. Can I carry a chisel? A utility knife? An ice skate? A screwdriver? A lawnmower? A stirrup hoe? Those are all bladed articles. This is on the level of what this man did.

Give him a fine and move on.

Typical Texas L.

Did you read the paper from my 2nd link? There seems to be a growing body of evidence that suggests that is indeed possible:

Similar to the increase in the prevalence of persistent median arteries of the forearms, the prevalence of other anatomical features such as spina bifida occulta (Henneberg & Henneberg 1999; Solomon et al., 2009; Lee et al., 2010), tarsal coalitions (Solomon et al., 2003) and fabella (Berthaume et al., 2019) has increased over the last 2–3 centuries. Evidence indicates that changes in the natural selection pressures acting on these specific anatomical features could have caused microevolutionary processes, leading to the observed increases in prevalence rates (Henneberg and Henneberg 1999; Solomon et al., 2009; Lee et al., 2010; Rühli and Henneberg, 2013; Berthaume et al., 2019).

Obviously actual research would have to be done to confirm or deny it in this case, and I probably should have stated my original thought a bit more skeptically.

I was reading over the paper and found the source of that particular usage:

Furthermore, in a study by Henneberg and George (1995; Am J Phys Anthropol 96, 329–334), has suggested that increasing prevalence of the median artery during the 20th century was a ‘possible secular trend’.

LOL. I kinda want to follow that citation for the full quote.

Edit: I found the original source that gives some further context:

The occurrence in historical times of changes in human body size and in the timing of events in postnatal development, such as, for instance, sexual maturation, is well known and documented. Such changes occurring from century to century or decade to decade are known as “secular trends.”

So I guess it’s actually domain specific jargon.

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Seriously. I’ve seen letter openers more threatening than that “sword”. Was it dumb? Sure. Does he deserve a slap the wrist, absolutely. But prison?? No way. What the actual fuck?

I’m not sure you’re understanding what I’m laying down. If all previously extra-judicial actions are now potentially on the table, that opens new avenues for changing the members of SCOTUS.

Except that we know for a fact the refs are incredibly biased against specifically one team.

The ref’s just gave either team the power to choose new refs that are biased against the other team.

Except it does. Microevolutions can absolutely occur on time frames of under a hundred years.

https://news.sky.com/story/human-microevolution-sees-more-people-born-without-wisdom-teeth-and-an-extra-artery-12099689

https://www.sci.news/biology/median-artery-08939.html

I mean, it makes sense. With widespread adoption of vision correction, there’s no longer an evolutionary advantage to having naturally good vision.

My better judgement is wrestling with my morbid curiosity, but what on earth is that sign: “BLEACH BLONDE BAD BUILT BUTCH BODY”