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 imnotyoo
3 months ago
« keroberos32 : You do know that "amen" means "bring it here" in French, right?
Nope; I never took a French class.

All I knew about the word 'amen' up until about a minute ago was that religious people often use it as a very heart-felt "I agree".
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 maven
3 months ago
« 2manyusernames : ...the great Lazarus Long
And I think Snr Long knows far more than this carping wench.
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 coldbladed
3 months ago
« 2manyusernames : bah,
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

or so says the great Lazarus Long
I'm not sure about planning an invasion or conning a ship but otherwise I'm set. Just don't blame me if my awesome looking house falls down at the first sign of wind.
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 imnotyoo
3 months ago
By the way, I was never taught about evolution in school. Not once. I really wish I had been taught about it, but it's okay, I went to the library and checked out a bunch of books on it after stumbling upon an old National Geographic. The Nat Geo sucked me in and made me curious.
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Plime is a pliable tree of interesting links, cultivated and pruned by everyone. Be sure to read the FAQs, they can be found below among the links to the other categories.

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 maven
3 months ago
That's Kansas for you. Unsurprising.

Bully for Brontosaurus was my first book on evolution. I adored it, scavenged through the library for more.
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 blurmore
3 months ago
uh...Was number 4 really necessary? Are there really males who don't realize this?? Doesn't this seem a little personal, like she is bitter that she gave up some butt to a guy that complained? Could it be possible that she is the ONLY woman in the world who actually enjoys buttsecks, but is bitter because of this misconception? Wha??
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 chinook
3 months ago
While I can agree with pretty much all she has to say,
It's 2008. We have fossils. We have carbon dating. Get a clue!
Carbon dating isn't used on most fossils, as the half life of 14C is a modest ~5730 years, so after about nine half-lives (in the vicinity of 50 000a) there's not enough carbon left to use. Just to be a science nerd and point that out.
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