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  • On trees...

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  • Yea, the evolution of vascularity in plants let them get off the ground in the first place (meaning being taller than a few inches). Vascularity is the first big jump plants made after leaving the water. From there, being taller means outcompeting your neighbors and spreading your babies further. When you have that double whammy of more food + more babies, you get a selective pressure for taller that never really goes away. This is why multiple families have species that have arborized and have continuously done so over their evolutionary history. If the niche is empty, something will jump into it, often sooner rather than later (on a deep time scale) which is basically the whole idea of convergent evolution as a whole.

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  • Kinda! But the shell isn't what the carcinization memes are referring to. I'd say the biggest part of carcinization is the loss of crustacean tails. Basically every false crab is in the process of losing their tail in favor of a rounder body plan

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  • I wasn't being specific enough. Cell walls in plants are composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Lignin IS one of the structural polymers that plants produce, and yea, every single vascular plant has and uses lignin to provide structure. Iirc its a polymer produced by every plant, including mosses and other nonvascular plants, it's just not used to the same extent.

  • Trump State Department official has called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’

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  • So I know you're joking but I want to make the point so there's no mistake from you or anyone scrolling by in what this guy means.

    He means black people. Like the whole of this statement is targeted at black people in the US. Dude is a hard-r neonazi.

  • Into the meat grinder!

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  • Iirc they make jokes about sponges regenerating multiple times. Stephen Hillenburg was a marine biologist and educator, which is what led him into making SpongeBob.

  • Into the meat grinder!

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  • Animals are members of kingdom Animalia. One of the unify features of this kingdom is multicellularity. Slime molds are members of the mostly-single-celled protists and they themselves are some of the most complex single celled organisms. Sponges, being very basal animals, are one of the phyla that retains a high degree of regenerative ability that simplicity facilitates while being very much a multicellular organism with all the organization that comes with.

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  • Except clubmoss isn't moss iirc? They're vascular and more of a fern than moss.

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  • As far as they are all vascular plants, but that's like, basically everything that isn't moss iirc.

    The evolution of wood is common because it's simple for cellulose to get denser in response to a need to grow taller to outcompete your neighbors.

  • 'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court

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  • We do, supreme judicial authority is given to the SC in article 3 of the Constitution. This person you're replying to isn't being very clear that the explicit power to overturn laws was established in Marbury v Madison.

    This power is called Judicial Review and it was understood to be the way the SC is supposed to work. A Federalist power grab by John Adams forced the SC to be explicit and say "we can overturn laws because that's the only way the SC is coequal to the other branches".

    In other words, Judicial Review was always an IMPLIED POWER of the court, but a court case made them spell it out.

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    Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer

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  • Bro take your meds and calm down. This type of post is just exhausting. Everyone down votes when they get tired of the rapid fire of factoids and can't finish a third of what you've written.

  • A family of 5 downsized to a one-bedroom apartment to escape feeling 'house poor.' Saving money hasn't been the only benefit.

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  • In the US during the Great Depression, rich people would have "hard times parties" where they were all expected to dress like hobos (the common name for rail-riders and other migrant workers, not used as a derogatory insult to the homeless) and served intentionally cheap (but still often fresher than what the actual homeless were eating) stew.

  • Listen and

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  • All the comments here jumping to talk about how wrong this is, I gotta ask: haven't you seen a bad movie?

    Art films or blockbusters (or rather, attempts at blockbusters), plenty of movies just suck. Many bad movies will have endless amounts of people trying to change the narrative with the words on the right column.

  • Listen and

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  • Or maybe all art house films get described this way when, like any other art form, plenty of them just suck.

    Sometimes a movie just sucks and won't accept that it sucks.

  • Love this

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  • Yea, needs a new upswing at 70 for "living alone" like, it's potentially sad, but just being able to live on your own gets more impressive the older someone is

  • We don't do that here ✋

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  • Also we subscribe to them, so they're subs just as easily as comms. I never use subreddit or /r/ because those don't belong here, but you can easily replace /r/ with /c/.

  • Officials Are Denied Access to Library of Congress After Trump Names New Boss

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  • They ARE a govt official tho, which is really only as far as the definition differentiate iirc. It's just the librarians at The Library of Congress actually understand the separation of powers. So the title really should read something more like this

    "Overreaching Deputy AG and accompanying goons barred access to Library of Congress"

    Just gotta be specific about what part of the govt these shitheads work for

  • Saudi Arabia rolls out customized mobile McDonald's for Trump visit

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  • Trump actually loves it, not a joke. He's obsessed because, for a long time, fast food was cleaner. Unfortunately Trump's image of McDonald's and other fast food is stuck in 1960

  • Finding out how much your boss cares

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  • A doctor's note very well could be how it works in the US, none of us know because we'd be bankrupted by going to a doctor.

  • Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water

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  • Wouldn't be surprised if it was supposed to be "hike day with grandpa!" with no mention of a swim and then it turns out reporters are there as there's a political stunt happening. Wouldn't be surprised if mom/dad are off camera telling them not to get their face wet.