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  • I think that's still small talk either way tho? The fact that you launch into some part of your day doesn't change that it's gauging your mood on her end. You could just as easily answered: "Snoozefest, how about your day?" or "Nightmarish headache from start to end, hold me". See how these are all logical answers that would (I hope) evoke a different response from your partner?

  • Is or is not talking about how your days went considered small talk? I literally don't know now. I'd say it's small talk.

    Small talk is a way to gauge someone's mood before going for the bigger discussions

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • I see, understandable. This was also a Baldur's Gate 3 joke because a character named Auntie Ethel makes multiple threats, including sucking the marrow from your bones and pulling your spine out your arsehole.