[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 0 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)
  • Support for slavery before the Civil War

  • Carter’s airline deregulation

  • Clinton’s welfare “reform” and NAFTA

  • Obama’s finance sector bailout

  • Biden blocking a national rail strike

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Biden has appointed three Latinos to his Cabinet, and Obama had five. (Trump’s previous administration had one—the Secretary of Labor.)

I think the controversy with Rubio isn’t that he’s Latino, it’s that he advocates for a more interventionist foreign policy.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

There was a last major migration out of Africa starting around 70–50,000 years ago that coincides with both the disappearance of Neanderthals and Denisovans, and with the appearance of representational art. Earlier Neanderthals made artistic crafts like shell jewelry, but it wasn’t representational.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Prehistoric people leaving things in caves is practically the only way we still know about them, but that doesn’t mean humans normally hung out in caves as a permanent lifestyle. We have evidence of people making wooden structures in Africa long before the first cave paintings—and compared to structures, caves would have been cold and dark, unlikely to be conveniently located, and contested for by cave-adapted animals.

It’s because the caves were so shitty that subsequent people left them untouched for tens of thousands of years.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Are you talking about someone who’s deliberately claiming to have experienced something they only read about, or someone who’s genuinely uncertain of their own memories?

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Legally, yes. (But of course, the Supreme Court has turned interpreting the Constitution into a game of Calvinball.)

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Is it part of the joke that the logo for “Global Tetrahedron” is actually a dodecahedron?

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

If nothing else, it’s diverting views and revenue from whatever genuine right-wing media they’d be watching otherwise.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

If it’s really just a matter of too many candidates, could they increase the number of signatures needed to get on the ballot?

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

My city (Oakland) has ranked-choice voting for mayor and city council, and (as far as I’m aware) doesn’t have a similar issue with under-voting.

Was there another factor besides the number of candidates on the ballot (e.g., no candidate statements in voter guides, or an ad campaign against ranked voting)?

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

If they genuinely don’t have a preference, is it a bad thing if they refrain from effectively voting at random?

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago

If Trump tried to run for a third term, could Obama run against him?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

To clarify: I’m not suggesting animals think all sounds are songs—just that songbirds and humans are the only common animals that combine sounds into arbitrary sequences where each individual sound doesn’t have a single fixed meaning.

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