I have zero clue what I am talking about, so everything I’m about to say is just stream of consciousness and shouldn’t be read as some academic or well informed insight. Most practicing Catholics I know that aren’t in the clergy themselves are more traditionalist and radical these days. It also doesn’t surprise me that a number of Catholics seek to establish a strain of radicalism in the face of a growing Christian orthodoxy. It seemed the last decade or two, the Catholic Church felt pressure from a more progressive world and attempted to adapt to ensure long term relevancy, but now Christian Orthodoxy is growing, and the social landscape among believers and young Catholics is generally more conservative, so the pressure is now on from the other side.

The state of WV is full of it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to change the votes or general attitudes of many mountaineers and their politics.

R.B.'s got the meats, as they say.

Molly did an interview about the Bund on the Majority Report some weeks (months?) ago, and yeah, definitely a ‘best of’ interview. Highly recommend to listen if you aren’t sure you’re going to read her whole book.

Had to do a similar repair on the control board for my dryer last year. Or was it two years ago?

Nah man, you have to ask. What are you truly risking if you do? The world where you admit yours and everyone else’s spirit is raped? It really does smell like shit in here, doesn’t it?

I’m honestly surprised this isn’t better understood in this community, at least as an approach to the tree of life system of classification, with or without its merits. I didn’t go to college and went to public school that suppressed science education, but this was how I came to understand evolution and that all types of life had a universal common ancestor.

I’m not speaking to the accuracy of the meme, and the science community at large has its criticisms of cladistics, but I’m not sure I would define this as a problem of biology or language, or a problem at all. It is the most common method of evolutionary classification at this time.

Keep in mind I’m a blue collar worker on my lunch break and not a scientist nor college educated. I just like to learn in my free time about a bunch of stuff.

It’s cladistics.

“Theoretically, a last common ancestor and all its descendants constitute a (minimal) clade. Importantly, all descendants stay in their overarching ancestral clade. For example, if the terms worms or fishes were used within a strict cladistic framework, these terms would include humans.”

Insane that a misdemeanor possession charge I got nearly twenty years ago for a bit of weed in my pocket, despite having been expunged, can still be found on a county records search, and yet we have these violent insurrectionist treasonous fucks walking free, now with records wiped clean.

I share the name of a child murderer. They aren’t super duper famous, but when you look up my first and last name in a search, they are the only thing to pop up unless you really get specific to me. I have had people that were strangers to me hear my name on a roll call do a thorough look at me, then bring it up when they are relieved to see I am not that person. I think providing more details here would doxx me.

And you know you have a great uncle when your grandparent has a brother.