This b must be confused at why no flowers and eggs r so small

We have system admins with access to a shit ton of sensitive data who fell victim to this. It's really simple - assume every email you get is malicious unless you 100% know who it's coming from. Too often people click a link in an email to see if it's legit or not. By the time you click that link, it may be too late.

Sorry, I am talking about the Hebrew Bible. I am not too familiar with the Christian Bible. The poster to whom I was replying was painting with a broad brush "all" religions and specifically included Judaism. My point is that religions are not one monolith.

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You pick something other than 04/20/1969?

First of all how is the age confirmed? I've never used TikTok or most social media but can't you just say your birthday is 1/1/1970 when you set it up? And second, how does the minor account under 13 even get linked to a guardian? Does the guardian set the passcode when the account is made and their kid brings the phone over? Couldn't the kid just make up their own pretending they're a guardian?

I'm also slightly concerned about how many adults, especially ones who dgaf about their preteens on TikTok, use one pin for everything. It seems like a great data point to gather if you want to add to your database tracking anyone anyway anywhere you can.

Jesus, as an American, I don't know how to deal with all the accountability shown in this tragedy so far.

He'll save children but not the British children.

A prehistoric insect on Arkansas? That’s just one of the Huckabees.

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He'll kick you apart!

Damn Arkansas really is trying to turn the clocks back

Coincidence or the universe trying to tell humanity itself something.

Was it really a Jurassic-era insect or just your average Walmart shopper?

>There is nothing Biblical about saying women can't have authority or should be subservient to men.

"I do not let women teach men or have authority over them. Let them listen quietly." 1 Timothy 2:12

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Various reasons.

Speaking specifically of insects -- the largest insects lived during the Carboniferous and early Permian. This is due to two reason. One is that oxygen content in the air was higher back then. Insects do not really have an advanced respiratory system. The second reason why insects grew to such large sizes during that time is because they lacked predators. They were the predators. Studying the history of insect sizes, we can see that the evolution of birds during the late Jurassic disrupts the relation between insect sizes and oxygen content. Even during times of rising oxygen, insect sizes remain smaller because when such a specialised group of insect hunters exists, being big isn't an advantage.

Now onto other creatures. Humans right now are bigger than we've ever been in our evolutionary history. We evolved from really tiny proto-primates, the size of squirrels. If we are looking just at our evolutionary history, we've grown tall. That said, there are limiting factors to being tall too in terms of physical health and resources needed. Humans are not very likely to grow much taller, because there is no real evolutionary pressure for us to do so. Often times in history when creatures have grown large, it was either to become a more efficient predator, or to become too big to be preyed on. But neither of those things really apply to us right now. We've shaped an environment in which our size doesn't really contribute much to our evolutionary success.

Now, as for other animals -- The age of dinosaurs really speaks to the imagination in terms of the size of creatures, but actually the largest creature to ever exist lives right now. In the ocean. The Blue Whale is the biggest thing that has ever existed on Earth. As for land animal sizes, Dinosaurs had some advantages that allowed them to grow that big -- hollow bones and airsacks means they were able to reduce their weight even when growing to enormous sizes. They still weighed massive amounts, but nothing like what any other animal would've weighted if you had sized them up to that size.

Right now, we do not have much surviving mega-fauna. And to be blunt, the reason for that is us. We are destroying the natural environment at a huge rate. While the change in climate at the end of the ice age had an effect on animal sizes (or more accurately, the extinction of several huge, cold-weather adapted animals), the way we are living now pretty much ensures that nothing as big as the animals that have once lived (except, again, the Blue Whale in the ocean, and we are threatening them too) is going to evolve again as long as we keep acting as we do. Being huge takes a lot of natural resources, and we aren't leaving any for anything but ourselves.

Thanks for correcting me, I wasn't sure on the specifics, I knew it was related to oxygen in a way. I appreciate the explanation that's really interesting.

I guess I was just a little amused by the implication of Giant Humans or something from the initial comment lol. Like no, we weren't 10 feet tall humans years ago, I'm pretty sure that's confirmed.

Yep, I've had my fair share of amphibian piss attacks over the years. Frogs, salamanders, toads, newts. I wouldn't pick them up if they'd stop getting into weird unsafe places.

They always do that lol, like their way of saying ello.

I gave a list of things that do not happen in Indonesia, that are perhaps specific to certain cultures in the Middle East and South Asia. However, radicalization and violence are not exclusive to those regions. There have been a series of terrorist attacks in Indonesia targeting westerners, and militant Muslim groups in the Philippines have kidnapped and actually beheaded western hostages. They do all of this in the name of Islam, and it’s not because America bombs their countries. They may have genuine grievances against the West, who have supported anti-Communist dictatorships in the past, but you cannot draw a straight line from the West’s influence to these barbaric acts of violence, as if the militant terrorist groupe have no choice but to kill people and cut their heads off.

The Christian world has indeed committed barbarities (don’t mention the Crusades - the Muslim world started that shit - look it up), but we in the West have moved past that ever since the Protestant Reformation (again, look it up) and the de-legitimization of clerical authority along with the emphasis on the New Testament, in particular the Sermon on the Mount. There has been no Reformation in Islam. They still hold to the exact word of the Quran, written over 14 centuries ago and held to be the inerrant and final revelation of God, and the Hadith, which comprise the opinions of the Prophet and therefore subject to his whims and desires, which instruct them to slay unbelievers wherever they are found, take the women of the enemy as sex slaves if they happen to be virgins, treat the testimony and rights of inheritance of women as subordinate to those of men, and prescribe vicious punishments up to and including death for apostasy (a victimless crime if ever there was one, and a thought crime for that matter!). Saudi Arabia did not allow women to drive until incredibly recently, and they behead people for witchcraft, which is a completely imaginary crime since witches, you know, don’t exist. These are not the policies of radicals. These are the proclamations of the Saudi government, that is, the Royal Family, who incidentally consider themselves the guardians of Islam and allies of the West. Polls taken across the Muslim world, encompassing a wide cross-section of those societies, including Muslims living in the West, demonstrate that the vast, vast majority of Muslims condemn homosexuality and consider death the appropriate punishment for renouncing Islam. If an entire society is “radicalized” then the word has no meaning. If individual Muslims reject the majority opinions of their co-religionists, then it is just as probably due to the influence of Western, humanist values.

I will say it again: the West is no longer to blame for the barbarities, iniquities, and outrages against basic human rights within the Muslim world. It is a civil war within Islam, which occasionally spills over into our sphere. The world is a much more complex place than you seem to realise. It is not a simple matter of blaming the West for the inability (or unwillingness) of Middle Eastern and African societies to clean up their own messes. We can help, but they have to take the lead.

Killing young women for not keeping their hair covered? That is 100% on them, not us.

That's not exactly correct.

Only insect size correlates to oxygen content in the air due to the manner in which they breathe. However, oxygen content is not the only limiting factor in size. The Carboniferous and early Permian are when insects sizes maxed out. This is before the age of the Dinosaurs (who didn't start appearing until the late Triassic). Up to this point, insect sizes and oxygen content in the air is well correlated.

This changes during the Jurassic. Insect sizes dropped after the Permian when the oxygen content in the air dropped low. However, even when the oxygen content in the air started increasing again, insect sizes continued to diminish in size. Reason? Birds had started to evolve. With birds now dominating the air, and in many cases, preying on insects, being large no longer held the same advantages as it once did.

And again, this is just for insects. Other terrestial animals, such as dinosaurs or mammals were never limited in size by oxygen content. That's because we have a far more efficient way of breathing than insects do.

Yea, it would make me walk 20 feet around it. Then my eyes would be tuned to the floor the entire time making sure there were no more. That is until I walk into someone.....

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