I live in a red state as well. The reason I'm reluctant to tell people it's going to be okay is because of the police. If they come to Texas and go to a town like Vidor, which was historically a Klan town, they are not safe calling the police for help if they don't visibly 'fit in'. Even when the attitudes of the general public change, and their voting habits change, the small town red state cops will still be small town red state cops.

I should've been more specific, I was thinking more along the lines of carnivorous megafauna that would directly antagonize kangaroos. The camels are an interesting case, but haven't been there long enough to seriously disrupt the ecosystem. Given a few million years, they likely will push the kangaroos out of some prime real estate if left unchecked. Every other part of the world has large hoofed mammals and large cats, and nothing quite like a kangaroo.

Oh, definitely. All the extant bipedal animals are pretty decent at what they do in various ways (the ostrich uses its wings as rudders to steer at high speeds, which is neat). It just seems that large cats are their greatest enemy, and probably a much bigger obstacle to their success than other carnivorans like dogs and bears. Big cats have successfully hunted both apes and flightless birds for millions of years, and would probably give kangaroos a lot of trouble as ambush predators if they ever found their way to Australia.

Relying on the goodwill of red state voters is a dangerous fucking game for LGBTQ people to play. Public approval polls are not an accurate indication of policy.

Bipedal animals that primarily move with their legs are efficient long-distance runners but less nimble than comparable four-legged animals. They do well on open plains, typically. Humans, ostriches, and kangaroos all fall into this category.

These types of open environments can't support as much biomass or biodiversity as, say, forests. So even if there was an equal distribution of forests and plains across the world, the plains could support far fewer species overall and thus there would be fewer species optimized for this type of long-distance running.

And honestly, it's not a terribly effective body plan. A lot of flightless birds go extinct when they come in contact with quadrapedal mammals, from the terror birds of old to modern species that are currently being wiped out by invasive rats and cats in isolated island habitats. Kangaroos survive because they live on the only continent without mammalian megafauna. The only things big enough to regularly threaten them are slow-moving reptiles like monitors and crocs.

Humans are kind of a fluke. We developed tool use before we were fully bipedal, and even with that advantage, our ancestors were preyed upon by big cats and other quadrapedal mammals. The loss of two functional limbs for locomotion is a huge risk, even with tools.

The word was not traditionally used in this way at all. For monarchs, sure. For government positions involving expertise in one particular area? That's a very modern thing.

Wait, he did the N-Strike line too? I knew about Super Soaker, didn't know about the dart blasters. Do you have a link to that?

Edit: So after some reading, it looks like that's not exactly the case. He created the pressurized air blasters (which are basically just the Super Soakers, but shooting darts), but that wasn't N-Strike.

Still, his contributions were priceless and he ended up winning a lawsuit against Hasbro for underpaid royalties. Anyone who gives Hasbro a good kick in the dick is okay in my book.

They produce emissions and there's no way for them to ever not produce emissions. I've worked in the car business, your bullshit isn't working on me.

They picked 2035 based on the advice of climate scientists. Biden's proposal of 2050 is way too late. 2035 is achievable.

You should probably let France and California know, since they are either banning or restricting ICE by 2035.

Ethanol and biodiesel do not solve the global warming problem. They were never a solution, only a temporary relief measure.

It's okay, my cat says they sniff assholes.

If it's any consolation, this ridiculous "people don't matter but dogs do" thing is mostly American and not at all universal. It comes across as trashy as fuck to most other cultures.

Deployed to the shadow realm.

The problem with flat fines is that they disproportionately punish people with less money. Big real estate firms can do a simple cost:benefit to determine if they make more from fees than the pay in court, and continue the practice indefinitely.

On the other hand, fines proportional to the company's net worth? Now we're talking.

As opposed to all the generous landlords who will share it, right?

What, you don't?

You could have googled this in five seconds. You contributed nothing to the conversation.

You're being pedantic and ignoring the fact that if a group in practice behaves a certain way, it doesn't matter what their stated goals are. Their actual behavior overrides that. You're not providing some amazing revelation by saying "actually, not all of them are like that". These motherfuckers were still segregated 50 years after the Civil Rights Act.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna15405618

The masons as a whole, not just the NC chapters, are old white men. They are most definitely racist and exclusionary. Their actions speak louder than their claims.

It's the exact opposite in my opinion. Online groups have the potential to be far more diverse, whereas the masons are predominantly old white men.

It all makes sense now.

It is very different. The stated goals of the organization have nothing to do with gender, but they discriminate based on gender. It's the sort of thing that makes people believe they're full of shit.

Organizations are made of people. Get your revisionist shit out of here.

Tell me that isn't the most dogshit excuse on earth. If it was racially segregated for centuries, would that also be okay?