Sharkopath posted:

There are dinosaur specimens described on only very partial pieces of skeletons, but scientists are able to make educated conjecture on whether it is a new species or not by comparing it to similar fossils we have, usually because those fossils usually aren't just a jawbone, it's pieces of jawbone, some of the hip and then teeth and such. If they are similar enough to another species it's easy enough to extrapolate they belonged to a similar animal.

If they are too different from known fossils but still have the traits of a certain group it's usually just illustrated as one until we have more complete evidence to work from, placeholder reconstructions.

Extrapolation isn't guesswork

Rookersh posted:

Seattle. Minimum was $9, now $12 ( will be $15 soon. ). You average about $5 more per day in tips ( honestly more if you work in a good shop, but I'm counting bad shops here. ).

Servers get an even better deal, and usually average between $8-$12 a day in tips on top of their wages.

The one bartender I actually know that lives here averages $30ish, and she's only been at it for two years. But that has huge burnout just due to being a bartender.

It HEAVILY depends on the state/area though. As Endorph said, it might not be quite the way out for some thanks to lovely bosses doing illegal poo poo. Also quite a few states allow businesses to pay their employees up to minimum counting tips which doesn't allow the gain.

The irony is the people I work with are all severe alcoholics, so while they are making the $18-$25 range, they still can't pay rent because they spend so much of it on booze and drugs. Same with all the servers I know. Getting livable wages per paycheck doesn't seem to stop people from living beyond their means very well.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM posted:

How much is that Obama getting older vs being president?

Trevor Hale posted:

This is not true. A bunch of buildings have their own ZIP code.

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Its also worth noting that Carly Fiorina is depicted as a man to make her seem strong and Biden is depicted as a woman to make him seem weak

RevKrule posted:

Diamond Joe has weighed in about the PTSD comments and to say he's not pleased is an understatement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS0nZt1Rtps

Built 4 Cuban Linux posted:

He said 20 suicides a month and then immediately followed by calling Trump uninformed. It's 22 per DAY.

bird cooch posted:

Im a vet with friends who have killed themselves and I had too look it up to belive it.


"In 2013, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs released a study that covered suicides from 1999 to 2010, which showed that roughly 22 veterans were committing suicide per day, or one every 65 minutes."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_veteran_suicide

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

My totally crazy idea is to fund VA armories. If you're a veteran and you have a gun, you're entitled to a secure gun locker to store any personally owned firearms, no questions asked.

The only catch is that once you store one, you have to schedule an appointment no less than one week in advance to get them back out.

This of course doesn't fix everything, but suicide is an impulsive act. This buys people time.

sharkbomb posted:

No one would use a community armory-- the point of having a firearm in your home (for a lot of people) is that it is readily available if some crazy poo poo goes down in an emergency. Just spitballing, I'm not a gun owner.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

The one in the picture, or the one I had?
Because I'm open to it being bad, but worst ever?

Quantum Jazz posted:

M

NikkolasKing posted:

I personally believe Hillary is merely ambitious but even if she truly does care about some of the issues she champions, her campaign didn't do her any favors by playing up the "sex card." A lot of women probably opposed Hillary for the simple fact they were expected to vote for a woman. "Break through that glass ceiling and gently caress the actual issues you care about."

NikkolasKing posted:

I said I respected him for trying to fight the Religious Right.


You don't remember what Albright said?

And it isn't hard to find women who were voting for Bernie and how shocked it made Hillary's campaign. There are several easily found articles on the subject.

VikingofRock posted:

While we are on the topic of respectable republicans, is there any reason George H.W. Bush is terrible? He's one of the first people to come to mind when I thought about the question.

My other nominee for this is Ainsley Hayes.

Zerilan posted:

Right, Hillary as Secretary of State is the reason Trans people are able to put their preferred gender on passports without needing surgery first, and the UN stating that "LBGT rights are human rights."

NikkolasKing posted:

I'm gonna go watch The Choice now like was recommended to me. It looks interesting but it's long and I guess I'll be gone a while. Thank you for not all jumping down my throat. I don't mind being corrected when I'm wrong but dogpiling turns everyone off I think, right or wrong.

Artificer posted:

Please explain your thought process where you stated that you don't like Hillary and hoped that Assange had a bomb to drop on her reputation, and yet at the same time you want the best for your gay/transgender friends.

Artificer posted:

Someone else posted that he was posting in good faith. He might be...terribly misinformed. But let's see if he can walk us through his thought process.

Artificer posted:

Edit: I don't hold a lot of confidence that he isn't a troll, but sure let's give this one thing a shot.

Stereotype posted:

I think Libya is actually the shining moment of Obama/Clinton foreign policy. If we were as isolationist as Johnson or Trump wants to be there would be a massacre worse than that in Syria and we'd still have Gaddafi. If we were more interventionist like Bush 2 we would have another thousand dead GIs and a government that was being constantly undermined and attacked for being created by the US government.

It wasn't a good situation, there weren't any perfect solutions, but the only thing most people remember is that four Americans died in a wild feverish conspiracy.

Roland Jones posted:

I think most Bernie or Bust people were anti-establishment rather than leftist, a few (major assholes and hypocrites) aside. And, again, I think a lot probably cooled off since the primary ended. At the least, I did, and while I wasn't full Bernie or Bust I, as stated before, was considering not voting since my state's guaranteed blue anyway, before I realized that that was dumb and my vote isn't sacred or special or anything.

Any Bernie supporters who really are leftists and aren't idiots are still voting Hillary, even if it may have taken them a little while to calm down after the primary. The ones who aren't weren't leftist to begin with, and/or are huge misogynists. Which, well. '08 saw things like HillaryIs44, and according to polls and whatnot fewer Bernie supporters have gone Trump compared to '08 Hillary supporters going McCain. It's not that bad, it's just that the assholes are loud and annoying and the ones who aren't terrible are already boosting Hillary or just staying quiet, so you notice them more and remember them after the fact.

NikkolasKing posted:

Let me ask you this. If Trump became president, do I genuinely need to worry for the safety of my gay friends? I know some of you are saying I'm a troll but if there is a real chance the alarmism about Trump is genuine, I will absolutely make sure to vote for Clinton. My word may not be much but I mean it.

Instant Sunrise posted:

There's a decent chance that HB2, RFRA or a similar law is going to end up before the supreme court in the next few years. There's also employment protections for trans people that are in a weird legal gray area after Macy v. Holder and PriceWaterhouse v. Hopkins which has a non-zero chance of a case ending up in the supreme court.

so yes it's important.

Majorian posted:

That's really what it is. If you go back and look at the things Bernie said, he didn't do much to rile the crazy Clinton-haters up. His criticisms of her were pretty lukewarm overall. The people who are still virulently Bernie-or-Bust are, for the most part, just nutballs who hate Clinton.

Instant Sunrise posted:

lambda legal and transgender law center have yeah

Majorian posted:

Which is amazing, because if anyone deserves that, it's Tipper Gore.

Instant Sunrise posted:

dubya of all people has mellowed on lgbt issues, and even offered to officiate a gay wedding.

Nichael posted:

he or she

Star Man posted:

Anyone who turned eighteen this year was born in the same year that the Lewinsky scandal broke.

gently caress, I was in fifth grade when that happened.

FilthyImp posted:

Alternately, he's shrewd enough to realize his caricature of "dumb bumbling buffoon puppeteered by Emperor Palpatine" grants him enough folksy cover to be let off the hook as long as he does a bunch of "Normal guy" poo poo.

Like paint bad pictures.

Neo_Crimson posted:

Elementary school maybe, but pretty much every middle school kid knows what a blowjob is, and probably giggling their asses off.

Queering Wheel posted:

I like how they made the Clinton text crooked. Very subtle.

Star Man posted:

Oi. I was thirteen when Dubya was elected and I have no memory about the Clinton administration aside from the 1996 election and the Lewinsky scandal.


I'm two or three years younger than you are and I was the last kid on earth to finally understand why I was always laughed at for answering "no" to the question "are you a virgin?" in 1996.

Covok posted:

What America needs is mass education reform and the death of all those hyper conservative local stations spewing propaganda as fact.

Young Freud posted:

I believe that we would have destroyed Syria's remaining air power installed a no-fly zone after Ghouta and bomb ISIS if Hillary was still Secretary of State. It would have been better than sit back and let ISIS fester and then have the Russians come in and control the narrative. Of course, it's suspected that the reason we didn't go after Assad following Ghouta was because of the Iran nuclear deal, but, I don't know, it continually feels like that was the moment of truth in Syria and that it wouldn't have gotten as bad as it is now and we blew it.


Part of me hopes that post-Ailes will turn into this. The Murdochs sees the openly conservative brand as a loser and retools it into a tabloid cable news station.

Bastard Tetris posted:

http://themonocle.com

Oh no, not a steakhouse!

Dr. Arbitrary posted: