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  • The fact that there are very few fossils of soft bodied creatures kinda misses the point.

    All the evolutionary diversity of molluscs is still alive. Squids, nautiluses, cuttlefish, snails slugs.

    What’s the hypothesis here? An alien meteorite landed with 800 types of cephalopod, that just by chance share 97% of their DNA with slugs and snails that already existed on Earth?








  • All the people saying mandatory voting is bad are misinformed. It is essential for democracy, and should be applied everywhere.

    Australia has mandatory voter turnout, but you do not need to submit a vote. You just need to show up on polling day.

    Everyone has political interests and needs to be politically represented, but some people are too tired after work to take themselves to the polling centre. Others are incarcerated. If anything, those people are more in need of political representatives.

    American conservatives spend billions trying to prevent poor overworked people from reaching polling places or exercising their right to vote. Mandatory voting prevents that.

    Make no mistake, Australian democracy is healtheir than whatever clusterfuck in going on in the US.