Poses, mostly.

The thing is that with science we CAN explore how things happen. There isn't really a "why" in evolution though. I mean, there is a why in the proximal sense, but there's no plan. Alleles either propagate in a population or they don't. With good data analysis we can map how that happened, when it happened, and we can postulate and test what causes it to happen.

> “we’re not entirely sure.”

As someone with a moderate biological education I always assume "if the chances of something are low, just remember evolution has a LOT of time and a LOT of DNA replication events to work with" is the answer to weird questions about evolution.

"Shitter's verrrrry clogged."

> Mennonites

There are at least a few Mennonites attending the veterinary school where I work. Women, otherwise honestly I might not have recognized them as such. They show up wearing their home sewn dresses and bonnets, and go to classes in a teaching hospital where they learn about every high-tech treatment that veterinarians now have access to.

Trying to gotcha the Amish when you have a superficial understanding of their beliefs isn't really a useful activity.

Their society has its own sins but they believe technology shouldn't alienate people from community and their heritage. They adopt new ways cautiously and with reservation, for instance, a telephone used to sell crops or to call for aid in an emergency. Using gasoline as needed to aid farming or the household is something they have considered and in some cases accept.

Instead of drive by shootings they throw bees at you.

> "I would be remiss in my duty, if I did not tell you, that the idea of... intercourse - the fact of your firm, young... body... commingling with the... withered flesh... sagging breasts... and flabby b-b-buttocks... makes me want... to vomit."

Yes officer, that one.

> 'Prayer of fear.'

Definitely named by a soldier.

Or just moron.

While my wife has lived in Korea and is familiar with some of the food, we're vegetarian. They might actually take their chances in the storm instead.

There are actually a whole subculture of hobbyists making their own action figures and things like that. They make backboards and packaging for them too, often in the style of retro 80's figures or something.

Usually they're not casting hentai figures for weeaboos to jerk off on, though.

Humiliation.

Indigenous genocide is as American as apple pie.

And you're defending what is, in all likelihood, a case of abuse or neglect in an industry where abuse and neglect are endemic. There are two possibilities: you've worked in an abusive "teen correction" facility and are yourself completely implicated, or you have not and don't understand how corrupt and dangerous they are.

> I'm familiar with the issues often found in residential facilities.

You don't know shit all about the "troubled teen" industry or how it operates. How's that for starters?

Where you work: "a non-hospital facility with a provider agreement with a State Medicaid Agency to provide the inpatient services benefit to Medicaid-eligible individuals under the age of 21"

What this is: "a boarding school for troubled teens"

You don't know what you're talking about.

I's an absolutely lovely painting, with a "sublime" quality if you know what I mean. The spot of light on the player with the mostly-implied ornateness in the shaded background is amazing.

Even so, I instantly thought of this 😄

It was probably a LOT of work fixing that. YATA, OP.

"Relatively minimal".

"The NYMets are my favorite squadron!"

And not to be confused with the Urantia Foundation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urantia_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unarius_Academy_of_Science

No creepy, exploitative compound living? No rampant sexual abuse or taking of multiple wives by a charismatic leader? What kind of cult IS this anyway?

(It's definitely a cult though, and objectively weird. Just sounds relatively harmless)

LOL I just deleted that comment bc I thought nobody was seeing it.

Amazing pic! So nostalgia, wow.