I understand quite well how monophyletic clades work and I hope you understand that they are a human construct. That doesn’t mean they are wrong or bad or something, but the question you are ignoring is: Who decides what the stem dinosaur is and would the decision be the same if they know about pterosaurs? Maybe but maybe not. Now that decision is made and set in stone, there is no going back but “dinosaur” and “ornithodiran” are just words that would be swopped (again, not gonna happen anymore)

Yes, dinosaurs are defined as all descents of the last common ancestor of [blank] and [blank].

I don’t remember what the blanks were but I’m sure they would have included pterosaurs if they knew about them back than

Maybe they spoke German but with other words for dinosaurs?

They are the direct sister group. It’s kind of a definition thing. People defined dinosaurs before pterosaurs were known so they were not included

Always make falsifiable predictions and make sure they will not be falsified

Wholesome

I moved to Hessen because my heart told me to do it in morse code

True. Every physical condition has a psychological root

Does she ever admit that? Because that would cause a paradox

My greatest fear would be to slide and roll down and I would try to get up as quickly as possible out of anxiety but to each their own I guess

If I remember correctly, the very first fade out was at a live performance included the orchestra to physically leave the room

Carpet your for only $0.99 whole

I will never vote Democrats!

Since I do not intend to move to the US but I vote the lesser of several evils here in Europe

citrule

No, merge the 8h work with the 8h sleep. Gives you: 8h sleep at work/8h participate in democratic structures and 8h free time, to modify SRSLY WRONG’s 4/4/4 proposal

No, I wasn’t ironic. It’s not wrong to think of these dilemmas, paradoxes and ideas as memes. Memes are not only pictures

I love how you call them memes. These are things philosophers talked about long before the word meme had its modern day meaning, even before it was coined in the first place. But in a way, yes, they are all memes

When I’m talking about the government, I’m not talking about some shadow government like the Bundesregierung of German or the president of the US. I’m talking about the deep state government

Are you implying that pandemics are created by the government and spread by governmental drones?

Humans: colonize the global south
Also humans: live in the global south

We should stop thinking about humans, bacteria and viruses as monoliths