Evolution being slow is a good thing. Trying to shortcut it would just be a more direct way to destroy the species. Also a great example of the kind of thing I'm referring to.
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Yeah, I've wondered if it's something like that. Seems like a fairly easy trap to fall into, but hard to say for sure with only our singular reference point.
If you're not going to make a point related to the comment you responded to, why comment?
Not remotely related to what they said.
Using the second definition, I'd still clarify as "false rhetoric" or something. Maybe that's just me shrug
Had to look it up myself. I saw both, but went with the hyphen for clarity.
Is everybody else using 'rhetoric' wrong or am I the one off base? Afaik, it just means 'speech', or maybe 'eloquence' in certain contexts, but I've never seen it used to mean 'lie' until jd opened his mouth and everybody else followed along.
Just to clarify, 50,000 years is 50 millennia. If you meant millions if years, the term for that is mega-anna. And eons for billions.
Other than that, I more or less agree. Humans have developed technologically much faster than we've been able to evolve/adapt to the changes we're creating, and the stress from that is growing. Occasionally I wonder if it'll prove too much for us in the end.
35% is of eligible voters, not of the vote. Trump got 47% of the vote in 2020.
Broodrage Mycoid {3}{B}
Creature — Fungus
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, create a 1/1 black Fungus creature token with “This creature can’t block.” (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
As the massive mycoids known as rage titans charge into battle, lesser ones swarm in their wake, gobbling up any survivors.
4/3
Idol of the Deep King {2}{R}
Artifact
Flash
When Idol of the Deep King enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to any target.
Craft with artifact {2}{R} ({2}{R}, Exile this artifact, Exile another artifact you control or an artifact card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner’s control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
Sovereign's Macuahuitl
(Color Indicator: Red)
Artifact — Equipment
When Sovereign’s Macuahuitl enters the battlefield, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Chart a Course {1}{U}
Sorcery
Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.
As the River Heralds began to decipher the ancient map, they were staggered by the vastness of the world-within-the-world that it revealed.
Treasure Map {2}
Artifact
{1}, {T}: Scry 1. Put a landmark counter on Treasure Map. Then if there are three or more landmark counters on it, remove those counters, transform Treasure Map, and create three Treasure tokens. (They’re artifacts with “{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”)
Treasure Cove
Land
(Transforms from Treasure Map.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a Treasure: Draw a card.
Bartolomé del Presidio {W}{B}
Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight
Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bartolomé del Presidio.
“Bless this sinner, who sacrificed his blood so that I may live.”
2/1
Intrepid Paleontologist {1}{G}
Creature — Human Druid
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{2}: Exile target card from a graveyard.
You may cast Dinosaur creature spells from among cards you own exiled with Intrepid Paleontologist. If you cast a spell this way, that creature enters the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
2/2
Instagram has it's fair share of blame for the trend, but I don't think they were the progenitor, as it were. Snapchat was far more heavy-handed with face altering filters from the get-go, as I remember it. Instagram was mostly just the "old-school" sepia tone, black-and-white type filters for the most part until that picked up.