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What are the benefits of having a beak over teeth for birds?
I initially thought it could have something to do with flying, and beaks being easier to use than teeth for eating while in flight for some reasons. But then I realized that flightless birds (from ostriches to emus to penguins) also definitely have beaks as well, so that couldn’t (at least entirely) be it.
Why was sound generally widely adopted in movies before color was? Was it a technology issue, an expense issue, a combination of both, or something else?
Obviously, this isn't a concrete rule, but I believe it's at least generally true that sound was widely adopted in movies before colorization was.
Are there any extinct species of viruses or bacteria? If there are, how does a virus or bacterium actually become extinct? Given how small/numerous they are, I can imagine it would be pretty different from how other organisms (such as animals or plants) go extinct.
reddit.comStrawberry Fields Pitch Film (1990) — This pitch was for what was hoped to be a spiritual sequel to the Beatles’s The Yellow Submarine film released a few decades prior. It was sadly cancelled in 1992, though, due to a wide variety of problems with its production.
m.youtube.comWhat’s your favorite live action role/appearance in a TV show from somebody who mainly voice acts or is primarily known for their voice acting roles, rather than appearing in live action?
reddit.comWhat’s your favorite live action role in a movie from somebody who mainly voice acts or is primarily known for their voice acting roles, rather than appearing in live action?
reddit.comAre there any TV show reboots that you think are better than the original versions of the shows?
I often hear about the movie reboots that folks think are better than their originals, but never really the same about TV shows. I wonder if that’s because they’re more difficult make, or something along those lines.
What did people think that parasites (such as tapeworms) were, before modern medicine/science found out what they actually are?
This can be in ancient civilizations, or any other time periods before we found out the reality of what parasites actually are. Considering the removal of parasites is such a difficult process, people back then likely wouldn’t have had any straightforward ways of knowing what they looked like either.
What did people think that parasites (such as tapeworms) were, before modern medicine/science found out what they actually are?
This can be in ancient civilizations, or any other time periods before we found out the reality of what parasites actually are.
What do plate tectonics do besides moving land around? In other words, would the only thing different on the Earth WITHOUT the movement of its plates just be all of our land masses being stuck in the same positions that they formed in forever, or would anything else be changed?
reddit.comThe same goes for if there are any weather phenomena that used to be pretty common on Earth, but are now significantly rarer due to those or other factors as well.
Democrats have had every chance that they could’ve possibly wanted to have to entirely ban gerrymandering on the federal level and massively strengthen voting rights in the United States when they’ve had the power to do so. But either through extreme incompetency or an intense racist hatred of voting rights that they just lie about not having, while appointing weekly Rotating Villains so that the Republicans always have juuust enough support to kill any meaningfully progressives, anti-fascist bills in Congress, they’ve all failed miserably. Now, it’s entirely uncertain as to whether or not they’ll ever be able to achieve any real power in the United States ever again. Particularly when it comes to the black Senators/representatives who were often the Democrats’s bravest and most progressive members to begin with! What a devastating, truly disturbing ruling for democracy in America. The Jim Crow era should NEVER have been an option to go back to, it all just makes me fucking sick.
To be perfectly honest, I don’t know if we should even HAVE a Supreme Court anymore at this point, considering all of the damage that they’ve been able to do to this country so far, and with absolutely zero laws/restrictions in place to stop them from doing so!!
If anybody knows the actual specific year of this song’s performance, please reply with it. To me, it looks like this clip was from some time in the 1990s and appears to be old enough to qualify for posting here. (I know I’m very brave for taking such a great risk here, please hold your applause!)
The same thing’s the case with that shadow docket on the Supreme Court. I looked it up, and apparently this big, scary Shadow Docket that the SCOTUS is using to give Trump whatever the hell he wants now has just. . . . .been around for LITERALLY the entirety of the Supreme Court’s existence in the U.S, all the way from the very late 1700s until now. Yet, evidently, only within roughly the past ten years have ANY lawyers or lower-court judges really even started to understand/acknowledge the massive problems with this docket. Despite the fact that, to reiterate, the shadow docket has ALWAYS been a completely unregulated, unrestricted decision-making process that the SCOTUS has always been able to use at any time it wants to, for whatever reasons it wants to, throughout the ENTIRETY of its history.