I guess the closest equivalent I've experienced to USA's "Pledge of Allegiance" school-indoctrination is when the school year was nearing ending and we were training to sing the "national anthem" for the graduation ceremony,
but when we asked "what if I don't want to 'live and die in the Nordic Countries' as the lyrics go?",
the answers from all teachers I recall were along the lines of "well, you can just... sit and not sing that then" and almost always there were kids loudly interjecting an objection in that line, so it became "Yes, I do NOT(!!!) want to live and die in the Nordic Countries!"... and that was fine too.
11-year-old was suspended, arrested and taken to a "juvenile detention center" (child jail)... after refusing to stand for "Pledge of Allegiance"
https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2019/02/14/mother-upset-after-son-kicked-out-of-class-over-pledge-of-allegiance
No pledge under coercion is binding,
yet the indoctrination-machine of USA feels so insecure, it keeps doing this to children, which is virtually unheard of under non-authoritarian States.
@Ferretsyndicate @Are0h Why are Right Libertarian’s so afraid of a healthy populace?
@Ferretsyndicate if people dying and living shorter lives due to lack of health care isn't an actual emergency, what the fuck is
Horseshoe crabs, spidery shaped things, evolution, node shift
Recent paper shaking things up! Xiphosura, or horseshoe crabs (fig1), as the sister group to arachnids, which is to say that whatever animal all arachnids evolved from, its closest relative was the ancestor of horseshoe crabs.
This new analysis suggests that XIphosura is actually nested within arachnids and their closest relatives are the Ricinulei (Fig2).
This new placement means that either there was multiple terrestrialization events for arachnids OR horseshoe crabs are a terrestrial lineage that returned to the water.
Heres a link to the abstract, the paper is unfortunately paywalled: https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syz011/5319972
@danishcookies society condoning domestic violence is also a factor in mass shootings, as nearly every mass shooter has a record of committing domestic violence.
helpful sexual definition list
unisex - you can only have sex one time in it (not reusable)
asexual - reproduces without a partner
bisexual - a thing that happens twice per sex
homosexual - having sex at the same time as your partner(s)
heterosexual - having sex, but not at the same time as your partner(s)
pansexual - having sex with everyone and everything in the world simultaneously
metrosexual - having sex exclusively while on public transportation
queer/geek/artist/entomologist/professional regiphagist
transphobes/aphobes/biphobes/panphobes and pedos please kindly fuck off