sure

and peacock tails evolved to absorb a peck to the rear and lions evolved manes to absorb bites to the neck

get real. you know other primates have beards too, right? hair on the face of mammals evolved long before primates emerged 85 MILLION years ago. facial hair is a primitive feature not and advanced one

mouse lemurs have facial hair and it's hard to imagine lemur prize-fighting stance to deliver fist blows to the jaw

a thick beard evolved through the same process as any other - random mutation (in this case facial hair on males) and natural selection (females mating more with one type of male than other over generations)

for other examples see "homo sapiens penis size relative to other primates and mammals"

by the time we get to homo sapiens in Vitruvian man form, homo erectus females had already been selectively breading most bodily hair away (probably because of lice and skin parasites) and longer head and facial hair (probably because washing and grooming with oils and mud makes it manageable and parasite free while pleasurable to touch when they do the funky monkey)

this in turn makes males with good-lookin' facial hair more desirable by females which made their social pecking order standing higher which made females want higher order standing offspring so they would prefer mating with higher order standing males; rinse, repeat and round and round we go, all the way up to and including this guy

so homo sapiens are just part of the same, hominid thousand-generation evolutionary branch continuing trend of female preferences of random mutation males and pop science is stupid

Naomi Klein

Unsurprisingly more-than-a-little alarmist in her views

something resembling a coherent pandemic shock doctrine is beginning to emerge. Call it the Screen New Deal. Far more hi-tech than anything we have seen during previous disasters, the future that is being rushed into being as the bodies still pile up treats our past weeks of physical isolation not as a painful necessity to save lives, but as a living laboratory for a permanent – and highly profitable – no-touch future

riiiiight. hyperbolic much?

im not saying that's not a risk. it is

however... this is one possible outcome, dependent on so many different sets of circumstances happening in an exact sequence of events that given those parameters a paragraph like the one above is far better suited to pages of a sophomore scifi novella than a serious journalistic publication for grown-ups

i mean the language choice is editorialized so fucking badly: disaster, shock doctrine, bodies pile up, physical isolation, no-touch future, laboratory, permanent

give it a rest would ya? liek we are all leik freaked out abuot it already or somethiiiing so leik why dont you leik do your fucking job by putting focus on the facts and leave the mass hysteria to the politicians and tin-foil-hat-wearers

tl;dr;

Reade said that her impression was that Biden believed he had consent, and was surprised at the rejection, but that she had done nothing to give him that impression. “There was no flirtation, he had no consent. He was by my ears when he said, ‘Do you wanna go somewhere else?’” She pushed him off and he stepped back, looking surprised, she recalled, and flashing a huge smile.

“‘Come on, man,’” she said he told her. “‘I heard you liked me.’”

“He had that smile he gets, but his eyes were not smiling,” she said.

“You’re fine,” she recalled he said, grabbing her by her shoulders. As he walked away, he pointed back, “You’re fine.”

Draw your own conclusions

my 2c: sounds like “a bad mistake under wraps” v “grab ‘em by the pussy” and it’s gonna come down to if Americans prefer an open chauvinist to a concealing one