Actually, it's a guess from a very incomplete skeleton - skull fragments, a few vertebra and a femur. If, and it's an if, the hind legs were longer, other explanations can be found. However, "walked on hind legs" is sexier. no more.

My wife was given a ticket. She was traveling the highway with a cluster of other cars. When she asked why she was singled out the officer said "You ever go fishing? You ever catch every fish in the pond?" No, moving with the traffic won't do you any good. Trying to debate your way out will do you ill. You were speeding, that's it.

i don't care if we let 1000 murderers out of jail ... before I'll condone putting an innocent man in detention!

I love your sense of balance. /snark Fuck the 1000 murder victims, right?

Not really. Couple of reasons.
Many times psychotic episodes (or looking episodes) are caused by drugs. Three days doesn't seem too long to see if the drug's effects wear off or the episode is "natural".
Also, the holding could be used to see of the patient isn't faking *not* being psychotic after the first day to get out.

Actually, I think mud dauber wasps will be the biggest issue. I've had them completely block a car's air cleaner intake in one summer.

Indeed. I would also add that studying etymology in and of itself gives one a deeper understanding.

DLC = unfinished game

Oh bullshit. Some games have ongoing stories that would mean the game is never "finished", which in turn means it would never be released.

All of them at some point. This was a big one though.

many of them for completely stupid and banal offenses

As opposed to murder, theft, arson, bribery, etc. Hell, you can be rejected now for just having been arrested for possession of pot. I certainly wouldn't want a convicted felon, guilty of robbing a bank, *working* for a bank. They can get another job. It doesn't have to be working with people's money. Good damn reason not to want them doing that. You seem to be purposefully conflating "stupid and banal" with vicious and dangerous.

Same for some Icelandic sagas. Some are immense.

Which he then illustrates by linking to news (reports). It's not true, it's complete bullshit. Actually, that's too soft, it's an outright lie. It would mean that those kids weren't even taken to a hospital or coroner, where gunshot wounds require mandatory reporting.

"... because capitalism alone has no morality and perversely incentivizes lying and other sociopathic behavior." ALL systems provide some form of incentive but only the individual takes the course.

Kinda like how the cost of replacing the lithium battery is never mentioned.

"However, if you happen to make it to heaven before I do, I'm going to insist on a room far away from yours." Which, since you will be exhibiting bigotry towards one of God's chosen, will get you dropped right down to hell. Nice journey.

"... it is just biological and chemical processes that get your body into fight or flight mode." Since that "biological" component seems vague to you, allow me - it's chemo/electrical. Fast stuff. Three hundred feet (100 meters) per second fast. Or, for a six foot tall individual, 1/50th second from the toes (not the eyes where it's more like 1/200th).

Of course, there's some processing and then sending the results back down. Fortunately, there's a lot of simple testing that is going on so we know it's pretty quick. From that site, 264 milliseconds (1/4 second) is average for simply clicking at a screen. No high level impetus there.

That's what triggers the fight or flight. The second or more it takes to either start fighting or fleeing is where the hormones come in, generating the feelings of rage or fear and upping performance. And yes, the system can be flooded in little over a second. The whole thing is not "split second". Only the nervous system part.