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  • I don’t see where it’s clarified that the ship was unarmed or if that would make it somehow not a military target? It’s not a civilian ship, it’s a military vessel.

    Call me crazy, but in a race of most-illegal, attacking a legal target in an illegal war seems like a pretty low hanging fruit. A lot of making something out of nothing vibe when there’s plenty of somethings to actually talk about.

    Again, assuming I didn’t miss where it’s outlined that this isn’t the case, but a WARship being attacked by another WARship (submarine if there’s a technical difference but that’s not my point) in a WAR just doesn’t seem like an ethical dilemma beyond the shitty reasons for the illegal war in the first place.











  • So from the wiki

    The monophyly of Xenacoelomorpha soon became established, but its position as either a basal bilaterian clade or a deuterostome remained unresolved until 2016, when two new studies, with increased gene and taxon sampling, again placed Xenoturbella as the sister group of Acoelomorpha within Xenacoelomorpha, and placed Xenacoelomorpha as sister to Nephrozoa (Protostomia plus Deuterostomia), and therefore the basalmost bilaterian phylum<

    Seems like “where on the tree of life” is “the first bilaterals” which makes sense. They seem very worm-like in bodyplan. Shit from the Pre-Cambrian can look pretty alien and have shaky relationships to more derived species.