I personally know a guy* who put his finger in a small brown paper bag and tried to rob a Safeway (food store) in Tucson. He was drunk, and they didn't feel threatened. The store employees chased him on foot until he fell.
He ended up getting (what amounts to) 11 calendar years, which is lenient for armed robbery in Arizona, USA.
It doesn't matter if you really have a gun or not. It's armed robbery.

*He, actually, is a smart guy, and he would never hurt anybody. He was depressed and didn't care what happened to himself.

No. There is no evidence of intelligent life or any life anywhere except here. The numbers you refer to actually support the conclusion that there is no Fermi Paradox. I.e. The fact that there is no evidence is what we should be seeing.
Watch the whole Isaac Arthur YouTube series on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
However, I must say he is too optimistic. There will be no Dyson swarm, no Kardashev 2 civilization, and no interstellar travel.

The concept of not negotiating with terrorists depends on your definition of "terrorists". If an entity kidnaps your kid, do you pay a ransom? What if the entity is your government?

A simple partial solution is to stop cutting grass. Five % of pollution by mobile sources is from mowing. We spill an Exxon Valdez of gas every year. Small engines don't have pollution controls. There will be fewer injuries.

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None of the articles (that I've found) say *how much* more this disagreement indicator would cost. I can make one for under $100 USD. (I'm estimating, of course.)

Melania may be a model because she worked as one, but her primary occupation is good ol' prostitute. Rich-kid Trump bought her. He even bought the use of her womb. I'm not putting a value judgment on the activity. I'm just clarifying.

I don't know if Europe would have "been better without US intervention" in WWII. The consequences of "What if" history is difficult to guess. However, you are correct to point out that the US soldiers weren't uniformly White Knights. And, yes, you are correct to point to the WWII timeline that shows when the US landed in Normandy, Germany was about to die anyway.
It's very sad the typical American has such a distorted view of WWII history. It doesn't need to be propagandized as much as it is. But it's not as bad as it once was. At least nowadays the elementary school education is more honest than it was when I was at that stage, in the 1960s. Back then, Russia was more often portrayed as an enemy than an ally.
Even I, who had a more enlightened education than most American kids, didn't learn (until I was an older adult) that the Soviet Union lost about a hundred times as many people as the US did in the war.

That fake argument has been debunked by interviews with Canadians. I realize it's one-sided, but watch Sick-O. But the burden is on you since you made the statement. State your sources. Show that life expectancy is lower in Canada for a similar genetic group.

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When your daughter drives, she is using me as a test subject without my consent - by your argument, anyway.

Cereal box spy ring? I know I'm old but not that old. When was the last CBSR distributed?

They weren't really communists in the first place.

It's a comma before a direct address. It shows the difference between talking to someone and about someone.
* You certainly know, Ivan, we are familiar with your handlers.
Without the pre-address comma, the sentence would be ambiguous.

The sentence at issue is also difficult to understand because it is elliptical in that the verb "go" is left out.
*Go back to your handlers, Ivan.

I hate Tom Edison. He electrocuted an elephant just for show.