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Comment Re:April Fools stories are gay (Score 2) 1482

"It isn't something I imagined."
I believe you. It seems more likely it's something someone else imagined, and you swallowed.

Political correctness isn't a phenomenon exclusive to the left. After people have had a few drinks, yell "The Second Amendment Sucks!" at a NASCAR event, and watch the tolerance and love pour your way.

Comment Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor (Score 1) 878

If by "they" you mean the US Government,no they can't. The government ceded control of the money supply to the Federal Reserve banks.

A dollar isn't "printed" into existence, it's borrowed into existence. We could try paying our debt by borrowing the payoff amount, but repeatedly taking out a new credit card to pay off the old credit card is a step backward.

Comment Re:Makers and takers (Score 1) 676

"Please explain where the mathematical impossibility is"

Say there are $16 trillion in the money supply. That means that $16 trillion in loans are outstanding. And the banks want their $16 trillion back. Plus interest.

($16 trillion + interest) > ($16 trillion)

Every loan being paid back with interest can't happen, because the money for interest doesn't exist.

Unless the money supply keeps growing.

($16 trillion + interest) == ($16 trillion + new loans)

And that's why fractional reserve banking is a pyramid scheme. Without new loans, the music stops. And lots of people (and banks) are left without a chair.

Comment Re:Is "impact" such a bad thing? (Score 1) 183

"So the question remains - why is it a big deal if animal behavior is altered?"

Depends on the alteration, of course, but in general imposing new stressors often leads to death, even extinction.

"calling humans an invasive species discounts our role in nature.... altering nature to the full extent that we're able"

Yes, altering the environment is pretty much the defining characteristic of an invasive species. With the exception of our nomadic hunter-gatherer ancestors, "our role in nature" is to disrupt the extant equilibrium everywhere we go.

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