Comment Re:April Fools stories are gay (Score 1) 1482
What specific "stuff" has been difficult to understand?
What specific "stuff" has been difficult to understand?
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"monogamy is not the predominant mating system among the hominid lineage and probably never was"
You confuse freedom of opinion with freedom from consequences.
The first is impossible to take away. The latter is impossible to grant.
So really your argument makes no sense at all.
You own marriage? Kindly produce the documentation.
Then please explain why you invented polygamy, because it's kind of weird.
Nobody is denying you your opinion, they are just telling you what an asshole you are.
"I just don't see why people can't be polite while they disagree"
1) Withholding civil rights from an entire demographic isn't "NICENESS", no matter how politely you believe you are doing it.
2) People who politely disagree are eminently ignorable.
"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.
So you *are* blaming Obama.
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.
Not a new concept, still an interesting development.
But they didn't ban half of the cars, they banned half of the driving.
"God is very far ahead of you"
In my own defense, God did have a head start.
I'll bet I'll type "waka wama wana" before He does. So there.
The NTIA wasn't arbiter of all internet content, and the way the internet is designed, nobody can be.
NTIA administers the top level (.com,
Censorship would be imposed on the traffic itself, at the ISP/carrier level, not by the dns root servers.
"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.
Yeah, I think Teslas are designed to be light and aerodynamic. "The Beast" is neither.
"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.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.