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Comment Re:There is no such thing as equal work (Score 1) 349

Pray tell me how a father is supposed to bond with newborns. You do realise that babies sleep most of the time? And when they're awake they're too fragile for us to play with. And newborns are practically blind so it's not as if they can see us yet. Not that I'm opposed to paternity leave. Any kind of paid leave if fine by me. But in terms of necessity, we only need a couple of days after delivery to facilitate the delivery, hospital admissions and discharge, and registration of the babies and such. But after mother and child is settled at home and all the registration stuff is done, there's not really much for the father to do at home during the day.

Comment Re:This is a great excuse (Score 3) 119

I use nano because for me it is the best text-mode "text editor". I use it to "edit text". Not for coding, which I guess is what you're talking about. For just "editing text", nano is the most user-friendly. There's no need for all those advanced features you mention when all I want to do is "edit text files". I'm talking about plain "text files", the kind that just have words and punctuation and none of the code tags or whatever that needs to be syntax highlighted. Just normal words in English or other language and none of the programming words that need to be auto-completed. You know what I mean?

Comment Re:From the Enderverse (Score 1) 110

How do we know it's not actually art imitating life? Maybe Orson Scott Card already had a theory of viruses being responsible for human intelligence, or he heard it from someone else. But OSC or his scientist friend didn't want to publicise the theory for fear of being called a quack, so OSC decided to put the theory in a book?

Comment I thought evolutionists had it all figured out? (Score 0, Troll) 110

The evolutionists used to say that human intelligence could be explained by evolutionary process of natural selection, and they made no reference to viruses. Meaning previously they never said that viruses were required for human intelligence to appear. Now these people are saying that viruses were important to make us intelligent. Meaning that if it was not because of viruses then we not have evolved. So why did they say they had everything figured out? Were the evolutionists wrong previously? Were they lying? Are they lying now?

It is also interesting to note that nowadays retroviruses is one of the main vectors for performing genetic manipulation of cells. So if it is indeed proven that viruses were involved in creating human intelligence, can we discount any longer that humanity was created through genetic engineering?

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