There is strong scientific evidence that getting vaccinated significantly decreased the chance of death from COVID, and therefore were a net benefit for the population.

Your conclusion does not follow from your initial claim. The vaccine may well have been beneficial on net short term (say one year) but there is slowly accumulating evidence that the vaccine has decreased quality of life and lifespan mid and long term.

Furthermore, Pfizer and Moderna have been strongly pushing in advertisements for continuing use of their vaccines beyond the first 2 doses, despite evidence that the third and later shots become ineffective quickly and are more likely to cause severe damage. Those two companies have become massively corrupted by their own success.

If we don't understand how these animals think, then we won't understand what they need.

I think about chocolate candy. I don't need chocolate candy.

Slavery is an inferior economic technique. Voluntary labor incentivized by benefits from that labor will always be more effective because they are not plagued by the costs of recovering escapees, preventing escapes, routine sabotage, malingering, and avoidance of difficult tasks.

Slavery has never been necessary because there's always a superior option.

Authors generally do not sign over their copyrights to publish.

I've seen hundreds of examples of short stories published in compilation books, where the publisher has granted (i.e.sold) permission to reprint the stories. The author does not hold those copyrights.

NRA membership is 5 million, AARP 38 million. The Roman Catholic Church in the US is about 82 million; there are even more Protestants. The American Automobile Association has over 60 million members. I agree that the NRA members are likely to be the most focused. People don't join the AARP for its political stance and those that follow its recommendations are dupes (not that they are lacking in numbers).

I tried to find numbers for Fox News and the other TV news networks, but the numbers varied over a 10:1 range so I gave up. Political radio talk shows can pull close to 15 million unique listeners a week each, with NPR on the left and individual talkers on the right.

Parts of Lake Michigan do freeze over. It wouldn't help Biden, who is in such poor neurological condition that he can't walk dependably over any surface, let alone ice.

Several commentators have pointed out that keeping Biden in office is elder abuse.