I'm not really all that sure that anything resembling Darwin's theory of natural selection could have developed without Linnaean taxonomy, not to mention that unlike much larger biospheres, the Galapagos Islands could be more easily observed, so I think it unlikely that da Vinci would have had the kind of environmental exposure.

Who exactly is cancelling Charles Darwin? This looks like some manufactured outrage, a strawman you can beat endlessly without ever having to get out of your echo chamber.

Jesus, grow up.

Unfortunately they also put the immunocompromised at risk along the way. I have absolutely no issue with people flinging themselves off cliffs. When they tie a rope to an innocent bystander and pull them down as well, then I have an issue.

Clearly they have too much money in the bank to spend on frivolous lawsuits. Sounds like they need to pay a lot more taxes.

Because rule by technocratic corporation is just such a big win. Your's is a perfect example of how our chimpanzee brain can overwhelm those faculties that make us human. Greed is based largely on short term gain (your paycheck right now) and not on long term prosperity (what will my paycheck look like if the government and unions are hamstrung or outright eliminated from labor regulation and negotiation).

So what is it? Are you a chimpanzee, or a human being?

It will be the standard Conservative talking point; that the recession doesn't really exist, it's all these evil economists, many of them civil servants, trying to get Labour elected. Labour has now been out of power so long that it can't be directly blamed for the woeful state of the British economy, so the next strategy is to deny there is a problem at all.

All the Brexit "dividends" that were promised have proven phantoms. Creating any kind of friction with your primary trading partner is utter stupidity. Britain has been a merchant nation since the Middle Ages, with deep links to the Continent. In fact, whether it was the Habsburgs, Napoleon, the Kaisers or Hitler, the primary objective was to create a continental system that would keep Britain out. Heck, even de Gaulle got in on the "keep Britain off the Continent" when he blocked Britain's entry into the customs union at a time when Britain's economy was falling over a cliff.

And lo and behold, this time it wasn't some Continental demagogue trying to wrench Britain away from Europe, it was the likes of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson who accomplished what Britain had been fighting to prevent since the Battle of Agincourt.

I think a review of post-WWII history will show that Britain spent decades in a spiraling decline. It's empire and the kind of locked in economy that that vast empire had created began to disintegrate. The huge debts accrued between the late 1930s and 1945, much of it owed to the United States in one form or another, left it the sick man of Europe. It probably would have entered the Customs Union earlier, but de Gaulle had an absolute hatred of the British and did everything he could do to block it. A seemingly permanent turn around happened as it integrated into the European economic community. It had to replace its Empire with something; and the Commonwealth had proven an enormous failure; with the preeminent Commonwealth nations like Canada and the Australia resigning their economic relationship with the UK to the dust heap.

Indeed. An alternate title for this story could be "Europe Resists Race To The Bottom"

One could always, oh I dunno, actually read the research.

We're all responsible. Unless your a indigenous person living in the jungles of New Guinea, India or the Amazon at a neolithic level of technology, you have contributed to.

It's a helluva lot easier to turn of unattended updates in Ubuntu than it is in Windows, and honestly, for this kind of work, why would you choose Ubuntu at all?

According to the OT God told Abraham to murder his own son, only stopping Abraham at the last moment. God is a fucked up dude, so maybe He did tell this putz to scam people. God has done far far far worse (if you believe the Bible).

For me, it's just another con artist using religion to gain money. He's at the lower tier of con men; the big ones like Joseph Smith, L Ron Hubbard and Billy Graham wanted power.

Are you nine years old that you react so badly to harsh reality? Jesus Fucking Christ, what the fuck do you expect, some special dispensation from thermodynamics because of your feelings?

And the RNC's chosen candidate would have a different stance on Israel?

My brother lives in Calgary and when the cold snap hit there, there were plenty of ICE vehicles knocked out. Even the block heaters were struggling, and that's before they were told to conserve electricity during the evenings. Intense cold snaps pretty cause different problems for ICE and EV engines, but the result is the same; the vehicle won't start.