What do you think of the article's "Jellyfish, which diverged from humans about 600 to 700 million years ago..."?

Is there an Ascii for eye roll? 8^O

Uh huh, you "hired trump" Anna he's doing what you told him to do.

Did you hire him to lower prices? Said he would and hasn't.

Did you hire him to "close the border"? Are you really stupid enough to think he has? I mean yes you still believe things a pathological liar tells you so you are clearly a complete idiot. But humour me, I would like you to rationalise away the net migration statistics:

https://data.worldbank.org/ind...

In the real world, not fantasy trump land, net migration cratered in 2020, due to COVID. It first sharply again in 2021 and 2022, but under Biden didn't return to the same level and started to decrease YOY. Anna in trump's first year in it dropped by the same amount as Biden's last year.

So Trump has been no more effective than Biden, but yet you love trump for things he hasn't done. Anyway please rationalize that away including excuses about how it's everyone else who's the really racists really because if you shout that hard enough you might just believe it. We won't though.

Why are you lying about what people's positions are?

The cognitive dissonance is much easier to handle if you simply lie about opposing positions to the point where they're easily dismissed. Somehow it's easier to allow yourself that outright lie than to think a reasonable position is unreasonable.

[Citation needed]

He doesn't need one: you don't support Trump and the Republicans because of facts or reasoning. Any lie is OK as long as it feels right.

I find it baffling that farmers, a not on the whole a famously rich group, have decided that the parties of the monied classes and business owners are the right fit for them. They also voted for Brexit over here and appear to have been genuinely shocked that the massive EU subsidies went away, they're somewhat cut off from the huge market next door and the new promised trade deals struck to stop us running out of food do not massively favour them.

Oh also fishermen. Those fucking morons have whinged and bitched and moaned forever about the EU for preventing them from causing a fishery collapse. Then they all got massively surprised when the EU wouldn't let them take as many fish as they wanted from EU state waters.

Many people will vote against their own interests because they, frankly, can't think things through. If something right in front of them is annoying them right now, it's bad and must go. Bonus points if a known grifter who stands to benefit promises them sunny uplands if it goes...

Why are you always trying to "bothsides"

Notice how it's never "bothsides so I voted Harris". The "bothsides" people know they dis something reprehensible that need excusing, and that's why they're trying all the time to excuse what they did.

The people who still back Trump are willing to put up with his antics because he does the substantive things we actually care about.

Yes you elected the president of peace because you were fed up with all the wars being started and

by taking the fight to Iran.

Oh right, never mind, you love war now.

and is cleaning up entitlement corruption

Somehow in Trumpland, the president massively enriching himself and his family isn't corruption.

his predecessor who gave 100B+ to a corrupt Ukrainian regime,

Ignoring your made up bit about corruption (see above: either you're lying about there being corruption or lying about thinking it's a bad thing), that's called "keeping your word". Remember the Budapest memorandum?

President Autopen,

Trump has admitted to using the autopen, numbnuts. Just admit it's not about any of the things you say, you love Trump and that's it.

and told doctors to mutilate childrens genitals.

Oh right you're one of those people obsessed with children' genitals (you sick fuck). No wonder you don't ant Trump to release the Epstein files!

Ah my sig-stalker is alive and well! Hello good sir, how are you I have not seen you in a while! I am still curious as to who I'm supposedly thinking about, other than a name that doesn't sound wildly uncommon.

There are a few idiots here who still seem to like trump. I note that they all stay away from stories about him doing the more randomly stupid things, because those they can't defend whereas everything else can be blamed on Obama, burden or Hillary or some sort of 1D connect 4 or whatever game they think he's playing.

I'm other words they do actually know, but they just hope the right people will get hurt anyway.

Godwin's law is a beotch. I always preferred calling them the Nasties.

Of course not, but it was being sold as the path to future employment, as well as getting young women interested in STEM careers.

Exposure to coding itself is a good thing, just as exposure to other technology, Exposure to music and art as well is good.

I find computer logic different from standard logic, some similarities, but some significant differences. I find both to be enjoyable exercises.

I certainly do not disagree, especially AI in it's present form. Just how to write a prompt that gets you some sort of response is a pretty low intellectual bar. Perhaps just like in math, we start them out on paper. I do have one suggestion many might find odd. The slide rule. I was lucky enough to be in the last class in my school where the instructor snuck slide rules into the syllabus. The math/mechanical aspect and need for understanding of notation, turned me from a struggling student, to one who does most math in my head now.

And the batteries last forever. 8^)

Did you think for a New York minute that I was saying we should not assess a person's mental state? There is a difference.

There are people he who think that you are deranged you know. Same with me. Sometimes it rises to the level of more attack than analysis. You might not like it, but your idea that we actually attack people and in large part because we politically disagree with them, is how we get the deranged (in my opinion) idea that young people are smart, and older people are senile. So what do you propose? Involuntary Euthanasia? A person hits 65, and it's over?

Yes, term limits are a sideways solution, but one that doesn't allow the Feinstiens and McConnell's and a few others to make it a career out of government. Yes, it can kick very competent people out, but your idea of basic competency tests is what? What determines competency to hold office? I want people better than basic. But since you think my methiod is bad, how bow outlining yours, from local to presidential. What tests, what to do with failures.

If you're talking about students, maybe. If you're talking about tech bros (I wasn't), probably not possible,

My point in all of this is technology changes, and always has. The present day speed is accelerated, but ya gotta run with it.

AI is here to stay, although not likely in it's present form, which is unsustainable. But you really don't need gargantuan Data Centers to write code, or do a lot of other AI stuff, as well, the needed size is going to shrink - a lot. I look at present AI in fahion not unlike Early computers like Goliath or ENIAC.

And you should learn to spell. And why are you obsessed with my sex life? That's a little off. Not that is any of your business, but I average three times a week, although it varies depending on my wife's and my schedules. Sometimes more, sometimes less. And she usually initiates.

So fantasize on that for a while, weirdo.

I think it is a bit more nuanced. Some older people like Feinstein, McConnell, and You Know Who are definitely dotard, and some are batshit crazy, like RFK.

That being said, there is a good possibility that many people equate all older people as senile and incapable, and younger people as smart, and knowing how it is.

It's definitely more nuanced than that. I go along with most Democrat touchstones, other than a few problems they had following ivory tower far left wing academics, abandoning the working class, and a couple other awkward positions they took the last general election. But I don't want to get too far into the weeds here.

I believe in complete separation of church and state, single payer health coverage, a woman's right to choose abortion, Most of the touchstones, with a few exceptions.

I'm 72 years old, an age based enemy according to many. According to the people I work for, I'm at the top of my game. Which is part of why I was sought out post retirement because all the young and less expensive people washed out badly.

I always remember doing financial work with my 85 year old terminally ill father who died the next morning. He was old, sick and yet sharp as a tack.

My point in all of this is that there is a really important and complex problem of trying to figure out how people like Feinstein, McConnell, and Cheeto. can be removed from office without a simple reason of age. Because just as age doesn't by itself indicate dotage, youth does not indicate ability.

One way that doesn't attack anyone's mental state is term limits. Even then, you could lose some very competent people young and old. Not a simple problem to fix.

Feinstein is obviously demented, McConnell is now looking animatronic, maybe something stolen from Madame Tussaud's wax museum, and Cheeto is obviously suffering from cognitive issues, delusions of grandeur, probable heart failure, and neurological problems. And there is the common thread, mental incompetence, not based solely on how many years they have been on earth.