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Comment Re:That is what I like about American units (Score 1) 77

Lots of wildfire research has confirmed the the cause of fires spreading is embers landing next to houses.
Standard wildfire prevention measures emphasize that the most important defense is to clear all burnable material from the first 5 feet ( 1.5 meters) from the house.
You don't need to defend any further distance. Just 1.5 meters.

Comment War is Peace (Score 1) 142

Here's a good one:
"14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war."

This ignores the fact that the US has conducted an average of 4 attacks per year on other countries during the past 25 years. And, of course, our new war is crashing the world economy.
"some version of peace"

Comment Re:Well that's odd (Score 1) 22

I stopped buying from Amazon a year ago and switched to eBay.
Just about everything is cheaper on eBay... sometimes a lot cheaper... and most of the time have free shipping and returns.
I've also found that eBay sellers are very eager to ensure you are satisfied with the purchase. Good support. They are mostly small businesses.

Comment Re:Anyone who reads (Score 1) 70

All you have to do is look at population response to infectious diseases to see the change.
The plague, smallpox, etc. all provided a mechanism to select for people who has some resistance and kill of those who didn't.
Also, mutations to genes are happening all the time. Most have no consequence but a few provide some advantage or disadvantage to the organism and are selectively enhanced or discouraged.

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