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Comment War is Peace (Score 1) 131

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.

Comment Go Vegan and Nobody Gets Hurt (Score 1, Interesting) 87

Rather than thinking of better ways to raise more beef, it would better to reduce beef consumption.
Industrial beef production uses 70% of agricultural land for feed, pasture, water, etc. including lots of chemical inputs and massive amounts of CO2 produced by the cattle and the all of the agricultural activity.

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