Dad, what is a lynx?

Mendel was an actual scientist, that’s right. But he and his work did not confirm Darwin’s ideas. That’s the most frequent error of so many Darwin followers.

But that’s Mendel, not Darwin.

A different flavor of ice cream doesn’t make a wholly new dessert.

Manipulative tricks. They do NOT want to make it easy for you.

For example, if they can keep your brain busy with a complicated name, then you put a lot of brain energy into remembering their product.

The “Silver Adam 590 HT” is so much better than the Adam.

Microwave, 2 plates, the upper one turned upside down.

Half a teaspoon of water between them, or even a little less.

15 seconds, and already that little amount of water is turned into steam and your plates are hot.

When you take them out, wipe them dry immediately, otherwise they could cool down quickly.

I don’t know, because I haven’t read the wiki page yet ;-)

It’s called procrastination.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrastination

The caveat here is why Europeans are a bit better than this?

The European countries had their own wave of fascism and dictatorship in recent centuries. Some seem to have leaned from the experience.

It should also be said that tarring all Americans with the same brush is unfair. I think it was the votes of less than a third of eligible voters that made Trump 2.0 a reality

But that means all the non-voters are to blame as well.

And why are the streets so empty now? I can’t see and hear all these democrats out there.

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I still like the Yoda variant best.

The descent became a downslide and now it’s an avalanche.

No, it hasn’t always been that bad. Stupidity happens. It is human. Most times people were able to keep stupidity in check.

That’s why democracy was invented, by the way. It was founded on the belief that a collective can be more reasonable than a single or small group.

Not saying that reason were the opposite of stupidity (that would be wisdom), but reason is a means to keep stupidity in check.

leading to all out war and global catastrophe.

I doubt it.

Unlike your typical nice bar brawl, not everybody is actually that eager to get involved in an exchange of nukes, and alliances get sometimes weaker when the risks get higher.

I wasn’t getting into the literal size of bomb impact areas vs global surface area.

Of course you are free to build your opinion on whatever speculation you like the most.

Did you know that a good share of all American nukes are mounted on short range missiles that can travel only 100 km or so? Some people were considering funny scenarios there…

I suggest to read about Hiroshima, and what really happened there, and afterwards.

Here’s a good book: Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki https://a.co/d/8KS4RXC

One bomb kills people in a circle of 10 or 50 km (I forgot), and injures people maybe 100km around. Then it does damage to nature maybe even 1000 km around. I live 2000km from Chernobyl, and we had some warnings regarding vegetables for a year or so.

But the planet has a circumference of 40.000 km. Now let your thoughts run around the planet.

an effective deterrent to war

Do not fool yourself. Nukes have NOT achieved that on their own.

It has always been humans who were somewhat responsible and willing to communicate (diplomacy) instead of shooting blindly.

Top 100 means about half of all countries.

So many people having their fingers at the triggers. There would be many unreasonable and evil ones among them.

We would have nuclear war every year.

In Usa, “protesters” are not allowed to do anything further than waving a few signs.

Even when they start shouting too loudly, they go to jail immediately. And then they need a president who releases them (but he releases only the right ones).

Have you noticed how many, many police and national guard troops they can afford? Massa Musk does not cut down on police, only on schools and scientists and caregivers for the sick…

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Don’t.

Keep the last tiny bit of your sanity.

Reditors say, goto therapist.

Therapists say, goto redit.

But they are all the same.

/s

Create a startup in reasearch and development of fully autonomous robotic electrical helicopters with swappable batteries and shiny plush seats for the passengers etc.pp. Collect huge venture capital for it.

Don’t forget to brag about your $1 salary!

Go broke after 3 years with a shrug.

Rent that land for some nice money to your startup as a test airfield.

/s

get people to [ …do XY]

Doesn’t work unless they can drive right into it with their small cars.