Why do you keep posting the same question in different communities?

If wealth is accumulated due to merit, why does wealth tend to accumulate within families? Are these families somehow more meritorious than the rest of the population? Is it perhaps the multi-generational connections made in industry providing additional benefit to those families?

As for the free market, the FDA was formed because bakers in the free market realized that sawdust was cheaper than flour. The free market also requires perfect information to function correctly, but even if you have that how will it help if there is no better regulation. Once upon a time the only kind of match you could buy were made with white phosphorus, despite how dangerous it was to work with. It took regulation to switch to red phosphorus, even though the expense was only slightly higher.

There was a cool guide/meme about lichen a while back. The stuff is weird and very hardy (until it isn’t). Like, sits on a rock and just lives there year round. -40? Not a problem, it will just do nothing until it warms up then it will keep growing. So Antarctica isn’t really going to stop it, just slow it down.

How useful! I can’t count the number of quarter-pennies I’ve lost…

To add to this, the Primitive Technology channel on YouTube shows how to make a fire with two sticks. The key to his preferred method is a harder stick with a point and a softer one with a notch. Then you have a lot of work, prep, and trial and error ahead of you.

I got in on the second season of the IP craze. 6L, stainless pot, didn’t actually think about the pressure vessel, I’d have to check if it was non-stick. But it does well. I think if I got a decent air fryer 80% of my need for a stove would be negated.

British Citizen in 1910: India is a conflict that was resolved 100 years ago.

There are discussions about open vs. free going back over 20 years, that I know of. The divorce happened long ago, but they’re still neighbors.

I had coworkers in the early 2000s who would do this, working in a white collar profession, and pretty sure they weren’t alcoholics or doing (hard) drugs.

…fresh cloned bodies…

The jacket makes a pretty shitty statement on the face of it, no matter how you could present it, and the message is completely wrong to wear to a children’s detention facility. I honestly believe she didn’t think about any aspect of it except as a fashion statement, which is a good indication she shouldn’t be a public representative.

The more apt analogy would be OR vs NOR.

Keep on farming. Content has to come from somewhere!

“We.” Are you referring to people, or is that the bacteria self-identifying as plural?

This is politics from both parties. Singh didn’t say anything first because the conditions were pretty clear, and it’s politically advantageous to strike first. Trudeau talks about being the aggrieved party because that’s politically advantageous, too.

I’m not the best guy to ask for sensitive responses, but try to take my blunt and possibly obnoxious response in a positive light.

There are a lot of people saying terrible things on the internet, to the point where only the more aggregious ones stand out. Most things will be ignored or forgotten by most people, whether they were good or bad, but I appreciated this post, and you for putting it out there.

I was trying to make a lewdly suggestive comment about vintage balls leaving them hanging. Apparently it wasn’t done very well, but it did have unintended and appreciated consequences.

Hence why it’s commonly said that one of the foundations for a working democracy is an educated populous.

And he just leaves them hanging.

I’m referring to the users asking the questions.

I’m not sure what your point is. It is completely orthogonal to mine. In the same vein, no, you aren’t responsible for other people’s choices, and yes, rabid dogs (or people who act like them) are unlikely to listen to reason. Neither of those are good reasons to start fights, and that statement neither says that all fights are avoidable or that one mustn’t defend oneself.

Yes, and the vast majority of scenarios where that is the case is where one party made completely unreasonable demands or turned to violence as the first option.