@jeffcliff @HOLOCAUST It isn't that humans evolve quickly, it's that only the ones that survive survive.
It's the reason why westerners can process lactose and asians are generally lactose intolerant -- the westerners who couldn't handle one of the most important parts of the western diet didn't survive, whereas the asians who developed the ability to process lactose had a disadvantage processing a thing nobody ate.
It can happen fast, but the process isn't nice. It means everyone who doesn't have the trait dies out.
It's the reason why westerners can process lactose and asians are generally lactose intolerant -- the westerners who couldn't handle one of the most important parts of the western diet didn't survive, whereas the asians who developed the ability to process lactose had a disadvantage processing a thing nobody ate.
It can happen fast, but the process isn't nice. It means everyone who doesn't have the trait dies out.
@jeffcliff @HOLOCAUST Depends on what you think the job of government is.
Do you think it's the job of government to protect the people, or do you think it's the job of government to protect the rights of the people?
Myself, I think it's the latter. If you're protecting people's lives by removing their fundamental human rights, then those lives are markedly less valuable thereby. What's the point of even living if they're just selling your kids into slavery to imprison you in your own home forever?
Do you think it's the job of government to protect the people, or do you think it's the job of government to protect the rights of the people?
Myself, I think it's the latter. If you're protecting people's lives by removing their fundamental human rights, then those lives are markedly less valuable thereby. What's the point of even living if they're just selling your kids into slavery to imprison you in your own home forever?
@jeffcliff @HOLOCAUST You kidding? The borders are already open. The lines are hours long. We're still somewhat locked down and the floodgates are open. Once again, the people who cross the border are more important than the citizens, and there's going to be a fourth wave, and a fifth wave, and a sixth wave, and it's never going to end because that way they can sell our grandchildren, and our great grandchildren, and our great great grandchildren into slavery for our comfortable prison.
Maxime is just some guy, and every one of us "just some guys" have some basic human rights. It seems that in the crisis of the moment we're forgetting that, and as 9/11 taught us, once we give those basic human rights up, there's a good chance we never get them back.
Maxime is just some guy, and every one of us "just some guys" have some basic human rights. It seems that in the crisis of the moment we're forgetting that, and as 9/11 taught us, once we give those basic human rights up, there's a good chance we never get them back.
@jeffcliff @HOLOCAUST I'll grant you that point.
He's speaking the words someone needs to say right now, but I've known forever that words and actions are different and you can't know for sure how someone will govern until they get into office. It's entirely possible that all this "just slightly less than the libertarian party" fades into nothing the moment it looks like they get an ounce of power.
He's speaking the words someone needs to say right now, but I've known forever that words and actions are different and you can't know for sure how someone will govern until they get into office. It's entirely possible that all this "just slightly less than the libertarian party" fades into nothing the moment it looks like they get an ounce of power.
@DK_Dharmaraj @jeffcliff @Bajax @Eris @HOLOCAUST @covid19 Pretty sure the naming convention is not related to genetics at all.
It refers to a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome cause by COronaVirus, the second one they found.
It refers to a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome cause by COronaVirus, the second one they found.
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@Alex1488 @Eris @Bajax @DK_Dharmaraj @HOLOCAUST @covid19 @jeffcliff Sounds like a techno remix of "someone that I used to know"
@Alex1488 @Eris @Bajax @DK_Dharmaraj @HOLOCAUST @covid19 @jeffcliff I'm impressed, I wouldn't have been able to find it.