TheSanSabaSongbird

This is true, but agriculture is a trap in the sense that once we adopted it, there was no turning back.

And your point is?

Simply trotting that out as a truth tells us nothing about how you propose to build a modern system that respects how we've evolved as a species.

Meanwhile, the problem with communism is that it relies on everyone having aligned incentives on a nation-state level, which is a pleasant fiction and can only be achieved through authoritarian coercion.

No, it's not. The provision was written into the US Constitution for reasons that made perfect sense at the time of its drafting. The framers were worried about the possibility of people who had been born elsewhere in the British Empire being subject to pressures on their extended families. The idea specifically revolved around the concept that only colonists could become president, again because they were worried about family entanglements with the rest of the British Empire.

It doesn't make a lot of sense in a modern context, but in order to accommodate the slave states, the US system was deliberately designed to be almost impossible to change and/or update, so we live with it even today.

Non-human primates, but yes. Also, it's not restricted to male non-human primates and is also seen in females, especially in your various macaque and baboon species wherein female status is largely inherited from one's mother and sisters.

Again, you are focusing on her rather than on what she actually said. That's what I find so telling and unfortunate. Are we really so shallow and politically inept that we can't hear a message simply because we dislike the messenger?

It seems like you are telling me yes, that's exactly how shallow and politically inept we are.

If so, that sucks, especially since you are almost certainly correct.

That's totally believable. I don't claim any expertise in this matter and would never claim to be anything even remotely like an economist.

This is the correct answer. There will be no cease fire until, at minimum, the hostages are released. The other problem that the Israelis have is that there's no evidence that Hamas has any intention of honoring a cease fire as they've willingly violated many such agreements in the past.

I don't have a strong opinion as to what the correct choice is here for Israel, I'm simply stating the facts as they relate to the possibility of a cease fire.

My wife's old iMac over here. It's lightning fast too.

No it's not. What do you imagine the entire Florida case to be about if not the illegal handling of classified documents? This is a matter of public record and can be confirmed on a huge variety of news sources.

That's a default vote for Trump then.

This entire thread is pure amateur hour. The ignorance on display here is very disheartening and speaks to how a lack of media literacy contributes to the larger dysfunction. People know something is wrong, they just have no idea why or how it's gone wrong.