Yes and no. The original Fanta was what you describe (a substitute for Coke in Nazi Germany) yet it was created from scraps and its taste most probably had little to do with the modern Fanta brand which was created in Italy and inherited the name after war.

Air has a higher concentration of oxygen than water, hence it’s physiologically easier (and more reliabel looking at the correlation of water temp and oxygen saturation) to meet ones oxygen needs by breathing air and wales had no disadvantage opting for lungs instead of gills.

This is what I don’t quite get about the Israelian society: Right-wing parties and religious nationalists are the ones waging war while keeping a big chunk of their main voter base out of the military draft … so effecitvely the less religious groups are punished by both policy an military duty. And they just roll with it (saying there’s isn’t sufficent resistance to change the anything)?

I don’t think so.

In my opinion, egoists represent a clear minority and would not be able to suppress everyone else by force. The series of revolutions and democratizations that have occurred throughout history is, in my view, proof of this.

The majority holds the power, and the rule of egoists is only possible as long as the vast majority accepts it (because the disadvantages of being ruled by egoists are offset by sufficiently large benefits of cooperation).

To some extent, therefore, we must also take a good look at ourselves for accepting the status quo as it is and not wanting to change it because it would be too inconvenient.

Yet we chose candidates… even though the pre-selection is biased towards egoists.

Looking at the current rise of populism ''we" actually seem to deliberately chose the most egoistic ones available.

But nonetheless: Imho representation automatically leads to corruption by egoists so we should get rid of representatives all together (or at least try to rein them in by making it possible to remove them from office at any time )

Two things that come to my mind:

1. In our current society money equals power over others. If you’re not the richest your not the most powerful and if you are you need to fight to proetct your power from other who are getting richer. It’s not about money but about determining the fate of others and rulership over society.
2. You don’t become obsecely rich by being a good person. Once you reach a billion dollars you most paobably already aquired a mindeset that leaves you no other choice than to look for another billion. Much like a hamster in a wheel which spins to fast to let it go off.

In the eyes of average humans (which I believe to be decent people, at least 80 % of the total population) this is insane… however the 10 - 20 % egoists are the ones we chose as our rulers.

Which is the whole point of this admin.

Even if US citizens were able to get rid of Trump, the GOP or the fucked up two-party system the gains made during the hyper-corruption phase will remaik in the hands if the oligarchy. And the US is far far away from questioning the wealth distribution… even in the current crysis.

,Deals" with Trump apparently aren’t worth the ink.

,It’s not a bug, it’s a feature."

Ungebildete Kinder lassen sich leichter indoktrinieren, deswegen auch das aufweichen der Schulpflicht im Wahlprogramm. Letztlich US Politik 2.0.

A good portion of that happend in the last 15 months.

What would have taken 40 years was achieved in mere weeks by the orange genius.

True.

To me it appears that it’s framed that way which is disturbing.

I didn’t know about the PCB pollution of Lake Michigan… that was an interesting read, thanks!

Fortunately I am not, at least to my knowledge, fishing a water body with a similar big pollution problem.

Good luck with your project, and good fishing!

While this being a touching story this will be used by the greedy at the top to justify abandonment of childcare in the long run… in internal discussions. And posts like this are used to normalize the idea.

This father shouldn’t be forced to bring his child to work at all.

In the first pic it looks a bit like that one dispatched itself ^^’

Side note:

Those guys are edible and actually tasty. I usually either deep-fry them whole (panko crust is optional) or cook them and mush them into fish patties. In my eyes its always best to not let go to waste what you kill.

Greetings from Europe where various pontocaspic gobies have become a nuisance as well.

I’d argue the windows are way to big for a plane as well…

There is a difference between “having enough money prevents people from turning to crime to survive and meet their basic needs” and “having more money allows you to buy more happiness, even if your basic needs have long since been met.”

How unexpected…

Moving large naval targets into the range of enemy defenses despite having the technological advantage necessary to keep out of it must be another 5D chess move from the orange master mind.

/edit: If it’s really true and not another pump and dump scheme for Oligarchy Brows Ltd.

On a positive note:

It’s fairly probable that someone inside those companys doesn’t pay enough attention due to being overly confindent in the product… and we’ll see leaks of classified data decades before they would have been available to the piblic.

Hat jemand was anderes erwartet?

Man beauftragt eine Kommission, die macht viele und in Summe ausgeglichene Vorschläge… und dann macht man nur das was vor allem die Bürger belastet und beruft sich darauf das die Komission das ja vorgeschlagen hat.

GroKo tut GroKo-Dinge.

Ich finde eine Vereinheitlichung sinnvoll, weil sich daraus dann in ein paar Jahren tatsächlich sinnvollere Vergleiche der nationalen Gesetzgebung ableiten lassen. Aktuell hört man ja gerne mal ,wegen der Migranten gibt es in Schweden viel mehr Vergewaltigungen als in anderen Ländern" … was aber primär mit den unterschiedlichen Definitionen zusammen hängt, daher schafft eine Verheinheitlichung hier mehr Vergleichbarkeit.