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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • You do not get a Red Junglefowl laying a 2000s definition of a chicken egg. You get a Red Junglefowl laying an egg with a mutation that that “Red Junglefowl” will pass on.

    Every generation the Red Junglefowl becomes closer to the 2000s definition of a chicken.

    It wasn’t a “mutant” in the sense that one Red Junglefowl was born to create the chicken egg what we know as a 2000s definition of a chicken.


  • Proto-chicken>chicken>eschato-chicken

    Chickens have “evolved” in recent years more than recent centuries

    We just keep the chicken name but at what point do they become a different animal.

    Evolution is slow and has no definite point in time of “First official example of a 2000s definition of a chicken”

    It’s similar to the paradox of the heap.

    Of course a “chicken” layed the first chicken egg. But if we called that “chicken” a chicken then her egg would be the first chicken egg. Not the one she just layed.




  • Do you know what relativity means? You keep saying it

    A 6 or 7 year old child is ~120cm

    Average person 160cm to 170cm

    Relatively, a 3:4 ratio

    For a tall person at 200cm (6’6") that would be the same as 150cm

    Average woman is 160cm

    Yes a 200cm person standing next to a 150cm person looks like an adult standing next to a child height wise. Yet to them a 150cm person is much taller than 120cm. 1 foot difference.

    Why does your mind jump to “they look like they are with a child?”




  • I’ll take just that cookie (You want the whole cookie)

    And

    I’ll take just a bit of that cookie (You want a piece of the cookie)

    I made it just barely to the concert (Implies you were almost late)

    And

    I made it just to the concert (Implies you had something else to go to but you just went to the concert)


  • A real ID does not mean US citizen. Non-US citizens can receive a real ID. It just proves you are a lawful resident in the US.

    Same for drivers license and ID card.

    A birth certificate does no good on it’s own. And verifying a birth certificate is another can of worms. If it can only be the official government issued one? Then you get into the whole birth right citizen thing. You can easily be a US citizen without being born in US.

    Passport would be the closest thing to a true “Citizen ID”. US Nationals can receive a US passport without being citizens.

    Citizenship certificates would fix the birth certificate problem of US citizens being born outside of the states. However they cost 1k+. Maybe they can make them cheaper or hand them out?

    It’s laughable how bad identification is in the US. We still use social security numbers.

    I wouldn’t be against Voting IDs if everyone was issued one for free and replacements were easy and inexpensive to obtain.







  • A- 10,000 dollar car

    B- 50,000 dollar car

    Intrest is 5-15% (depending on credit score)

    6 years loan

    Interest paid over loan:

    5% A- $1,595 B- $7,977

    15% A- $5,224 B- $26,122

    If the dealership sells a 50k car they can get 6.5k-21k more money than if they sell a 10k car.

    They want to sell you the most expensive car they can

    So even if they could sell you the “cheap” Chinese EVs they would make less profit

    This is just one reason. Sales margin is another. When you’re a Ford dealership and get special treatment from Ford you have higher profit margins. If you just flip a Chinese EV with no special treatment you have lower margins.

    If there was a solid 10k car available less people would buy the 50k car (average cost of a new car today)

    Inexpensive cars on the US market is not good for dealerships in anyway