Since I can recall.

Oh hey, I remember that. 😬

Because they learn from their families, usually. I remember the uppercrust side of my family kicking dirt from a family member's grave onto his second wife's grave. So classy.

"Demonstrative consumption" is the word

Ostentation?

Parents sometimes can't help not wanting to put their kids through what traumatized themselves. At least he wasn't trying to force you to ensure it because he had to go through it.

Whooptidoo

Yes. I dug in! It's the difference between hearing and listening, looking and seeing. Just noting that hundreth monkey is on their own timeline.

Exactly.

Okay but every time anyone posts anything historically accurate, .world goes "lies!” ffs, they're down to denying that h Hitler was defeated because of Russia and can't bring themselves to write the opening line of "First They Came," as a Lutheran pastor originally wrote it. Yes, we're not only that unaware of history, but that propagandized.

Beyond satisfying scientific curiosity, the discovery could have practical applications. Some organisms in the “ship goo” appear to be methane producers, potentially useful for biofuel production

🙄

There should be no veto power and states* that export violence and their proxies should have no place on any human rights councils.

He recalled his father’s words: “Independence is not a gift. We cannot import democracy or revolution; we must create our own. What works in the United States may not suit Burkina Faso. Venezuela has chosen its path, and each country must decide what is best for its people.”

If only the global West could innerstand and overstand this.

“Food security is more than having something to eat: It’s the comfort of knowing that by not having to worry about food, you can focus on your future,” she added.

I'm guessing the architects of the bill are fully aware of this and the bill acheives the actual goal. They want a desperate, schismed populace for a guaranteed supply of easily exploitable wage and chattel slaves.

Maybe you dodged a bullet.