European. Contrarian liberal. Insufferable green. History graduate. I never downvote opinions expressed in good faith and I do not engage with people who downvote mine (which may be why you got no reply). Low-effort comments with vulgarity or snark will also be politely ignored.
What a mess! I love defending other people’s heterodox opinions so I was rubbing my hands at the sight of yours. But… This is such a bunch of unfalsifiable generalities and tautologies that I hardly know where to start.
To be fair, English is obviously not your native language, and you do an okay job of expressing yourself nonetheless. 6/10 for that, let’s say.
There are lots of flightless birds and a few flightful mammals (i.e. bats). Not any truly flying fish as yet. But presumably a few million more years might produce a properly flying member of the Exocotidae family.
As I recall, a major reason it didn’t take off was very simple: the new “Sunday” only came every 10 days instead of 7!
The best bit about it was definitely the evocative month names.
13! A prime number indivisible into anything. Ugh!
Good, we’ve nipped that misunderstanding in the butt.
Always the final resort to “you’re arguing in bad faith”… You have no more idea what motivates me than I have about you, so why bother making this unfalsifiable accusation? Anyway. You have expressed what you don’t understand about my argument, just as I’ve already expressed what I don’t understand about yours, as well as I possibly can. Nobody else is listening. Let’s just leave it there.
Obese means fat, not just overweight. The fact that there are twice as many non-obese among the poor does not make them thin! Unless it’s that people get fatter and fatter as they get poorer, until they get really poor and they suddenly they become skeletal, is that what we’re claiming? This whole talking point makes no sense and you seem rational enough to be able to admit that.
How can there be “huge swathes” of Americans who are “poorer than” the Americans who are so poor that they can only afford junk food and thus explain America’s obesity statistics. This whole talking point makes no sense.
Tell me that you haven’t read 1984. “War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength”, and today “obesity is hunger”, apparently.
Yes, that was my point. The word “hunger” is being conflated with food insecurity. We all know what “hunger” means, and it is not the same thing as malnutrition or food insecurity. I don’t care if it’s been redefined by NGOs to make a (valid) point more punchy, it’s not the same thing. It’s manipulative Orwellian use of language. That’s all I have to say here.
It doesn’t “surprise” me, it’s a common talking point. I’ve been to America, including the poorer bits. I know the statistics about obesity and social class - do you?
if you are dealing with hunger
Personally I can never get past this line. Malnutrition perhaps, but nobody in the world’s richest, fattest country - where the fattest people are the poorest ones - is dealing with “hunger”. I wish we could just abstain from manipulative Orwellian language.
PS: sure, downvote away to dispel your cognitive dissonance, but that won’t magic away the correlation between poverty and literal obesity in the world’s richest country
PPS: to be clear, “hungry” is either a useless or a manipulative word. Anyone can be “hungry”, no matter how well-fed they are, so in that sense it’s a useless term. In the other sense, meaning calorie-starved, it’s obviously wrong, since the poorest US states (Mississippi et al) are also the fattest. Sorry, but nobody here is thinking straight. The issue is one of nutrition and food security, not hunger.
Sure, interesting. You already know their populations are the same. What’s the population of Nigeria? Brazil? Totally necessary to understand the map.
Totally useless because not pro-ratized to population. Of course India is going to produce a lot of babies, India has a lot of people.
Just looked into it. Seems to be a sculpture to commemorate the victims of motorbike accidents! Clearly I was looking harder at the bird than the biker.
The deal with blackbirds is that only the adult males are (uh) black - but they also have a yellow eye-ring, which this one doesn’t. So I’m guessing it’s a juvenile male. Maybe a better expert will confirm! Dunno what else it could be if you’re in Europe.
YSK: this is clearly entirely jurisdiction-dependent and we don’t all live in the USA.
That is one very black blackbird. Juvenile?
The five microstates (Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Vatican) are wreaking havoc in south-central Europe.