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Slavery is theft of labor. "Vastly more" by what quantifiable criterion? Hours worked? Splendid. But that doesn't mean they can out-compete Western production. Ten North Korean peasants each with their own hand hoe can work diligently 14 hours a day to dig a trench. But they won't move as much...

sol·stice (sōlstĭs, sŏl-, sôl-) n. Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest angular distance from the celestial equator. The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere occurs about June 21, when the sun is at the zenith on the Tropic of Cancer; the winter solstice...

And it's more complicated than that, when types, sub-types, clades & sub-clades are included.

The cliché is: "Half the people you know are below average." Trump / MAGA has me wondering, is more than half the population below average?

Some laymen may believe humans are more highly evolved than the common house fly. Some entomologist may disagree. Evolution does not occur within individuals, but inter-generationally. There are more house fly generations per decade than human gens. Thus more house fly evolution per human...

We'll sidestep your terminology "per capital prosperity". The term I used: - per capita prosperity, per capita, Medieval Latin: by heads. I didn't mean the opulence in Pyongyang, or lavish accommodation of the Soviet politburo. Mine refers to standard of living within the general population...

"A shot of the Rum, chased with a beer can be quite fun and bring good cheer" Grace06

P II of II Well Ricardo, the leader of your party has dozens of felony convictions, he wears scandal like a peacock wears feathers, and he just demolished the East wing of the white house.

P I of II I looked for but did not find a graph revealing consumer prices and cost of living for the new millennium “...Reince Priebus, the Republican National Chairman today said that 300K jobs ... aught to be expected every month ... and just a historical perspective: -during...

Economics at national / social level is complicated. Suffice it to say the Soviet bloc had a substantially different wealth distribution than the West. If there's a better model for a nation's economy than utilitarianism, the greatest good for the greatest number, I'd like to know about it...

That's not the end of the story. There are multiple plausible explanations for this. a) simple age-related deterioration of mental faculty b) because loyalty is more important to Trump than competence Trump has surrounded himself with fawning "yes-men". The result? Being challenged less has...

GOP Strategist Reveals Why Trump Is Now ‘Politically Insane’ Annabella Rosciglione / Fri, December 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM GMT-5 Longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove is warning that President Donald Trump is making drastic “mistakes” that will result in the GOP losing its grip in Washington...

D.J. turns 80 on June 14. For a man his age Trump looks quite physically fit to me Problem is as post #1,820 demonstrates Trump commonly seems estranged from reality, & common sense.

Thank you Claudette & Rosa S2, I suspect most Americans are not aware the event that enshrined Rosa Parks' name in our civil rights lore was carefully planned. Such preparation may be more common than the layman imagines. Perhaps more conspicuous on Independence Day, a day commonly referred to...

My reason for skepticism regarding your assertion quoted here has far less to do with what I've gleaned from reports of it over the years, and more from my rudimentary professional decades long experience with applied statistics. You're addressing a population of over one million, and...

Biden may have won the Dem. nom. BUT ! On election day Trump wasn't running against Biden. Trump was running against Harris. Trump voters didn't vote against Biden. They voted against Harris. You think Trump was treated unfairly by the U.S. judicial system? Do you know how many lawsuits Trump...

Fine. I'm not sure they need to know that. What matters is not their understanding of radiational dynamics, but their socio-economic commitment to breaking the runaway. We're already over target for mitigating disaster. Whether a Netherlands style dike will be required around major coastal...

The end of the Cold War brought more change than merely relaxed Russian security of the Berlin Wall alone. Certainly the Germany's re-unified. But there were other affects. Wasn't Ukraine a Soviet republic during the Cold War? And Ukraine went Western friendly because all Ukrainians are stupid...

OK Schedule #3 isn't going to make Joe 12 pack / MAGA happy. It's not going to make the do-a-blunt crowd jubilant. I'd be surprised if Trump's older sons didn't offer some insight about it. This one's a puzzle to me. I'm not sure it even rises to the level of "half-stepping". Trump is willing...

Trump expands access to cannabis in a major shift in drug policy Bernd Debusmann Jrat the White House https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8z684r6vlo ref: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/increasing-medical-marijuana-and-cannabidiol-research/ "ruination" FOX