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I wasn’t trying to prove what would survive, merely show how resilient life can be. If a simple microbe is guaranteed to survive in hell, something more complex able to behaviourally adapt/relocate is likely to as well. The greatest danger to complex life is having nothing to feed on.

Tropical fish might have to survive in the Arctic Ocean, or grasses in the northern prairies, insects of a zillion different types and sizes. Life, uh, finds a way.

We won’t kill everything. No matter what we do. Life will continue and more of it than anyone thinks will, even of the plants and animals. It is humans and most of the large animals and intolerant plants that need fear the impending Climate catastrophe.

I feel as though the assumption that humans had the ability to kill all complex life like some people suggest is exaggerating the significance of humans

It absolutely is. There are microbes that thrive at the bottom of the ocean in the boiling acidic conditions of hydrothermal vents. There is absolutely no way anything humans can do at this point would kill ALL life on the planet. There will absolutely be some specialist microbe somewhere that looks at whatever we did to the planet and says ‘yup, now is my time to shine!’.

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As if they haven’t always been stories or not.

The paper doesn’t even prove that they are healthier due to a greater sense of personal responsibility. It only theorizes this sense of personal responsibility is a possible cause. As others have pointed out the study results could be explained simply by picking conservatives that are upperclass and have more time/energy/money to spend on being healthy.

No worries. The music contents were so appalling that I had to remove it to be sure it didn’t violate Rule 2 even if the actual video context was a critique.

Thank you for proving my point

Because the issue isn’t racist depictions. It’s a lack of education and a focus on intolerance instead of actually employing the sympathy you are demanding. Nobody is arguing the word or imagery is fundamentally racist in origin. We’re saying they honestly don’t know about that so need education. That’s the context you are ignoring to go on your black knight crusade.

You are the exact opposite of what the Peace Corps is asking their members to be. Hear the offensive word and you go on a rage fueled violent rant about how racist they are being instead of taking a deep breathe, looking at the situation and realizing they only use the word because it is the only one they know. Simply taking the time to inform them of how hurtful the word/imagery is without being a salty bitch about it is how fences are mended.

I worked with Ukrainian immigrants decades ago and found them all to be extremely easy to converse with. They do almost all the work for you and their sense of humour is top notch. TBH you really could ask that question and they’d laugh, make some quip, share their sandwich and next thing you know you’re having dinner at their place tomorrow.

Apparently there is because the post clearly states that there is a possibility a volunteer might hear that word but it not be intentionally racist. You’re completely ignoring that half the message is ‘evaluate and determine if it is ignorance or racism’.

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Best I could find, myself not being fluent in Russian, is this human rights/legal organization still operating in Russia proper which describes the conviction as a result of delivering homemade fliers saying ‘do we really need this kind of President’.

By all means, reveal the evidence that was presented which you claim is being suppressed. I have no problems admitting I’m wrong in the face of substantiated evidence.

no scrap of evidence for this was produced.

I would absolutely love it. Used to be an FLO and all I can say is carrying a stack of HE Shells would be stress free. Nobody rushing you or even being remotely discourteous. A team of escorts tackling anyone that even looks in the direction of my path, let alone attempts to walk in the way…

Thank you for making my job a little easier today :)

I actually read the referenced articles.

Fact: WWII was almost 8 decades ago. Japan, France, Italy, Brazil all are not Nazis.

Every nation has an element of Far-Right wackadoodles in their midst. To call Ukrainians nazis is as racist as calling Poles communists because they were a part of the USSR 40 years ago.