They also didn’t like genetics because it was anti Marxist-Leninist to them. They didn’t like the concept of inherent traits.

Well “No you” is essentially what you said so own it. Instead of addressing my points you attacked the messenger. A childish move.

Unrealistic “solutions” are not helping. Everything I said has been pointed out even by advocates and those that work with the homeless. Post here how you would create a working plan.

The land is expensive. Every time you buy and build or rebuild you want to make a profit off of your investment and effort so it goes up. Even if the structure is crap and you intend to tear it down and rebuild the seller still expects to be paid for the structure. The only way to make land more affordable is to build upwards and make condos/apts and increase the number of residents per unit area.

The problem is many of them can’t manage themselves never mind a home. Sticking them in a house and walking off isn’t doing anyone a favor. How would they even pay for utilities, upkeep, and property taxes? We can’t afford to subsidize everything, many of us are struggling to get by ourselves. They’d need jobs to sustain themselves and I doubt many of them could hold a job or qualify for much. Also this just lumps every house in the US into a single category. If you are in CA and refuse to move to Detroit then it doesn’t matter how many available homes there are in Detroit.

Reminds me of the lead up to WW1 where Germany and Britain were in a race to see who could crank out the biggest dreadnaughts.

It isn’t safer if all of the other drivers are also in massive suvs.

The number of massive trucks I see without a speck of dirt in the bed that are used mainly for commuting and groceries is pathetic.

End of life care will vacuum up all of the money from every generation now.

I used to check out the coffee pot at the U of Cambridge.

Everything they did was to line their pockets and destroy the company and leave creditors holding the bag. They should ban buying with loans, no taking loans against acquired companies for X years. The sale and leasing of assets back by the same owners stinks.

Hah! I used Dufour also. My choices were that and Pepperidge Farm but I knew the critical part was it had to use real butter. Looking at the prices I knew that PF being half the price meant that they had to make some serious compromises. If I’m going to eat a bunch of calories I’m going to do it right.

The website joyofbaking.com defines the term galette as “a French term signifying a flat round cake that can be either sweet or savory and while [recipes can use] puff pastry as a base, they can also be made from risen doughs like brioche, or with a sweet pastry crust.”

I was making a galette for the first time and while I was going over the epic saga that is making your own puff pastry I said, “fuck it, I’ll just buy some from the freezer section at the store”. It came out great and I saved 3 hours of my life.

I had a chicken casserole recipe and it called for “a can of cream of chicken soup”. Ok, this soup comes in the normal, single serving size and the jumbo “cooking for a family” size. It made the recipe unusable.

I always thought there should be an “unlimited class” in the olympics where you can take anything you want. I want to see wildly drugged up athletes competing with each other.

This was more than just simple reflexes though, like minibrains.

When I was a kid I didn’t read about a “2nd brain” but a series of ganglions that acted like relays down the spine. Supposedly the belief was the size of dinosaurs made it impossible for nerve signals to reach the brain from distant parts of the body in a timely manner so they had these relays that made it easier to have reflex responses while the signal was being passed on to the brain.

The idea stemmed from misinterpretations of large cavities found in the hip region of some dinosaurs, like Stegosaurus. This cavity, which appeared somewhat brain-shaped, was likely a glycogen body, a structure similar to one found in modern birds, and its purpose in dinosaurs is not fully understood but may relate to energy storage or balance.

I was talking to a guy in Hong Kong about the housing there. It is obviously very expensive but they have public housing. The public housing has income limits and a very long waiting list. He said by the time you hit the end of the waiting list your income has usually crept up past the cutoff limit.

Right up there with the Japanese guys who “marry” anime characters.