Well, being from the part of the world with a pastoral history, milk is fine for our 40% because we have 6,000 years of history. We've had milk longer than grain (in my ancestry). I agree that people without the ability to tolerate milk shouldn't have it, but I am not about to go without shellfish even though…

As a reminder to those of economic and white privilege:

How is arbitrarily limiting marriage to one person to enforce Christian beliefs somehow more palatable than limiting it to one man and one woman to enforce Christian beliefs? The staggering hypocrisy here for marriage equality is disturbing. Don't try and turn poly and muslim families into your bogeyman.

Worse than manspread is fatspreading and pregspreading through. People have no right to take up multiple seats just because they are too lazy to stand.

"God forces the (mostly innocent) Egyptian people to suffer more plagues because he "hardens" Pharaoh's heart. But without any sense of who the Hebrews are, and what their lives are like, there's no feeling of justice behind these horrific acts."

Well, its not a "scientific" definition, its the IAU definition for their own internal purposes of preventing adventurous countries from finding and cataloguing and naming planets without their consent (as happened with Sedna). Planets will almost certainly have a different legal definition based on the existing…

Vast troves of financial and insurance information, carefully preserved in abandoned mines and liable to be viable as artefacts for thousands of years.

If Turkey destabilized, those weapons would be Turkish Nuclear Weapons inside of 20 minutes.

Is it worse than China or Russia?

You forget the big one that keeps trying to annex Iran to get a warm water port (the last territory it took from them was 1945). Russia keeps trying to invade Iran. If we didn't stop Russia from cutting into Ukraine, why should we tell Iran to trust we'll protect Iran.

The NPT is undermined because all 5 members of the UN security council are in violation of it. Each not only has officially given up on complete disarmament, but they all have more weapons then when they signed it.

I'd note that the Mayan's didn't "fall" , their empire did. When Rome fell, people still lived in its ruins.

They weren't in trouble for failing to predict the earthquake,

Have, they aren't properly archived, but neither were the paper copies, hence the digitization. The accessibility requirement (no one can see a work unless everyone can) isn't really the government's fault either. The original documents weren't full accessible either.

We are all quick to judge, but we don't live on top of 6,000 years of constant history. Like, this guy lost his house because "surprise" someone else in the last 6,000 years was living in the same crowded area. No wonder he didn't go to the authorities.

The "Throwing Libraries in the Dumpster" bit bothers me because it is blatant misinformation that is trying to politicize efficiency. Its been going on for years, people only care when a right wing person is elected.

Human greed and desires are part of the human condition. We all theoretically could live on a nutrient slurry and sleep in storage lockers wearing grey overalls amidst a world were no resources are squandered on art or music. But we don't work that way, that is part of why our population expands in the first place.

The tally keeper system cannot work because we don't have any sort of range of when "given enough time is". The warden could have everyone but one prisoner go through 10 million times, and then have the last prisoner go through 10 million times in a row.