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Americans will say anything to not use metric.

Is this the year of linux desktop?

You have a model of every person you know in your head and you have a model of how those other people see you in your head. The way you interact (or interface) with other people is based on those models, i.e. how you think they are ans how you think they would respond and how you think they see you.

Yes

You bet they used to but those populations dies off and those who didn't crush themselves survives. That's called evolution.

Do you know what people used to call a thing that gives you great power but with perhaps a greater cost.

A double edged sword. Our phones are same but worse.

Computers I call a double edged sword.

Phones are an outright curse.

Don't let that "don't tell me what to do" attitude stop you from acting though.

Boring answer is that dead people carry diseases so it is evolutionarily beneficial to stay away from them.

Well, cutting all the education budget and expecting a good rational voting from a bunch of uneducated people is a lunacy.

Also, it is well known that democracy is not optimal, but we don't have anything better.

EU has less trade barriers than between Canadian provinces

Hitler also died without seeing the inside of a jail cell :)

Yes, but in this case it means renewables + nuclear combined.