ronl2k

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[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Those tiny cars don't meet American safety standards. And Americans don't like bottom-of-the-barrel cars at any price.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I didn’t know we had cameras when she was young

In case you aren't joking, all of Napoleon Bonaparte's 4 brothers lived into the age of photography (1826) and had their photo taken with a camera. His youngest brother Jérôme sat for many photo sessions. Only one of his 3 sisters, Caroline, lived into the era but never had a photo taken. Napoleon Bonaparte (08/15/1769 - 05/05/1821), didn't live into the age of photography. US President Abraham Lincoln also has several photos taken of him during the Civil War.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

The real problem is Democrats giving rubber-stamp confirmations to conservative Supreme Court justices.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Democratic congresspersons confirmed most of the conservative Supreme Court justices. Biden was famously instrumental in getting Clarence Thomas confirmed.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

PETA euthanizes animals because there are simply too many to house and feed.

PETA euthanizes well taken care of pets that it steals from owners.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Nonsense. There's incontrovertible evidence that 2.4 million years ago, the non-human creatures on our family tree were already smarter than any non-human animal roaming the earth today.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

most animals are much nicer than humans.

Man-eating animals are NOT nicer than humans.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You could say that about anywhere on the southern North American continent

The US south was underpopulated until A/C. The north was where the population was located until A/C.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sunbelt here.... I think the population growth of the southwest shows where people are partial to the weather

Modern air conditioning does a lot of the heavy lifting for that preference.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Nordics have definitely evolved for cold weather. Most whites and Asians evolved white skin to help synthesize vitamin D from scarce sunlight. Africans evolved dark skin to avoid synthesizing too much vitamin D, which can be toxic.

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