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Why did birds evolve flight and people didn't? The other apes are intelligent enough for their niche. At some point in humanity's past, the environment was harsh enough that the le…

They do have a common ancestor, it's just not a marine mammal.

That's just creationism.

If they are violent and need to be kept in check, why not just keep them in jail? Otherwise, people with money get better treatment than those without.

It has to do with bail being viewed as "letting criminals go free". If there is a high conviction rate, then most of the people being arrested are eventually found guilty, and I wo…

Get a better text editor and file browser, and probably terminal. I use Sublime as my text editor, but there are other options. I use PathFinder for a dual-pane file explorer. I us…

Maybe a little hyperbolic, but I've seen other studies that show humans can differentiate between odors better than dogs. Dogs seem to be great at detecting odors in low concentrat…

https://www.bandtr.com Play a random album from your Spotify collection

I collect vinyl to own my music and a lot of modern vinyl releases include a download code.

I get it. I was really into fantasy as a teenager, but now I'm on the wrong side of 35 and nonfiction is all I'm interested in. I feel like there is so much stuff that has happened…

Buy the lot and build a house? Home builders and realtors are pretty established business models. Land developers can do both.

It takes a lot of energy to pull carbon out of the air. The energy needs to come from somewhere, but if it involves burning oil then it's going to create more mess than it cleans u…

That's a pretty good UI. I made a simple app to shuffle Spotify albums that you might like. Check it out at www.bandtr.com

Yup. I turned on the record player instead. I'm glad I still have a dumb machine I can fall back on when all of the technology fails.

I like to think that Bigfoot did exist at some point. There is fossil evidence of large upright walking apes in Asia (gigantopithecus) contemporary with early homo sapiens. Those c…