Aging really is a game of swings and roundabouts

Euro bonds, the EU needs to start issuing bonds

Riveting rebuttal.

it's a duopoly, mate

Dems are perfectly happy to keep things like the NSA and ICE funded, then act shocked when Republicans use these tools. They're all part of the problem.

He's not above the law, they just want to prosecute him for some unimportant, tacky procedural misstep. Neither party wants the precedent of presidents facing consequences.

yeah yeah the actual events of the Obama administrate just fell out of everyone's heads, historical thinking is asking too much of the anglophonic world, my bad

I mean, sure, an inheritance tax curtails the most egregious aspect of an informal aristocracy. But it's a pernicious thing. Creeps in. Who your parents know, the school you go to, the district you grew up in, the jobs available after you graduate. I'm pretty damn skeptical of any claim to true meritocracy.

also, tf2 hats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplA6pq9cOs

Is it that Japan doesn't have people born into obscene wealth or is it that, being english speakers, we just don't hear about them?

Also, maybe we should be careful about increasing the mass of the planet. I'm sure a little here and there wouldn't be too much of a problem... but you know... the same is true of combustion engines...

That's a good question. I don't know for sure. I just meant to imply that thinking about cancers in terms of "cures" isn't a very useful way to approach the matter.

A cursory search suggests that reptiles and birds do get cancer, just at a noticeably reduced rate. Maybe something to do with metabolism? Or a side effect of bodies capable of live birth? Dunno.

I've also heard that whales and elephants get less cancers than we would expect from animals (or I guess mammals) of their size.