right but if I'm thinking correctly (maybe not) then if it "merely" wasn't harmful, wouldn't there be room for variation within the species of toxicity?

perhaps they do have some cards after all

I feel like if evolution is correct (I'm confident it is) then it must be evolutionarily advantageous to have the capacity to kill a herd of elephants with one's toxin, assuming all animals in the group have that capacity.

We can go lower!!!

lots of rights get modified, curtailed, or eliminated by the larger society based on misuse or misbehavior or other transgressions.

(or positions of power, etc...)

Europe, to its credit, has acted on some of the science. Paraquat — the herbicide chemically similar to MPTP — was finally banned in 2007, although only after Sweden took the European Commission to court for ignoring the evidence of its neurotoxicity. Other pesticides with known links to Parkinson’s, such as rotenone and maneb, are no longer approved.

...

Among the chemicals still in use, none has drawn more scrutiny — or survived more court battles — than glyphosate.

glyphosate

Don't think of it as a race, think of it as an opportunity to find kindred spirits

Dammit, Kevin

IF we can get a very strong Congress that recaptures and then vigorously defends it's Constitutional powers, AND that goes through the trouble of codifying what used to be political norms before Trump, AND amends the Constitution as needed to put a strong leash on the Executive branch, I think it's possible we could become that anchor again.

But it took a world war and at least 25 years of concerted effort after to build that role for ourselves. Even though the Republicans have damaged or destroyed it in 3 months, it won't be rebuilt in 3 months.

After WWII there was a halcyon era where nearly every adult in America agreed that nerds had been crucial to our winning. That's why Operation Paperclip came to be where we stole all the former Axis nerds we could find.

It also led to an unprecedented boom in education spending, research spending, etc., mostly aimed at beating the USSR at technological development. Sputnik goosed that significantly, and the Apollo program briefly did as well, until Americans got bored of Moon landings...

That was probably the first major flashing red warning light most of us ignored: Moon landings... boring?!?!

Anyway, educated people started doing things that weren't directly associated with winning the Cold War, like exposing the dangers of lead in everything, the dangers of smoking, the dangers of chlorofluorocarbons, the dangers of greenhouse gasses, etc.

That threatened the ability of grotesquely wealthy hoarders to hoard even more grotesque levels of wealth.

So they started the project to dismantle education in America.

That project kicked into afterburn once the USSR collapsed and the Cold War ended.

And so far, nerds haven't been successful in regaining their status.

Also the villification of experts as people hell bent on leveraging their expertise to dominate our control non experts.

I recently right that a useful counter to that conspiracy their is to point out that experts should be thought of as tools to be used for different purposes. Like any tool, experts can be misused in a variety of ways, including accidental and purposeful.

those are rookie numbers, we can do better!

I was watching the stream when the splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico and the NASA commentator said the stupid MAGA version of the name.

I just can't even...

So we gave up 1 mad king 250 years ago only to pick up 2 now?

everything ought to be transferred to Ukraine, but only the European stuff is likely to be in the near term.

that's one thing Biden really should have done after the election.

maybe that should be an addendum or footnote to the "best days of a boat owner's life"

I assume this includes changing the past so how about have Bernie win the 2016 Democratic Primary.

Or go back and have SCOTUS say the 2000 Florida recount could continue until the true winner was determined.

Or go back and have Carter win in 1980 by revealing the collusion between the Reagan campaign and Iran (might have to include breaking the OPEC bullshit too).

If none of that, and assuming "free will" can't be overridden, maybe Freaky Friday the consciousnesses of the 2024 Democratic candidates &. spouses into the bodies of the Republican equivalents. If there's some limitation based on the biological sex of the participants, put Doug into Trump and Kamala into Melania, they're a team anyway.

yes

with "hire more" you do run up against the "9 women can have a baby in 1 month" limit, but in this case it's likely to help.