Little_mouse

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Little_mouse ,

It's not that hard to fold sheet metal into three sides. I'm not sure why these are notable in any way at this point.

Little_mouse ,

Linnaean taxonomy classifies apes and monkeys as two closely related groups. This is the classification system most people are taught in grade school.

Cladistics is a style of classification that seeks to organize species and groups of species from when they branched off of other groups of species. In this style, everything is defined by novel features, but they are still members of the more ancient clade. Birds for instance, would be a novel clade emerging from Dinosaurs, and thus all birds are also dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are birds.

Because there are two groups of monkeys with unique characteristics (new world and old world), and apes have unique adaptations not found in either group, we have no way of cladistically defining a monkey in a way that meaningfully does not also include apes.

As a side note, this is where the phrase "there is no such thing as a fish" comes from. 'Fish' in the Linnaean sense are a huge and diverse category. Two random members of the fish class would likely be far, far more distantly related than a random mammal and a random reptile.

Little_mouse ,

Probably until either the nurses stop panicking in my local area or the immunocompromised people in my life die of a preventable illness.

Little_mouse ,

Maybe people are setting it up at home using a numberpad? In that case it would be just running a finger down the left side.

Little_mouse ,

I don't recall the books well enough to be sure, but knowing Pratchett, there is almost certainly a direct reference to that quote in there.

Little_mouse ,

Even without going full 'free housing for everyone' utopia, it would be nice if the rent students currently pay to landlords was recoverable when the space is no longer needed. The same way people paying mortgages can just sell their house even before it is fully paid off.
We wouldn't need to drastically reshape society in order to allow people to invest in their own futures rather than shovelling most of what they have into a landlord's pocket.

Little_mouse ,

*Artificial Hormones have been banned.

The natural hormones in milk still exist. The post looks mainly to be a response to the pearl-clutching that soy-milk contains a similar low-level of (plant specific) hormones.

Little_mouse ,

Well the first step is to reduce or at least drastically eliminate the amount of CO2 that is being released in the first place.
Removal of carbon from the air is necessarily going to have to be a down the road plan. It literally cannot happen to any scale if we are still relying on fossil fuels in the first place.

Little_mouse ,

It might be similar to a Motte and Bailey Fallacy. Though that one is more focused on distinct but related definitions than it is for distinct but related situations. Not the exact one that you are looking for, but the related concepts might be a path towards an answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

Little_mouse ,

"Most consumers want fast food companies to label when sawdust has been added to food - but trust restaurants less when they do."

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