Oh me too, they just seem to have very few long term planning leaders these days.

True, but remember they will just blame it on the previous administration until it’s forgotten.

Why would they do that when they could use the time-honored GOP strategy of blaming it on democrat leadership and immigrants?

Is it apple only? Would love it on my droid if it’s available.

Gah, what a great movie for a myriad of great actors. Prequels to Wash (Tudyk), King Baratheon (Addy), and Vision (Bettany)

I think you mean Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein

Aren’t there research science positions in the military that are civilian positions, but also given a rank?

I might be misremembering but I thought that has been a thing for a while.

I like any sort of rpg that requires you to understand the text so you know what you need doing. Diablo 2 was my way to learning another language, but it’s fairly old now. Maybe something along those lines or that has a good crafting system? I would suggest stuff like Grounded, some of the Elder Scrolls (oblivion just got a remake so that might be nice), project zomboid, etc.

Well now I feel more compelled to go tell off that orange fuck, and protest the armed forces that are a: allowing themselves to be used for propaganda, and b: allowing their companions to be deployed against their own citizens in violation of their oaths.

Articulate the difference. You keep saying I’m missing the point or that there is a difference but you don’t state what it is.

You’re reading into it too much. I read your response to the other guy and went to the first example my mind thought of for government regulation of foodstuffs that are safe to consume but otherwise banned for a reason.

I for one would eat endangered species if it’s all I had access to, but I understand the damage it would cause and am comfortable eating other sources of food. I also do love eating beef and pork and chicken, but I’m willing to reduce consumption of those for other sources if needed.

We see a ton of rainforest being chopped to expand access to cattle farming, tons of pollution runoff from farms, and a history of antibiotic resistance being transferred due to heavy antibiotic use in close quarter factory farms. I would argue those would be equally damaging to not just us, but also many ecosystems and the species in them.

So I draw an equivalence there. If you’re not cool with eating endangered species, maybe you can ease off the gas on mammal based protein.

On the other hand, it’s looking like we might be able to get around a lot of that damage with lab grown meat.

Would you eat lab grown meat if standard beef/poultry/pork were to be banned?

The point being? That it’s fine to set government regulation to protect species from being wiped out and that somehow doesn’t transfer to it being fine to regulate beef or other meats as we see them negatively affecting a vast swath of ecosystems including many of those endangered species? The harm has to be to the species being regulated and not from the species?

Are endangered species not also safe to eat generally?

They’re all crustaceans.

Well whales and giraffes are both mammals, and since they’re classed together due to a common ancestor it’s fair to say they’re related and you could group them together.

Just like how decapods and insects are classed with hexapods under crustacea, effectively making them related due to a common ancestor.

So you could say giraffes (or artiodactylans) are proto whales (or cetaceans) much like you could say crustaceans are proto insects. Or insects of the sea.

OK now you’re just arguing in bad faith. You said the other guys example wasn’t equitable because it’s conflating banning a material with controlling quality. So I asked you the same concept but with a proper example and instead of responding with a coherent argument, you went with ridicule. Go play in traffic.

Shrimp and lobsters are decapods which belong in the arthropod group right alongside all of our insects. They are water insects by definition.

It’s not at all like saying a whale is a fish because while they are both vertebrates, they split much sooner than arthropods do, and they do not share as many similar characteristics.

It would be like saying a shark is a fish (which it is).

Would you eat endangered species if available?

That’s a government regulation that controls what you can consume that has nothing to do with food safety.

Stir fried meal worms have the consistency of chips, so it’s really down the what seasoning you use. Pretty tasty ngl.

Let’s be honest, if they made alligator nuggets or dinosaur nuggets from the correct meats and in the right shape you would still eat them and it would be delicious.

I’ve been eating insects. Cooked right, they’re just as delicious as any other food.