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Har! A couple of years ago I was on a business trip to Amsterdam and a colleague and I went to have a drink in a bar. She's quite attractive and guys are always trying to pick her up, even when she is standing there with me. Very emasculating! She was joking that someone would be after me before long and it turns out she was right. For the first time in about 20 years I got hit on in a bar. Unfortunately for me it was a guy! My colleague was standing off to the side, laughing and taking pictures, which she sent to my wife. They both had a good laugh. I seem to have lost my touch with women but am now sweet as honey for guys and venomous snakes. If my wife ever divorces me at least I'll have options!!! 😃

We were going to build a wall and make the Americans pay for it...but in our laid back way we never got around to it.

While relationships are often analyzed using specific loci, that is likely not what OP is referring. If we talk about cousins the number refers to the averaged total of the total DNA that is being shared. You get ~50% of your DNA from each of your parents, for example. Same goes for a sibling and thus, on average you will have 50% in common with your siblings. There is variability there as you might not get the exact same allele from either parent as your sibling is getting. The comparison vs chimpanzees is based on an entirely different metric. The 99.8% number is not based on sequence identity (as it would among siblings), but only focuses on genes which we pretty much have the same as chimpanzees. So it is not an apple to apple comparison. I think even then the value is actually slightly lower, because IIRC the 99.8 was based on partial sequences.

That’s a bad misreading of the evidence, IMO. The conclusion here is NOT that “nobody wants to work anymore.” The conclusion is nobody is willing to get WAY underpaid for working garbage jobs nobody else wants to do, especially after a year and a half of the entire planet referring to them as “essential workers.” Basically, if they’re so essential, then employers need to up the wages confirming that. Getting $2 an hour and some measly tips just to survive the week and feed your kids isn’t gonna cut it anymore. Until wages go up and employers respond to these market shifts, little will change. Folks have realized life is too short and too easily lost to continue being treated as indentured servants under horrible bosses in brutal vocations… so they’re looking for better options. People do want to work, but they also are tired of being critical to the infrastructure of society and being treated like trash. Similarly, productivity gains were mostly up in sectors where working from home was an option for the first time in the pandemic. This largely disproves the old canard that working from home leads to slacking and employees taking advantage of the system in large numbers and loss of profits, so people are rejecting employers who are needlessly trying to force employees back into the office in-person for no good reason. People are leaving those jobs and finding employers who respect their need for flexibility and family in their schedules… employers who see working from home as more than a mere perk, and acknowledge it as a requirement for many. I would change this only by adding the word “again.” This libertarian notion has AGAIN been shown to be absurd, but as with many ideologies to which people are emotionally married, facts don’t tend to trump passions and political preference.

I'm sure there has been an effect caused by the disruption causing people to rethink their lives. Often, we need a chance to stand back for a while if we are to get a perspective on where we are going and have time to ask ourselves questions about it all. Commuters, in particular, and their employers in urban offices, have learnt what can be done via IT and may not want to resume the daily commute ever again. That will affect businesses that provide services to city workers, reduce real estate prices in city centres, and will be a boost to services provided in the places where the workers live (food shops, cafes etc). It will also affect the economics of commuter public transport. Some of these changes could well be permanent. The effect on the airline industry could be lasting, too, especially with climate change imperatives coming along next. Some of the wage rises in the labour market seem due to the temporary state support to people laid off during the pandemic. It's not clear to me whether these rises are permanent or will die away as the support is withdrawn. I don't see any of these changes as affecting the essence of capitalism per se, but they certainly will affect business. When it comes to capitalism, one thing the pandemic has taught us all is the importance of central government. The facile libertarian notion that all government is bad has been shown to be absurd. Without government support and organisation we would have had no vaccines and a lot more of us would be dead or disabled.

I would suggest using a search engine for such inquiries https://lmgtfy.app/?q=Open+Command+Prompt+as+administrator

Is there something in all of that mess to which you expect me to respond?

That pretty face has been getting you in trouble your whole life.

You're right. I made the unwarranted assumption that anyone who can measure the CMB temp ( and deduce its origins ), would know about frequency shifting and galactic motion. I believe the CMB was discovered accidentally, so it could have happened before we realized there was galactic motion, or even galaxies.

I completely agree. I answered the question assuming the poster was not asking about factoring out the observers motion. That is the danger of asking a yes or no question about a nuanced situation.

And I’d wager money Alex understands this quite well and would be even more outraged if the WHO tried to dictate any commands whatsoever to the United States, yet for some reason struggles to understand why China might act with equal sovereignty.

In general when someone says, here is the truth about race, whatever follows is not truth. Just like when someone says, I'm not racist - but..., whatever follows is racist.

I'm back to, who cares?

Is there a place in the brain for politics sports, etc., etc. I don't believe that study is valid\. No one will find any data stored in the brain. The brain is merely an interface between spirit and body, nothing more.