AmidFuror

You have the correct answer, echoed by others. If one could draw a sharp line, then we would see proto-chickens laying eggs containing chickens and then some of those chickens laying eggs containing proto-chickens, back and forth for many generations. The combination of alleles that qualifies an organism as a chicken would arise and then often be reversed by recombination in the next generation. Eventually as more and more of the population has chicken allele combinations, the percentage of chickens born would grow as the reversals became less numerous than the forward conversions.

Now, what defines whether an egg is a proto-chicken egg or a chicken egg? An egg is formed by the action of maternal genes, so it will have the characteristics given to it by the proto-chicken mother. But if you just define an egg that hatches a chicken as a chicken egg (rather than an egg laid by a chicken), the egg always comes first.

This post feels like gaslighting.

The roving gangs in the original Mad Max movies were anarchist combat collectives. They’d probably work like that.

i before e except after c.

I don’t think it’s a great article. They mention January 17 rule changes without mentioning Biden was still in office. But they do talk about opposing views of Miller and Musk and Trump’s waffling.

I don’t think many of the commenters so far have read the article.

I had to check. We’re both right / wrong. Difference is about 1.5 sizes.

Minus 2 in US

How often in US democracy does the person with the most votes lose? Even just on the national level, there are several hundreds of people elected every other year.

If you mean the Presidential election, it has only happened 5 times in 200 years.

Referendums are called propositions in the US and are voted on at the state level. Special interests pay tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptive TV ads for or against propositions. The messages tend to be very dumbed down because the average person is too stupid to vote for anything beyond a simple slogan.

Direct democracy leads to a lot of idiot things getting done. Representative democracy was better for a while, but you still get Nazis coming to power from time to time.

Churchill had it about right:

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

So until Japan does that, everything they do or say is not newsworthy?

I may be a Luddite, but I never use the Auto setting for the cars ventilation system. I also don’t want A/C on with heating. If it’s cool outside, I’d rather run the fan harder with no A/C.

At the risk of being impolite, it reeks of cuckoo.

Your dog will enjoy his special day but then be disappointed it didn’t happen again the next day. Then he’ll get used to normal days until the following year.

Indeed, and the distraction from the point that someone was complaining about having to read about Reddit in a Reddit community was not worth the tangent.

Are you talking about this magazine?

You’re not going to get dinner and a movie out of a bear.

You must have a lot of bears in your old neighborhood.

Octopuses have 8 arms and no legs. They’d probably wear halter tops.

Another dead whistleblower?!?

This post gives me a good idea for a new name for a group of clams.