You’re right, I must have misremembered that. I totally thought that it was explicitly stated in this parable.

All guests were given the garment for free.

So maybe he thought his own garment was better than the one provided by the host, which it wasn’t.

I got another one:

The -40° acute angle of your neck

Yeah… the -40° and the opened abdomen

Plus it explains like the reader is kinda dumb

Everything south to Panama and the whole Caribbean is part of North America.

Continental Europe is about 10 M km^2 (I subtracted the UK and Iceland for you) Th US is about 9,5 M km^2

So about the same, which is impressive, but it doesn’t hold you captive. You can still go to other countries on holiday.

Also there are a ton of native languages within the US plus settler languages like Tejano and Pennsylvanian Dutch. So if one wanted to have a cultural vacation, it would be possible.

Drop in the bucket of this countries history and, in the end, nothing’s going to be done. Significant portion of our population still believes this was a good thing. Of those that even remember this that is.

Significant portion || of those that even remember this || that is.

The “that is” is a clarifier, similar to “is what I meant”.

Significant portion of our population still believes this was a good thing. Of those that even remember this, is what I meant.

Maybe a comma would’ve helped.

What about @melonhusk and @skulnemo?

The joke… you found it

Getting hit by a star doesn’t sound that much better

Actually when I lived off grid for 80 years, we used 7 AAA batteries on a rotation and recharged them by rubbing them on our wool sweaters, so those guys are totally right.

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Recessive isn’t always bad. In fact, many (maybe all) genetic traits have a dominant and a recessive information.

For example peas. Let’s say there is a gene for colour. The dominant variation of the colour gene carries the information “green”. Let’s call this gene c for colour. Then there is a recessive variation with the information yellow.

We’ll write the dominant information as capital C and the recessive as lowercase c.

Now there is a pea with the genetic information CC (one from each parent). That’s a green pea.

Then there is one with Cc (father green, mother yellow). But you see the pea and it looks just like a green pea. Because the green gene C is dominant and the yellow c is recessive. You don’t know, that this is a mixed variety.

If two seemingly green peas pollinate each other, but under the hood, they are Cc, then they might produce a cc yellow pea.

For a lot of genetic information that’s not a problem, they are just different characteristics and not harmful.

But if you have B = your blood coagulates normally, and b = your blood doesn’t thicken, you just bleed out and die when you have a paper cut…

Then inheriting b from both of your parents is a terrible fate.

This happened in the House of Saxe-Cobourg and other nobility in the 19th century.

Edit: the last part is actually a bit more complicated, but the explanation of dominant and recessive still works.