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You know getting a progressive President wouldn't have gotten us any closer to abortion rights? Unlike Trump, we actually follow our separation of powers principles, which means the Pres has limited authority. You expect us to just ignore court orders and the legislature like Trump does or something?

A law enshrining abortion rights would require a filibuster-proof Senate majority and control of the House.

I'm all for being critical of the DNC, but we should be clear-eyed on how governing actually works. Also, pretty hard to say Harris was less progressive than Obama, her Senate voting record was pretty damn progressive.

Certainly. But we still cannot say that should mean every beneficial mutation for their lives was likely to be adopted. Like I said earlier, the majority of possibly good things are left on the table, even when drawbacks are not considered.

Including drawbacks muddies it up even further, we can look at how cardiovascular shock occurs and how the particular traits that create it were a bit of a double edged sword.

But what is the likelihood of this autonomous stress relieving function arising, how many mutations would be required to implement such a thing? Would it have any significant drawbacks or side effects in other aspects of our biology?

You can't look only at the propagation side of things.

Another thing, stress isn't event based per se. It's more of a floating value that always exists to a certain degree and provides both positive and negative effects at different levels and in different situations. The negative health impacts come in when it remains high for a long period of time. So what we'd really want to look at is something like the frequency of headpats given to your dog or something, and the effects of this compared to other potential stress relieving activities like meditation.

Lastly, I would check your data on pet availability, I think it'd be far, far higher than 10%.

Negative health outcomes are an evolutionary pressure.

Also, evolution does not work from a plan, we do not spontaneously generate all the things that would benefit us over a long enough timeframe. Instead, random things happen and certain ones propagate while others don't. Because it is not a conscious force operating from any sort of plan, and instead works via random mutation and propagation of beneficial traits, it leaves a whole bunch of potentially beneficial things unadopted.

Otherwise all life would just move towards some sort of optimal form, maybe crabs, instead of evolving greater and greater diversity that can better handle changing environments.

One I can think of would be stress relief. Stress contributes to a lot of negative health outcomes, and cuddling with a pet can help mitigate some of that stress. Wouldn't surprise me if amount of stress also has a more general effect on overall decisionmaking.

Meh. Let me just ask my buddy Pete what's going on, he'll have all the details.

Dual citizenship is probably a bit premature, I doubt you need to concern yourself with that just yet. I would probably have a few places picked out as likely options for a work visa though, after doing some basic research into pay grade vs cost of living and how much you like/would fit in with the local culture.

You probably already have a vague idea of which countries you might enjoy living it.

So let me get this straight, you think some hitman posed, as a school bus driver of all things, to assassinate her, and that failing, she's so important that someone else gets sent in to get her?

Occam's Razor is dead.

Gotta say, this smells a little like a top tier troll post. That out of the way, I also would like someone to carry around peanut M&Ms for me.

Yeah, that's kinda silly. I can see an argument that WWE wrestlers are athletes, no problems there. But they don't actually perform in any sort of athletic competition, which makes thinking of it as a "sport" a little weird. If WWE is a sport, then so is ballet.

Whatever. Yo momma so fat every step she takes gets picked up by LIGO.

lol Now I'm going to spend the rest of the day trying to think of a good general relativity based yo momma joke...

tbf, "manipulating time and space" is a pretty low bar to clear. You're manipulating time and space sitting in your chair, given that under general relativit,y spacetime warps around any mass present.

I'm curious too. I would google her, but the number of Dr Lisa Andersons from Pennsylvania is probably fairly significant. It's not a small state or anything.

Sure I did. Not that it was particularly hard since you didn't support your point with anything. A single sentence of rando internet opinion isn't too tough to deal with.

Then I'd just go with the examples the other guys gave, it's good stuff, and they're probably more current than I am. Banter is fun, you're doing really well if you're both laughing. I liked that shoulder squeeze litmus test thing one guy mentioned, that's a good move. Anything you can back off from pretty easily like that without feeling like a dick is fine.

We're all being vague intentionally, though, nobody can give a script for it. Any script is a bad script, it all just varies too much. Back to what I originally said, this isn't really answerable in a forum discussion, not well anyway. Everything has to be either really vague, or risk being wrong for you. And I'm not some self help guru willing to take that risk of giving advice that very well might not work, just so I can sell a book or get youtube views or something.

I wouldn't sweat it too much. It's the sort of thing everyone needs to learn by practicing, that's how everybody who is any good at it got there.

If it worries you, maybe start with innocuous compliments, things like that whatever looks cute, you have a pretty voice, stuff like that. Don't have to press, you're not trying to get anywhere or anything, just build up some starter confidence in expressing yourself. Like the other guys said, if someone doesn't seem receptive, don't sweat it, just back off. Nothing wrong with a compliment.

It's a trial and error thing, though, and you'll develop your own style over time.

The other people in the thread provided some solid advice that included some loose examples. It's a tough thing to go into detail on without writing a book half full of caveats though. I don't want to try recommending a method or anything, because there kinda is no method to it. That I can think of anyway, that will be any sort of consistent.

Uh, no, not really, I don't think the reserve currency makes China subservient to us in any way, shape or form. It's not like the US can somehow remote control the dollars in distribution out in the world, or somehow control who gets them and who doesn't. Under our capitalist system, anyone can get their hands on some if they really want. There's also nothing really stopping them from buying a bunch of Euros too, and honestly, they probably have a bunch of those in savings as well. And some Japanese yen, Korean won, etc etc etc, alongside gold and everything else under the sun. That's just smart diversification of assets.

Being the global reserve of preference for everybody does confer a certain advantage in ease of trade, but it's really overblown. It's not like the Euro or Yuan is some worthless scrap of paper nobody wants. It definitely doesn't confer any sort of control.

Any other thoughts?

By that logic, China is currently subservient to the US. Is it?