You've asked the billion-trillion dollar question that ultimately gets into arguments about the existence of "souls" or if consciousness is an emergent property of complexity. This is a question far bigger than ELI5. It's actually unanswered even at the ELIhave-a-PhD-in-a-relevant-field level.

It’s not the same cold, it has wandered around Brazil finding itself all summer and has mutated into a slightly different strain. Same symptoms, but different surface markers.

Now it’s back with a fake mustache and your immune system doesn’t recognize it anymore.

It's not the same cold. It's a slightly mutated version of last years' cold. This feels like a non-answer, but I have to ask, OP, if you understand natural selection, mutation, and microevolution?

Like throwing a cigarette into kerosene, one degree less and it’s all fine and one degree more goodbye room.

Because you want to engage people. You want people to see your listing, and since people often search by lowest price available, more people will see your listing if you start the bidding low.

Similarly, if the bidding starts low, but several people bid on it, it seems like demand for that item is higher and people become more willing to bid higher on that item.

That just sounds like a great way to have it slip off.

Skyn is excellent. Now that they have a 'big guy' size, I'm thrilled to be able to use them on everyone. For traditional latex I like Lifestyles Kyng (big), Kimono XL (normal), Crown Skinless Skin (normal to snug) and regular Kimono (snug)

Here’s a question for you (if you don’t mind answering!).

If you calculate what you can afford to pay per month when taking out a mortgage, are you better going for a lower repayment then overpaying the difference or just taking it out based on the max you can afford?

(I realise it’s stupid to take out the absolute max you can afford and should budget for rate increases, changes in circumstances, etc. but let’s go with it for the sake of this example).

ribs/bumps are meant to simulate the feeling of the natural foreskin

thinner condoms are meant to transmit heat

always put lube inside of the condom for the wearer's benefit!

Also isn’t it curious that humans are the only species to drink another species milk? And why not dog milk- or rat milk? Think of the lattes that could come from the subways of NYC ?! :P

No kidding. Cog dissonance am I right?

The same reason a hat doesn't protect your head in a motorcycle accident. That's not the intent of the design. You need a helmet.

If you want to protect your hearing, you need physical cups that go over your ears and actually BLOCKS the sound waves. Noise cancelation can be added on top of it for a better experience. But it isn't going to do the job by itself. Noise cancelation isn't a force field.

Yeah they only give milk because they are mothers, and unfortunately a lot of horrible stuff happens in dairy production to both the mothers and the babies.
I highly recommend this documentary narrated by Joaquim Phoenix starting at 53:04 for a behind the scenes look of dairy.

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So based on that. Would the sound from outside slowly fade out as they would leave space? Thank you for your answer btw :)

http://watchdominion.org for more information on this.

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To put this in context of how exploitative the dairy industry is, the natural life cycle of a dairy cow is about 20 years.

Another thing to consider is that there will be a higher ratio of retirees collecting pensions vs. workers paying into the retirement system, which would mean higher taxes on workers to pay for those retirees' benefits.

That's correct. And that's why animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation. Forests are being cleared to grow soy as feed for animals.

The problem is that this is very uncharted territory - socially, economically etc. Japan is not a small country - it still has 125 million people and it is fairly wealthy by global standards.

A "home" cannot be thought of simply as walls, rooms and a roof. Think about all the other things that come with it - roads, electricity, water, sewage etc. You'll need shops, hospitals, police, government etc to support a community. So you cannot take a simplistic view that all of this "comes for free" or "will always exist".

Infrastructure and social services need a workforce. Power stations grow old and need maintenance and replacement. Roads don't repair themselves. People need to eat. People get sick and get into accidents.

How does a large country provide for this if 40% of their citizens are retired and need additional care? Can the working population grow enough food, make enough product, etc etc if this happens?

People retire and lean on government services for healthcare and supplemental income - money that has to come from somewhere.

These systems rely on there being more workers paying taxes than retirees, and can’t survive when there are more old people than young people.

There are also broader geopolitical concerns - working age people form the core of your nations economic and military might. As that core shrinks, your nation becomes weaker in both a literal and economic sense.

For an island nation with a literally and economically hostile authoritarian power right across the pond, this is a grave concern.

I really can't say that I've ever been on the edge of a building, and been afraid of MY IMPULSE to throw myself off. And I've literally sat on a 10 story parking garage, like with my legs over the side of the building just you know sitting there like on a bench. I mean I knew that I could very well maintain my balance, I'm not afraid of heights, so really neither fear applied to me there. But never have I been afraid because I have a choice to jump. I mean that could apply while I'm walking down the street. I might just decide to jump in front of this truck. I understand the concept of what he was trying to say, I just don't think his delivery is very good. I think I have pictures of that, I mean of me sitting on the top of that building. I'm grandma though I don't know how to add pictures. Can you even do that?

"high welfare veal" lmao what an oxymoron

Selective breeding. The cow as you know it, just like every farm animal, never existed in the wild. The caw was slowly domesticated from the wild Auroch.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs

Making too much milk is just a part of this process. Just like how a sheep will die from growing too much wool if let free.