Yeah, it’s great to be safe in your country. I enjoy it too, fortunately. But it’s not the same everywhere.

In totalitarian countries, those who listen to certain types of music are persecuted, because it links them with demografic that can be threatening to the regime. Even if your country is not totalitarian now, the existence of this data could be potentionally harmful to you in the future (just like any data, really).

I need to see the after pic.

No civil war. The transition to dictatorship and religious totality seems to go smoothly.

There’s no botanical meaning of vegetable. That’s a cooking term. In botany, you have different parts of the plant, like fruit, stem or root, you have different groups of plants, like the ginger family or monocots. And you can say a plant is edible or useful.

I think you don’t need to identify as anything. You’re you and you’re doing it well. Good luck in all you choose to do!

At the same time, people shouldn’t tolerate toxic environment.

Yes, it is obnoxious.

Based on other responses, I’d say English, Chinese and Spanish cover a lot of territorry. Are there any suggestions for African and Indian languages? In general I think it’s logical to look for languages of nations with big cultural influence on other countries.

Yes, but even if we used the resources better, we would still come to a limit, just later. Eternal population growth is nonsense.

Not really. Babies have brown fat as default. Adults have white fat which can turn brown in response to cold exposure (not as much as in babies, so it’s also called beige fat). Brown of beige though, it works the same - there’s a high count of mitochondria in the cells and the tissue can produce heat and make you feel (and be) warmer. It also helps with weight loss, stimulates the immune system and lowers inflammation.

That’s probably an artefact of the electron microscopy preparation. Irl they’re translucent and they’re even cuter when they move: https://www.shutterstock.com/cs/video/clip-1039663166-tardigrade-high-quality-footage-video-water-bear

Not everyone in this comment section uses correct nomenclature. It would be preferable for those bugged by it to use empathy to understand the true meaning of the comments (or, if impossible, to ask politely about the meaning) and to correct the mistakes in a nice way, avoiding the urge to take the wrong words litterally - that doesn’t add to the discussion.

I always imagined the rock makes the scissors blunt. That would work for a stick too.

It wasn’t to me. Thanks.

I’m afraid that’s it.

I was hoping I didn’t.

I like both your explanation of the prevailing answers here and your proposed use of the button - it all makes sense!

The rare mammal in question is the long-beaked echidna.

Which two animals do you mean?