It's like clear-cutting an old-growth forest, and then replanting acorns. The forest simply won't return to anything like its original state for many decades - if ever.

The entire county lost power for about 8 hours. From the social media posts, you would have thought people were undergoing severe hardship, because they had to wait 1/3 of a day for their propane-heated showers. Also, some were angry that the county hadn't done more to plan for these situations... which happen maybe once every decade or so.

I get what you're saying, but a downside to what you're describing is guaranteed waste of food. If food is prepared based on expectations, there's no way that all the food will be ordered before it goes cold/end of hours, and has to be dumped.

I'll additionally add in summation, there's fewer jobs that people want than people who want them.

I shudder to think how he'll review Bill Shakespeare's romcom, after growing up on West Side Story.

Every scene has a place. Every exchange has a quotable line.

The soundtrack, however, is like the Library of Congress authorized the American Anthology of Awesome Blues, and hired God to produce it.

Different levels of observation.

It's hard to exaggerate about the historically-documented third-worst murderer in history. But it can technically be done.

> He didn't accumulate any wealth for himself.

Remind me of when he had to wait in a breadline, again?

The still on-going genocide of non-Han ethnic groups did produce a slight tension.

He was too young when they were in Soviet-controlled Ukraine to trust with the mother tongue of his people. The State might discover they were secretly preserving the language.

Fun times.

Also, Occam's Razor, but here I risk Muphry's Law.

You just assigned intent to evolution. Evolutionary theory emphatically avoids, even precludes, intent.

Furthermore, the "mathematics created by the physics and chemistry of the brain" is only our modeled attempt to describe the actual "physics and chemistry of the world". The two ideas are separated by so many layers of complexity that work should be shown to establish that there is, in fact, circularity in the process. (Water molecules are bound by electromagnetism, but this did not cause us to build Maxwell's Laws with our watery brains.)

I never get the feeling that she is guessing. She is confident in her sphere of knowledge.