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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • It’s interesting about native species. Think about apple trees in the UK. They grow very well here, the climate is suited perfectly, they don’t seem to be invasive (talking as a layperson here). Yet they were introduced about 2000 years ago by the Romans. Does that mean they’re old enough to now count as native? I mean, if you go back far enough, everything came from somewhere else. Unless you’re looking at a deep-sea vent where life very first evolved, then it has spread from somewhere else.

    Maybe if I was a botanist or ecologist, I would know the actual answer. But I’m just a person who loves thinking about things in a philosophical way, without necessarily wanting to research in-depth answers for every little puzzle








  • I don’t understand why the age of the law is being highlighted so much. The prohibition against murder is probably one of the oldest laws in most societies, but its age doesn’t get dragged up all the time. And remember, a lot of the dipshits that want to ban abortion believe that it is literally the same as murdering a post-birth baby

    EDIT: some people seem to be misunderstanding my point, which is probably my fault. If that same law was passed today, it would still be unjust. It’s the contents of the law that matter rather than its age, which is completely incidental.