Technically, if he is convinced then it’s convincing evidence. The fact that you and I are not convinced is a separate matter.

What is a reasonable person?

A 100% rational person? Probably not. A person who was smart enough to do well in school and keep a well paying job? Yes.

There is one village in Nigeria where the men and women speak different languages. Not sure if that is a satisfactory answer.

You tend to be generous with what you discard because you don’t want to eat lead.

I could only find one report where they measured Pb in blood. People who self reported eating game meat in Utah had 30% higher lead levels than people who did not.

It’s good that someone studies this so I don’t have to.

Don’t know what they do over there, but we usually get the lungs and guts out as soon as possible in order to keep the meat from spoiling. Long lived predators that likes to scavenge can develop lead poisoning from those remains if it’s their main source of food.

If confusing with rocks was the main source you’d expect it to be just as common in other birds.

How do you persuade them that you’re right or how do you come up with an argument that makes you feel like your chosen ideology does not have any flaws?

The first: you probably can’t. They are just as set in their world view like anyone else arguing on the Internet, including you and me.

Second: accept that all ideologies have flaws. Policies however well meaning have to survive contact with reality first and foremost. Or in this case reality has to survive contact with the policy.

Your mind is a powerful thing. I’m not saying what you experience is not real, in fact you never experience anything without it being through your mind. It’s a shame we’re not given the operating manual for our minds at birth.

Does it happen on weekends or days when you don’t have to go out too?

And for what it’s worth your eyes look good at least.

My chili recepie has beans in it, otherwise it’s not chili in my book. Anyway you did not invite me to eat it so I don’t really have any right to complain.

I’d add onion, paprika, and garlic to your mix.

When the price goes up it’s because the renewables don’t produce power when there is no wind and sun (which pretty much sums up January here). Building more of something that does not produce power is not going to help with the price shocks.

We need to figure out grid scale storage, fusion or build nuclear power to get rid of fossil fuels. Until then utility bills will be occasionally more shocking than jamming a fork in the outlet.

My advice is not to try to make him mean.

If you want him to protect your home you can train him to bark at strangers when at home.

You don’t win elections by convincing the far left/ right to vote for you. They will vote for/against you no matter what (or abstain from voting because they see you as equally too far left/right as your opponent).

You win by convincing the undecided voters in the middle. Every vote you gain from the center is also a vote your opponent lose.

Convince them you’ll give them better living standards and they won’t care what you do with foregin policy and minority rights.

Convince them that your priorities is minorities and foregin policy and they will tell you that it’s all good and well but they are about to lose their job and the cost of living is going up so they are just going to vote for the other guy that promises to fix that.

I pretend that the button does a “cha ching” sound every time I press it. I’m paid the same hourly rate for doing my job or dismissing microsoft dialog buttons.

Where do you draw the line? Is only the most miserable person in the world allowed to complain? The bottom 10%? How do you compare someone who was piss poor but loved to someone who was rich but beaten?

Either way I think complaining about the past is a curse you put on yourself and any poor soul that you force to listen. You can tell your story, everyone has one, but complaining should be saved for something that can change in the future.

Looking at buying a house. Will get my first factory new hunting rifle, not pre owned as before. Over all things are heading in the right direction for me personally.

Doing homework teaches you to do stuff you don’t necessarily like without someone watching over your shoulder and telling you to.

Yeah that was me. Come home from school after eating a big school lunch, eat a quarter loaf of bread and 1L milk. Have a 2 hour nap, eat 2 servings for dinner, ask if anyone else wants more before scraping the leftovers in the pots and pans onto my plate.

I’d probably say mint, reasonably newbie friendly. I’ve not tried Bazzite but I hear good things about it.

I currently run Arch btw, it’s not what I’d recommend as a first distro.

Anyway don’t over think it. Get something easy up and running and after a while get curious or annoyed and try something else.

Hope you have an AMD gpu. Been a while since I had a Nvidia but they were twice as annoying to deal with some 7 years ago.

Wherever you land on a 1-10 scale of attractiveness you’ll get about +2 to +3 if you’re funny.

Smell and taste of eggs alone is tolerable but not good. Have to add at least salt to boiled eggs to make them taste OK. Not a huge fan of omelette or fried eggs either but if you put food in front of me I’ll probably eat it.

This has changed over the years. Used to hate them until I was about 25 and just mildly dislike them until 30.

No. Governments (Central banks usually in charge of this) try to create mild inflation to discourage hoarding money.

The rich also don’t horde money, they hoard assets. Usually stocks in companies.

Inflation is caused by there being more and more money in circulation competing for the same stuff, or less stuff produced.

Wealth inequality cause a lot of problems, inflation is not one of them.