Recent content by hungrywing

I agree. Okay, which would also not make them holobionts, which, again, are a subcategory of superorganism. At least per wikipedia. Again, personally I don't care about anything except would YOU draw the line? 'Individual' genetic sequence, end of story? But then what about stuff like...

If modern society had any idea what it was doing, it'd get all the corporate lawyers to start suing each other recursively regarding copyright until they were all reduced to ash.

What are said problems, in your opinion? EDIT: noting that under the wiki (lol) for superorganism, it says- -which I'm sure you checked before you posted in your eagerness to 'be right'. And AGAIN, this is absolutely not a 'pissing contest', at least from this end (for hard-to-explain...

The first of those is the one I was actually looking for at the time. Thank you.

I suppose it's (partially) a function of my non-use of smilies. Either way, I apologize. My default switch is rimaldo. The lead in *was* 'mighty' sharks being useless without 'lowly bottom-feeders', right? All insults end up resulting in the same amount of violence as unspeakable things, so...

Just don't go on twitter. That is pretty darn informative. Very reminiscent of the explanation of blockbuster film score convergence/homogenization. EDIT: link included for the four people who haven't seen it

Not everyone can conceptualize further and further how much. No real reason to get angry when someone presents the opportunity, yet your default was to do so. Right? I didn't contradict the sharks thing. You're the one who bristled when said opportunity was presented. And the one who's...

But pigeons don't like dinosaurs kind of like children don't like their parents.

Manchester United (xG 3.67) 0-2 Southampton (xG 0.43)

Have you ever heard of this? That in theory is the ideal. In practice, the bolded part is where things usually go wrong - whether it's the 'nobility' in France a few hundred years ago or influencers and the digital priesthood/papacy of today. Ooh...

I agree - in principle (teehee) - but the bolded part is impossible to achieve when the second-tier will always act against it. (We're clearly talking about the same thing.) That second-rate tier will always try and act to elevate themselves above said principle. The 'get paid what I'm worth'...

Think of it this way: would anyone like to be the executive walking into a transfer window full of his/her peers after having taken Maguire off United's hands?

Unfortunately, the issue stems a huge amount from a function of human intelligence distribution. It's the result of this: out of a million people, there are ten-thousand in the 1%. These people clump together as the 'smart' people - your doctors, lawyers, some PhDs etc. And that group is large...