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non sequitur

weird. isn't self discovery a worthwhile goal?

from the paper:

"This furin-like cleavage site, is supposed to be cleaved during virus egress (Mille and Whittaker, 2014) for S-protein “priming” and may provide a gain-of-function to the 2019-nCoV for efficient spreading in the human population compared to other lineage b betacoronaviruses. This possibly illustrates a convergent evolution pathway between unrelated CoVs. "

Doesn't that just mean "average"?

> weed is certainly the weakest of drugs (including alcohol) wrt harm for the body.

is the brain a part of the body?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930618/

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/11/marijuana-brain

It appears that the first system for paying people to return bottles was started in 1799.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container-deposit_legislation

they still are available. Check out whitepages.com

sorry about the repetition of your point. I recently hit my head.

quite true, but I feel like the "mother at home" cultural artifact still feels older in modern (european/american) human's psyche. It wasn't the best system, but it feels like the system that most of our societal changes have been seeking to rectify.

Your point about the 19th century is also interesting as its (mother at home) origins in that time period may explain why it's so ingrained and also deemed the default. It arose during the time of the biggest jump in human technological advancement (industrial revolution). Most of the propaganda for it references this correlation and uses it as a justification.

I don't agree with this sort of connection, but it is interesting to note.

> Do you mind if I ask how old you are? The rights of women to freely choose careers, and to make their own reproductive decisions, are at least several decades old.

i think OP of this subthread means "new" in the context of human society "new". Several decades is still pretty "new" if you take into account human history.