Why?
Anyways instead of paper ballots, use silver tokens with as many boxes as there are candidates.
Then just weigh the boxes and don’t bother counting.
(A 1oz silver token would cost $30 to fake)
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Anyways instead of paper ballots, use silver tokens with as many boxes as there are candidates.
Then just weigh the boxes and don’t bother counting.
(A 1oz silver token would cost $30 to fake)
Gold is an amazing element with very many applications. Due to its rarity on the mantle and difficulty in extracting it we use inferior, still expensive, but far more affordable alternatives (I.e. copper for many, but not all, applications).
Othewise your mobo manufacturer wouldn’t have blown it’s margins putting gold traces. And a Chinese “recycler” wouldn’t give up their health to recover it.
And this is without going into the aesthetics of gold. As engineers I guess many of us are uncomfortable with something as hard to quantity as aesthetics, but Au is almost universally considered pretty. Few metals aren’t off grey, and those that are tarnish.
So no, there wasn’t a council of info-Europeans and African tribes 10k years ago to decide that Au is worth a lot just because.
What if homosexuality is a naturally occurring trait that arises more frequently in the presence of environmental pollutants (say endocrine disruptors or whatever causes allergies)?
This is not implausible; in fact I’d be surprised if it weren’t probable (that enviromental pollutants affect human brain development and therefore sexuality)
What are the consequences or the course of action -if any - that should be taken?