How about snakes?

I heard from an expert that the usual infection comes from insufficiently washed home-grown vegetables contaminated by mouse droppings.

If you select a sufficiently short and localised subset of data, you can show almost anything. Would I be wrong to guess tjat your opinion is heavily influenced by the current state of the US? While I agree that the situation there is complete shit and something needs to happen, I would argue (admittedly without any solid data in hand) that globally, automation is helping loads of people and is going to continue to do so.

In general, it obviously is. The standard of living is rising over the last few hundred years. Many people can quite easily get things and amount and types of food that would be unthinkable just several decades ago. Many of which wouldn’t be possible to manufacture at scale, if at all, without progressing automation. Jobs shifting from production (agriculture and manufacturing) toward services are clear indication of this.

Enriching the rich disproportionately more is also happening. But that is somewhat different story with partially different causes.

So you don’t think that automating production and freeing people to do what they enjoy while improving their standard of living is a worthy goal? Yes, we are moving in the right direction, but there’s still an astonishing amount of manual labor in terrible conditions happening in poor countries to produce cheap stuff. For things that are automated elsewhere, but it would cost more than the cheap labor there. As I said, it’s sad.

And yet we’re still far from succeeding. It’s sad.

Can you not fly with it? In Europe, you can, the limit is 5 or 6 cm of blade. I regularly fly with mine.

Thanks, it honestly didn’t occur to me. Cocks have larger tails, best I could come up with was great chick.

I think Ra has a magic casting system that is a programming language.

But there are eukayotic parasites. They are even closer to us. This on its own is not an explanation.