The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XIX

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You don't neccessarily have to put them in zoos to encourage them to breed the way you want.


Some animals we can't get to breed at all in captivity. You may be able to train such animals, but how do you domesticate them?
 
So there are a lot of 9/11 tributes today, but why?

Current climate in the U.S. has turned against 1%'ers. So why mourn their loss 11 years ago? Almost everyone in the towers were making a lot of money I'm sure. I can't say for sure if they were in the top 1%, but most likely in the top 5%.

With the hatred Americans have against the rich, why do they mourn those who died on 9/11? It seems like hypocrisy to me.
 
It's one thing to think that some people are giving you a raw deal and are selfish. It's another to wish for their murder.
 
Current climate in the U.S. has turned against 1%'ers. So why mourn their loss 11 years ago? Almost everyone in the towers were making a lot of money I'm sure. I can't say for sure if they were in the top 1%, but most likely in the top 5%.
Of course you have a pile of support staff and other low level workers that wouldn't be near the top income earners. Receptionists, secretaries, janitors, clerks, etc. They would represent a significant portion of not a majority of the people there.
 
It's one thing to think that some people are giving you a raw deal and are selfish. It's another to wish for their murder.
Exactly. No matter who or what they are, they were innocent lives that were mass-murdered. End of story.
 
But is it murder if it was the actions of the U.S. that directly led to 9/11?

The U.S. has proven that civilians are an acceptable target in WW2. Do terrorists not have the right to fight a war in any way possible?

And I did not mention the Pentagon, but that's an acceptable military target.

Yes I am claiming the terrorists did have a right to attack the U.S. If we had not supported Israel and put bases on holy land, then yes I would be more outraged by 9/11. As you can guess I'm more of an isolationist and believe in withdrawing U.S. forces from the middle East (why I voted for Obama who vowed to end both wars)
 
War, if you would choose to call it that, is always murder regardless of justification. It's made all the worse for the fact that it is formalized. I can see no tragedy more fitting for a national sorrow that crosses typical lines of chest-pounding acrimony over whose pile of beans is larger than being sorry for that which is the very worst in us as a whole.
 
The U.S. has proven that civilians are an acceptable target in WW2.
The Second World War was not a war waged by the United States on the civilians of Germany, Germany's allies, and Japan.

It was a war waged by all participatory governments against the civilians of all other participatory governments. Just as Napoleon and the British had intended to fight their wars "to the last European", the likes of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin intended to fight their wars to the last noncombatant.

The Americans were only unusual in that nobody else could easily get at most of their civilians.
 
So there are a lot of 9/11 tributes today, but why?

Current climate in the U.S. has turned against 1%'ers. So why mourn their loss 11 years ago? Almost everyone in the towers were making a lot of money I'm sure. I can't say for sure if they were in the top 1%, but most likely in the top 5%.

With the hatred Americans have against the rich, why do they mourn those who died on 9/11? It seems like hypocrisy to me.
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What is the best way to clean calamine lotion off a wood floor? I dropped the bottle and when I used a paper towel it just made it go everywhere on the floor.
 
Depends on what the coating on the floor is made from? A diluted mixture of warm water and dish soap might pick up the remaining smears with a paper towel, you will probably need to gently rinse the soap off with a washcloth with only water on it when you are done, then dry the floor thoroughly. Some wood floors are tough, some you have to be careful with. Hard to tell!
 
Do textbook covers really do anything? They seem way to flimsy to me. Isn't the point of the hard cover to protect the book? Why get a second one?
 
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