An average bowling ball is 8.5 inches in diameter, giving it a cross sectional surface area of roughly 60 sq in. Restricting ourselves to feathers made by non-human animals, the longest feather measured was on a Yokohama chicken at 34 feet / 400+ inches. I can’t find the width of the feather, but it’s still likely it outdoes an average bowling ball.

Huge missed opportunity: could have been God made Adam and Eve, not Maple and Leaf

A feather has smaller surface area than a bowling ball.

Depends on the feather and the bowling ball. Even relatively small (by volume) feathers might outdo a bowling ball thanks to the numerous fine shapes they have.

Common core made an effort to teach kids to think about numbers this way and people flipped the fuck out because that wasn’t how they were taught. Still mad about that.

If you want to learn more about it than is frankly reasonable, Jamie Loftus recorded a detailed history including an interview with Naomi H.

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I get not voting for Harris. Voting for Trump, though? That’s contemptible.

Even if his quote was historically accurate, it would still be abhorrent. And if you pointed out his mistakes, he wouldn’t have reconsidered his views. He didn’t hate Jewish people because he incorrectly thought they were cowards, he incorrectly thought they were cowards because he hated them.

none were reasons that merits killing jews

Yes, because there is no reason that merits killing anyone based on their ethnicity.

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It was a joke about Jewish space lasers. I apologize to anyone I alarmed or offended.

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Necessary clean energy. Asked and answered.

Easier travel is definitely a great reason to increase density. Walking & biking > cars

If the island were 100 times larger, the houses would take 1% of the land area, leaving 99%. The apartment complex would take up .04%, leaving 99.96%, which isn’t much of an improvement. The proportions of our planet are much closer to my scenario than this made up island. That’s a reason why we might not “prefer apartments in our own town.”

There are good reasons you might want density, this just isn’t one of them.

migrants were capturing the geese from the local park pond and eating them

This is totally fine by me, I don’t see the problem

Came here to say this. Cops kill just so many dogs.

Good question! I have heard that there are people who exchange money for labor, and I require money to purchase basic necessities such as food and shelter

IIRC that’s a plot in Beasts of Burden. It’s a good read regardless. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7703037-beasts-of-burden

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