bregma

My lawn, like what I consider a 'typical' lawn, is grass. Grasses spread through rhizomes. Rhizomes are one of the things that define grasses. The rhizomes are what let the grass survive going dormant in the hot and dry summer, the frozen ground and deep snow cover in the winter, and the frequent fires every few decades for which the entire local ecosystem is heavily adapted. And yes, grasses will reproduce sexually as well if left uncut/ungrazed/unburnt.

You point was that lawns are not normal. My point is that lawns are completely normal, at least where I live.

Not just any Roman soldier, he portrayed Lucius Aelius Sejanus, who effectively created the Praetorian Guard. With a full head of curly hair.

Neaderthals are classified as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, we are classified as Homo sapiens sapiens.

Of course, it depends on who you are reading. There are plenty of disagreements on taxonomy among the published academics and 19th-century literature is still influential, and pop-sci writers and their AI pets rarely do thorough research.

Just last week I was in the Coa valley in the iberian penninsula observing upper paleolithic rock art that could only be credited to Neanderthals (because there is zero evidence sapiens has migrated to Portugal 35,000 years ago; Spain was still covered in ice sheets and provided a physical barrier). Excavations had found stone tools and even a burial at nearby sites. Chances are really really good you wouldn't be able to pick out a Neanderthal if one were wearing modern dress walking down the street. Those academics who classify them as a separate species are merely propagating old imperialistic beliefs from the 19th century.

But where I live there are larges areas of native grass that evolved to being trimmed short by grazers, spreading eagerly through rhizomes as a survival trait because of frequent brush fires. It gets killed by leaves every spring and spreads back by the fall but after a burn the trees are gone and its one of the early succession pioneers. A maintained lawn is just holding a post-burn condition in stasis.

Simplistic answers really work best when things are complicated philosophical questions.

Is that really a problem? And if it is, it will resolve itself soon enough.

Neanderthals were fully human. They were the same species (Homo sapiens) as us. We could interbreed and produce viable offspring and we often has similar customs (burial of the dead, lithic art, tool manufacture and use). There was no coexistence with a quasi-human "race", there was just coexistence with different peoples.

English is still strongly gendered: the animate and inanimate genders are everywhere. The masculine/feminine subgenders are still present in pronouns of the animate gender.

If English were to truly evolve to be non-gendered, there would be no "he/him/them" or "she/her/them", only "it/that/those".

At least playing Factorio 18 hours a day would keep them out of our faces for the duration of their term in office.

This is an incredibly disingenuous and specious argument.

The discussion is about US wine production and consumption. You present the aggregate total vale of all US exports in US dollars to 6 significant digits. Does the variance of the volume of wine exports in litres even show up in those 6 signifcant digits?

Consider: (1) is six significant digits of precision justified, or is it insignificant accurancy? (2) Do those aggregate numbers take into account inflation? (3) Do those aggregate numbers take into account the (not insignificant) devaluation of the US dollar? (4) Do those aggregate numbers include both goods and services?

No, if you were to make an honest argument by quoting US exports, you need to limit it to the volume of US wine exports in litres. Misdirection can be a great tool of propaganda but is not a useful contribution to interesting intellectual discourse.

Then you stack the courts with bent judges. I mean, what's the point of taking all that money if it doesn't get you what you want?

Do you really think he'll bother running for a third term when all he needs to do is declare the election results invalid and stay in office?

A bolt of broadcloth is far less titillating than the thought of touching someone's smalls.

In other words you could say constraint is the progenitor of creativity.

Is there a named meat option?