How many predators can take down prey 50 times their size?

Ants and a couple of Insects I guess. Also Bacteria and Viruses.

How many species can thrive in tundra, jungles, plains, forests, mountains and deserts?

Well, obviously also most Bacteria. If we are speaking more sentient live then the answer is: mot of them. Birds, Mammals, Insects. It might take a generation or 10 to get them adopted to their new envirment, but almost every species. Is able to adopt to their evolutoany niche.

How many species can be found on every continent?

Most of them?

How many species figured out how to fly despite never developing wings?

Technology. Yes, that’s a human thing at last, at least at the level we use it.

How many species developed hundreds of distinct methods of communication

Various species have methods of communicating, from bees dancing to each other to whales having distinct regional dialects. Yes, humans have added some complexity to it by introducing technology, but that’s realy what it comes down to. Technology.

How many species have been to the moon?

Technology, once more.

So your point is that humans have learned to use technology, therefor they are badass.

I disagree. We are living in an absolut singularity tight now. Humans have learned to use finate resources (oil for example) to amplify the energy that we have at our hands. A single humans beeing today can use energy that would be equal to thousands of men’s work every day.

Since we are drawing on finate resources there are two ways how this will go: we will learn to exploit other, less finate sources of energy (say, fusion) and the groth path will continue (to the stars, eventually). Or we will run out of energy or ruin the livable world by doing so and will fall back to an earlier level of development. Since most of the resources needed are used up we will not be able clime back up. At this moment we are on the second of those paths.

And in our way in getting here we have started the sixt mass extinction, accidentaly started turning the climate into something less sustainable for humans and polluted every single space on this planet, including areas like the deep ocean that we have never even touched physically.

Humans are not badass, in my opinion. We are fucking cancer.

Fair point I guess.

I took a look at the first ranking I saw. You a free to have a look for studys or other objective sources that come to a different conclusion.

I don’t wish to invest that time right now, but I’ll be happy to be proven wrong by a better source if you want to look for one.

Also, the higher the minimum wage, the lower the ranking.

Did some digging, you are spot on. Please see my edit of the original post.

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The category is a bit wider than that, but yes, low taxes seem to contribute.

https://www.richstatespoorstates.org/states/FL/

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Did a little digging after some flaws have been pointed out by @Silentia below. This source is not neutral.

https://ballotpedia.org/ALEC_Rich_States,_Poor_States_Report

The American Legislative Exchange Council, a nonpartisan organization of state legislators, releases an annual report entitled Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index, which analyzes economic competitiveness in each state. The report is authored by Arthur Laffer, Stephen Moore (chief economist at the Heritage Foundation), and Jonathan Williams, the director of the Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council

The Heritage Foundation is a conservative 501©(3) nonprofit think tank founded in 1973 and based in Washington, D.C.[1] In 2013, The Atlantic described the organization as “the de facto policy arm of the congressional conservative caucus.”[

Might be that they will, but for now they are doing very well on an objective scale, beeing placed on #1 for education and economy compared to the other states and beeing on #9 overall.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/florida

If this is able to hold will remain to be seen.

but humans are evolutionary badasses

How so?

New Zealand by far. Nature was just so awesome.

Have a source from me then.

But aren’t more and special cheeper EVs better for the environment? So by preventing of softening the Tariffs on Chinese EVs, BMW etc are helping the environment.

Not out of altruism, sure, but it IS a good example of capitalism working towards a greener world.

Or am I missing something?

But aren’t more and special cheeper EVs better for the environment? So by preventing of softening the Tariffs on Chinese EVs, BMW etc are helping the environment.

Not out of altruism, sure, but it IS a good example of capitalism working towards a greener world.

Or am I missing something?

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Sounds abut right (wing). This is the kind of shit I see coming for a lot of Europe, including German (where I am located). The funny thing is that they can’t stop talking about “Eco Fashism” here and how the Greens are trying to dictate their every day live (like what to eat and what to fuel their cars with) and how that is a left green dictatorship. And then shit like you bring up here the second they get elected.

Da könnte man zum Beispiel “zum Beispiel” sagen für.

Well, yes, but it is also more costly to ignore climate change and deal with the growing number of extreme weather events, draughts, etc, then to invest money into green alternatives and work towards a climate neutral economy. Yet that is, largely, still what we are doing right now globaly.

Ich verstehe, warum wir uns wehren müssen gegen den Rechten Haufen und warum Menschen dabei zu Gewalt greifen.

Es trägt nur auch dazu bei, dass die Rechten sich zu Opfern machen können und im Falle solcher inzwischen recht gehäufte Angriffe auch objektiv korrekter Weise. So machen man es halt noch einfach ein (ohnehin schon verwendetes) Feindbild der Linsextremen aufzumachen. Ich frage mich ob das nicht noch mehr Menschen in die Arme der rechten Menschenfänger treibt oder dafür sorgt, dass bereits nach rechts tendierende Menschen sich davon beeinflussen lassen.

Gewalt kann man schon benutzen. Ich frage mich halt ob es dafür nicht noch zu früh ist. Noch haben wir andere Mittel des Kampfes. Und ja, ich sehe das wir diesen Kampf derzeit verlieren. Und das macht mir auch Sorgen. Aber ist Gewalt wirklich eine Lösung dafür?

I feel you, we have that coming for us in Germany within the next 10 years.

Ich denke am sichersten das deine Stimme auch ankommt fährst du mit den Grünen.

Augenscheinlich “klimaliebende” Parteien wie Volt, die mit neoliberalem FDP-Sprech ankommen und die Atomkraft zurück wollen

Sind die so schlimm? Ich kenne die kaum, aber im Wal-O-Mat waren sie bei der letzten Landtagswahl super weit oben dabei bei mir.