>I think that manufacturers should sell to physical toy stores at a lower price, and actively make sure online price is the same or higher than instore. but I dont how easy this is to police or even if is legal in some countries.
These days, many brick & mortar stores are a market inefficiency. It's simply cheaper to store & ship out of centralized warehouses (as it goes when you order online) than to ship merchandise to individual stores, which themselves have limited floor space and storage space (resulting in less variety of products) as well as a smaller potential customer-base (only those who live nearby). I don't see why manufacturers should be punished by selling at a lower price in order to sustain outdated business practices.
Stores that provide additional value, having unique goods that can't be found online or have cool atmosphere or such, will be fine.
Having grown up and Oregon and lived in Los Angeles for the past 7 years -- up north it would be "I took I-5 from Seattle to Portland" while in L.A. it would be "I took the 5 from Seattle to Portland." Neither dialect uses just the number on its own.
True for more than just single digit numbers too, e.g. I-205 vs. the 405.
Disclaimer: this is proving hard from me to explain via text without the use of visualization.
Mammals did not evolve from dinosaurs. Mammals are synapsids, a branch of tetrapods. Dinosaurs come from a different branch of tetrapods entirely, called sauropsids. (There is a third branch of tetrapods, amphibia.)
Sauropsida is a really diverse branch containing both extinct and extant species. Look at the tree at the bottom of the page here [0]. A fork of interest is Sauria, which splits into lepidosauromorphs (including modern lizards & snakes) and archosauromorphs. Archosauromorphs have many branches as well (one of note being turtles), with one that traces far enough to get to archosaurs [1]. Modern crocodiles come from a branch of archosaurs. Dinosauria are another branch of archosaurs, and birds are descendants of dinosauria. They are the only extant species of dinosauria.
The confusion comes because many of these animals co-existed at the same time, some become extinct, others evolved and change and form new branches (but still belong to the parent group). The word 'Dinosaur' itself is also misapplied by the public - it's not all of the animals that lived 65+ million years ago. It's a very specific group of related animals and all of their descendants.
TLDR: Mammals didn't evolve from dinosaurs, but from a different branch further up the chain that dinosaurs also belong to. Those mammalian ancestors did co-exist with dinosaurs. Like mammals, modern reptiles didn't evolve from dinosaurs, but from ancestors that co-existed with dinosaurs. Reptiles and dinosaurs are more closely related than mammals and dinosaurs. Birds did evolve from dinosaurs, and are the only living dinosaurs today.
It's important to recognize the very real impacts that our own individual consumptions and habits have on the world around us. And I believe that everyone has a moral obligation to minimize that impact as much as feasible.
The reality is that there's an unpaid cost for many consumer goods in order to produce them at scale and at an affordable rate. Sometimes I feel that by partaking in this system you're implicitly perpetuating it. While it is difficult to give up those comforts & luxuries that we're accustomed to, humans have been around a long time without them, so we can get by without them too.
Potatoes on their own aren't empty calories. [1] One medium potato is ~150 calories but full of potassium, vit c, and other nutrients. It's when you fry them or drench them in cheese and bacon bits and sour cream or mash them with loads of butter that they become unhealthful.
An empty calorie is one that provides little to no nutritional value other than the calorie itself. In my mind the most common empty calories come from sugars, some flours, and some oils.
It's been a few years, but I remember learning about Gobekli Tepe in one of my humanities classes in college. The theory I learned is that it was a non-permanent gathering/ceremonial site (for what reason isn't exactly known), but this article neglects to mention one very interesting thing - there's trace evidence of beer at the site!
Makes you wonder what grains were used for first, beer or bread... Also the role that alcohol plays in the rise of civilization. Would these people be warring or otherwise combatitive if they didn't gather every year to drink and feast?
"However, without the context of environmental sampling of microplastics (water and sediment) or investigations into the impacts of the chemicals ingested, it is not easy to understand the impact microplastic presence will have on biology, and subsequently ecology, of deep-sea organisms. Broadly, the important individual organism effects of microplastic ingestion are being investigated (albeit mostly with microbeads rather than the more commonly found microfibres) but, given the ubiquity of microplastics in our marine environments, research should start considering population and ecosystem level effects such as differential age/cohort survival causing demographic shifts, food/prey shifts, hazard to human foods, taxa specific vulnerability etc; this is a difficult task in any marine environment, most especially the deep-sea, regardless it is still an important challenge to undertake."
Water in Southern California is a complex issue that isn't given its proper due - and desalination plants aren't the cure-all that people assume.
Desalination plants: are expensive to build; are more energetically expensive than most alternatives, which means they are also more expensive to run (its tough to take salt out of water); inefficient - compared to alternatives, more water must be processed to create the same amount of potable water; environmental concerns, from intake (water intake may also 'suck in' krill, young fish, etc. which form the bottom of the food chain) and what happens with all of the concentrated 'sludge'? Dumping it back into the ocean would surely increase salinity in the area creating dead zones; time consuming to build - more water is needed now, not 10 years from now.
In L.A. specifically, there are treatment plants like Hyperion which perform secondary treatment on waste-water and then pumps that treated water 4.5 miles into the ocean. Does it make sense to treat waste-water, pump it into the ocean so it picks up solutes like salt, then desalinate it so that it's potable and then pump it back to shore? It makes more sense to upgrade facilities so they can perform tertiary treatment to make waste-water potable - it'd be cheaper than desalination, and much of the infrastructure is already there.
Also in L.A., storm runoff gets directed into a pipe system completely separate from the sewer system, so after a rainfall all of the water gets collected and essentially directed straight to the ocean via the stormdrain system without any treatment (and it also picks up massive amounts of debris and pollution along the way). It would also make sense to treat and store that kind of run-off instead of letting it go to waste (and pollute the beaches as well).
Israel is often given as a shining example of desalination, but they also recycle something over 80% of their water for irrigation. Essentially, they used all alternatives before adding desalination. L.A. imports over 80% of its water, and only recycles ~2% of it.
The parent comment only mentioned humans being diurnal, not other animals.
There's a number of strong evolutionary forces that explain nocturnality: niche differentiation, crypsis, a predation arms-race, water conservation, etc.
These days, many brick & mortar stores are a market inefficiency. It's simply cheaper to store & ship out of centralized warehouses (as it goes when you order online) than to ship merchandise to individual stores, which themselves have limited floor space and storage space (resulting in less variety of products) as well as a smaller potential customer-base (only those who live nearby). I don't see why manufacturers should be punished by selling at a lower price in order to sustain outdated business practices.
Stores that provide additional value, having unique goods that can't be found online or have cool atmosphere or such, will be fine.