Woah buddy, you're just talking crazy now.
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No, social behavior has always been a party of biology. Even after you reproduce how you care for your young and your extended family has a huge impact on the species. Herd animals or anything that flocks can't function solo. If all the adults just left after they reproduced the species wouldn't survive. Reproduction is key for the individual, but it's never that simple. The version you're told in school is always a highly simplified version of the truth.
Elite usually means middle class and upper middle class in Moscow. That's the bulk of the politically influential people in Russia. Not the rich oligarchs but the important mass that is what Putin is trying to not piss off with a mass draft/mobilization of ethnic Russians who live in Moscow or st Petersburg.
Profit. Aws is profitable. Products make most of their revenue, it's just that selling junk for cheap is low margin so it's low profit. But their costs mostly stay the same whether they sell junk or not, so it does matter whether they sell a lot or not.
Fuck off with this shit
Changing the main character perspective half way is actually the weirdest part
The lithium should burn to lithium oxide. So it should still be recycled to recover most or almost all of it.
No, that doesn't always work. They still block that sometimes.
America isn't enthusiastically going for the racist guy. Right now no one is happy and the people will continue to vote out the incumbent. Any incumbent would have lost this election.
I dunno, licking muppet Salma feet would be funnier.