You’re jumping over points here a lot… Yes children who were raised to be a piece of shit will probably raise their children to be a piece of shit, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll be the ruling family.

There’s examples of hereditary rule where the ruler is a great and largely fair leader, such as Pedro II and Elizabeth I, as well as the opposite, such as Kim Jong Un and Ferdinand VII, as well as great and tyrannical elected leaders, and great and tyrannical leaders who came to power militarily.

I don’t think it’s a lack of creativity - our brains try to turn all sorts into faces and monsters and whatever else as it’s evolutionary beneficial to turn that shadow into a lion because there’s a small chance it could be, or that rock into a face because it could be a friend or foe, even down to looking at a mouse gripping something while eating and thinking “it’s like us”… When you consider that, of course aliens are going to look somewhat familiar as we’ve learnt to identify human traits better than nonhuman traits

There’s different frequencies for different clothing items though:

• Socks, underwear, sports kit: Daily
• Dress shirts: Every two days
• T-shirts: Every 3 days
• Shorts, jeans, chinos, gloves: Weekly to fortnightly or when they get dirty
• Trainers, beanie hats: Every few months
• Leather shoes, caps, formal hats:

Different parts of the body produce different levels of sweat, different materials pick it up at different rates. If you’re washing all your clothes at the same frequency you’re either a clean freak who’s apparently fine with wearing socks that very clearly need washing after a day’s use but not with wearing other things which are pretty much clean, or you’re just wearing out your clothes way faster than you need to

top causes, not factors

if your R&D costs make your business unprofitable, something’s going to come along and topple it, same as how “smoking” isn’t a cause of death but lung cancer is a very major cause of death

“Abolish the fire in my house” ≠ “Put out that one fire in my house”

There’s one of us who struggles with comprehension and it’s not me

Correction:

“Abolish fire in my house”

“Are you sure? We can just put out the fire in the living room and you’ll still need a working boiler, cooker and oven given it’s the height of winter?”

“No; abolish fire in my house. I’ll still be able to heat my house and cook my food.”

“Ok… If you say so”

“Why is my house cold? Why is my food raw?”