hkmaly

But removing the word doesn't remove the problem. Those words became slurs/dehumanizing/harmful because being in targeted group was seen as inferior. Starting to call the group differently without solving THAT just means the new word became slur as well.
(And, while "insane" is understood incorrectly by lot of people, there are words which are DEFINED as meaning someone with inferior intellect. Or ethics. In medical condition sense, I mean.)
Well, politicians would like to blame anything. They don't want to admit that humans are, by nature, violent and society needs to work hard just to make the cases where this violence erupts uncommon. They used to blame AD&D and videogames (maybe they still do).
You don't remove violence by removing guns. You may reduce number of victims, yes, especially in case of SOME guns (politicians use the term "assault", I think, but I don't believe they got it right). Also, I find hard to defend that it's in some ways harder to get car than gun - in US, I mean, based on what I heard.
I am not any kind of biologists but I read that this idea doesn't exactly hold as absolute. There is evolution, there are fertile hybrids - some crows, for example - there are ring species, which prove that "can have offspring with" is not transitive relation, and, well, it doesn't work for single-celled organisms at all obviously. It's possible that the idea gets abandoned faster than biologists admitting that we share species with neanderthals.
... debated, or "we are not ready to accept the conclusion we arrived to"? (Rhetorical question ; probably both.)
There are lot of phrases which are common in usage but wrong. In this case, however, I suspect that the motivation for inventing this phrase was purely political and had no scientific base. At least the motivation was noble ... well, as noble as political motivation can be.
 
 

Well, for various reasons they've been reclassified and are now usually referred to as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. Does that help?
(By the way, the guy who originally dubbed them Homo neanderthalensis later changed his mind and denied that they were Homo anything.)
There's also Homo sapiens denisova, a shorter subspecies that apparently interbred a bit with Homo sapiens neanderthalensis in Siberia and then died out in that area, and later interbred with Homo sapiens sapiens in southeast Asia before dying out there... and with some other group of genus Homo  (but definitely not H.s.neanderthalensis or H.s.sapiens, and probably not H.heidelbergensis or H.erectus, and those are all the plausible candidates we know of) somewhere along the way.
Note: the taxonomy of all these groups is still being debated.

Oh. I see your point. He is actually absolutely nothing like a senate majority leader.

I remember a video game I played once where I was supposed to gather and eat everything on the game path while a number of non-player characters would chase, and attempt to eat, me
But if I ate the right thing I could, temporarily, eat the things that were chasing me
Honestly, it seemed like there was more than enough material to feed my character and the NPCs without any of us needing to eat each other
But they would not engage in negotiations
It took me a while to realize that what was actually being eaten were my quarters

"Too many people are figuring out that the height-weight chart, reducing fitness to just two numbers, is over-simplified. What shall we do?"
"Hey, how about if we divide one of those numbers by the other and call it some sort of index? That sounds all scientific and stuff."
"Brilliant! Let's see... we want big numbers to be bad, and not have to deal with fractions, so let's divide weight by height. Does 'Body Mass Index' work?"
"All agreed?... okay, that's settled. Next issue..."

Ya know what?
Maybe we could convince some artist to create a web-comic that features a cute girl who is secretly part squirrel.
Who knows?  This cute girl might be able to transform into an even cuter squirrel.
I think I might read that story for a while.

Oh, sure.

This is Elliot we talk about. He would say something like this only if it would backfire.

Nanase is the best martial artist among this group, but Justin is the biggest martial arts fan boy.
"SENSEI GREG!
IwantyoutomeetAshleyshe'sthegirlwhokickedaballatthegriffonatthemallshe'sadancerandsocccerplayerandshejustfoundoutshehasmagicpotentialsocanyouhelpherlearnabaletsocceranimemartialartplease!?"

I'm sure that despite loud protests, someone DID managed to put pajamas on cat ... hmmm ... yeah:

There is also popular kind of pajamas like this:

Neither is related to the phrase, but still, bee's knees are better example.

Unfortunately, we must permit them to return to the land eventually.  Therefore we can not allow them into a vehicle that requires them to stop talking before they can safely disembark.

... hmmm ... could I get away with pretending I really though it's written Faux News?

... yeah, brexit is technically still in progress but I will be in EU even afterwards and English is not my first language. Also, I get most of my english language knowledge in technical manuals and in webcomics, so it may not be exactly balanced
 

I'm ok with that, as long as my point is clear. What I might react disproportionally is when someone is opposing my point without hearing it out, or not understanding what I'm trying to say.
(And, probably, sometimes when I'm not understanding what they are saying ... )
I might be nitpicking sometimes ... well, often ... but I'm not going for controversy just for the controversy. Also, I'm never pretending to have opinion I don't actually have just because it gets "better" reaction that the opinion I actually have, or for any other reason. (Not counting cases where I preface sentence with something like "Playing devil advocate" ... I hope THOSE are clear.)
However, I don't think I can convince you about this. Either you would believe me or not.
Thank you.

I'm ok with that, as long as my point is clear. What I might react disproportionally is when someone is opposing my point without hearing it out, or not understanding what I'm trying to say.
(And, probably, sometimes when I'm not understanding what they are saying ... )
I might be nitpicking sometimes ... well, often ... but I'm not going for controversy just for the controversy. Also, I'm never pretending to have opinion I don't actually have just because it gets "better" reaction that the opinion I actually have, or for any other reason. (Not counting cases where I preface sentence with something like "Playing devil advocate" ... I hope THOSE are clear.)
However, I don't think I can convince you about this. Either you would believe me or not.
Thank you.

I want to be fair here -- and please note, I am not saying this wearing my moderator hat -- I don't think @hkmaly is deliberately trolling. English is not their first language and often problems can be traced to a communications tangle. Oral notation notwithstanding, I usually enjoy hkmaly's comments. My own bad temper at times gets the better of me and people tend to tolerate me in spite of that; I feel it behooves me to show some patience in turn when I am able to.

Sam in spaceship ... definitely risky situation. QED.
 

Sam in spaceship ... definitely risky situation. QED.
 

I though awareness of fashion is on X chromosome and girls having two of those are therefore very unlikely to not have it

And not just mathematics. I've read that Sanskrit has a technical subset dedicated to describing language and grammar, and there is no modern human language that this subset can't accurately define the grammar of. (In contrast, English can't accurately define the grammar of even English... although it's slightly better at defining the grammar of Latin.)
 

My instructors tended towards overkill. They were oceanographers and US Navy divers doing graduate work at the Naval War College (it’s right across the bay from the oceanography school.) To be fair it was in the pool and it did pay off for one student. She had her regulator fail at around 100 ft. And her buddy was one of the SEAL instructors. She swam over to him, signaled her loss of air, and used his secondary regulator to ascend with him.  She was so calm the instructor thought one of his friends or professors we were diving with had put her up to it.  
In order to even dive in open water we were required to drop our weight belt, mask and snorkel at the bottom of the high dive pool, then surface dive in full winter wet suit back down, put the weight belt back on, put the mask on and clear it of water, put the snorkel in and ascend slowly to clear the snorkel. That’s not part of any civilian scuba training, but I never felt ill prepared for any dive I ever did. 

I remember trying to enhance QEMM. Like, creating a resident program running in protected mode. It was lot of fun. It also didn't really do anything useful which wouldn't be possible with regular resident program ...
Then I found linux.

Back in the primordial days of the Internet, I read an interesting article about the different approaches to artillery between the Germans, the British, and the Americans. The goal is you want your first volley to come without warning. The British kind of forewent that at sent a test fire then adjusted. The Germans could shoot for effect on the first volley, but only if they accomplished a detailed survey of the target region first. The Americans precalculated every contingency, and assembled their calculations into a filing cabinet. So, in addition to the guns and ammo, the Americans had to lug along a filing cabinet of firing instructions, but it was very effective. They were, like the Germans, able to hit their target on the first volley, but without the need for the pre-survey. So not only did they have lots of artillery (the basic American WWII strategy was having lots of whatever, which was effective even when the whatever kinda sucked), they could hit $#!% with them.
Sadly, how the Russians approached the same chore was left out.

Cat or Tribble?