And by precise you mean both "add in the heat resistance gene" and also "add in a pesticide gene that kills bazillions of insects, but that's someone else's problem"

It's that second thing that's the problem. GMOs let the big agri businesses grab lots of profits while dumping all of the potential problems onto the common people.

Here's my alternative point of view: GMO adds in radically different genes into a plant (famously, making goldfish glow-in-the-dark). This adds very substantially to the risks of GMOs compared to "mere" selective breeding

Well, reading your first sentence certainly gives the impression that you're not blaming the British:

> The Irish famines origins are from Catholicism, Irish laws of inheritance and a limited gene pool of potatoes

If your statement is true, we can confidently say that in Europe there are more famines in catholic countries than in protestant ones. Looking at the data, there are essentially no famous famines in spain, italy, or france -- which rather limits the value of assigning blame to being catholic.

Genetically modified? The ancient Incas were able to use the polymerase chain reaction? They had the ability to use x-ray crystallography like Rosalind Franklin did to discover the double-helix nature of DNA centuries?

Genetically modified doesn't just mean working on a lineage to make it more of what we want. "Genetically modified" means that we're combining otherwise un-combinable genes together.

Indeed, I managed to not replace the office coffee carafe once, and hot coffee was spilled everywhere. 4/10, don't plan on doing that again.

Doctors decide (every year?) what insurance they will accept. I remember one particular year where essentially every single doctor in my area that used to take my insurance decided that the reimbursement rates (or the hassle factor) were too much and stopped taking the insurance.

My list of potential doctors went from "dozens" to "one" (and then that one doctor retired a few months later)

Yes, I know how it's done! Every check has written on it the bank (routing number) and the bank's account number. The numbers are written in magnetic ink and read with a magnetic check reader.

However, not all banks use the fancy magnetic equipment. In the very old days, there would literally be bank courriers with bags of checks who would meet at a "clearing house" to swap all their checks around. Big banks with lots of volume really wanted to automate the process; small banks were happier with just a manual process.

To make a "perpetually routed" check, print a routing number (bank number) using magnetic ink that points to a small, manually-sorting bank. Then cover that over with a non-magnetic ink routing number of a big bank.

Deposit the check into the big bank, and they will read the magnetic routing number and send it to the small bank. At the small bank, they will see that the check isn't really for them, and they will send it back to the big bank. And then the big bank read the magnetic routing number, and sends it back to the small bank...

Nowadays it seems like most banks work with the check optically, so the magnetic routing number isn't really needed any more.

One way to look at it: humans pretty much always form a social group. All over the world, people gather together for the common good: for mutual defense, to support people with specialized skills (you wouldn't want to waste a cook's time with farming, and vice-versa).

Having lgbtq+ people in your family is a create way to have additional adults (who can do lots of things) without the burden of additional children. Hence, any group that welcomes their lgbtq+ family will be a stronger group.