homo

Please don't say "no homo". It's really offensive.

How is saying 'no homo' even remotely appropriate?

Why is that ok with nazis and homo haters, but not for people who are merely skeptical about the current social norm wrt sex with minors? It's this same attitude that allows governments to block half the internet, it's to seek out the child pornographers!

We've had weapons and meat processing tools in our inventory since before we were homo sapiens a quarter of a million years ago. The oldest unambiguous weapons are throwing spears from the Palaeolithic 300,000 years ago in a cache full of thousands of animal bones.

We've decoded the genome of not just homo sapiens but many other species and we've only just begun to understand biology on that level. But we've been able to experiment with amazing things, lab-grown organ replacements, genetic therapy, etc.

Even if you're a "tight-fisted homo-economomicus shareholder" the end result is bad, because in the end his gaffe and the subsequent publicity meant that he reversed the cuts, so the company won't get to keep that money. I'm not against high pay for executives or that kind of thing, so I'm fine with him making oodles of money if he's doing a good job.

And, as hard as it is to capture all those nuances in an equation or a model, the biggest problem is that there are too many theorists, and common people, believing that the "real market" is the one that comes out of the theory - with its completely unrealistic homo economicus - and not the real markets, those which develop in the real world and are so much more complicated, non linear, and working on human reactions. A theory can be useful in dealing with complex situations.