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Comment Re:Issue is more complicated (Score 1) 522  It's not a
binary between "coddling" (by which I assume you mean making
sure no one's feelings ever get hurt) and "being a relentless
fucking asshole." It's possible to strike a balance.  There are
points where the people you are coddling will still think you're
a fucking asshole, if that's what you mean. The happy medium
where you are neither coddling people nor having them consider
you a fucking asshole... that doesn't exist.  Comment
Re:incomplete sentence... (Score 3, Informative) 76  There is
some uncertainty about the extinction of North American
megafauna. Human migrations to North America tended to occur
during climate change, so which was the cause and with the
effect of human migration and of extinction is a fascinating
question.  The destruction of the Nazca native American
civilization due to overfarming and damming of rivers for
agricultural control, coupled with unexpected floods, is