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  1. AHC/WI: Cattail as a crop

    The fluff is basically cotton and it could be spun if it was twice as long

  2. Would Ireland still be in the UK today if Britain had spared the 1916 Easter Uprising leaders?

    Do unjust trials mean so little to you that you can only imagine people getting upset about them if they already support the defendant?

  3. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Historical range of the use of war elephants throughout history

  4. WI: Dogs and Cats were never Domesticated?

    I am familiar with basic ecology. What you have quoted is the caveats explaining why sometimes predators have less effect than you would expect from their raw kill numbers. Not an isolated statement about how predation cannot be a limiting factor. Also have you noticed that the second half of...

  5. WI: Dogs and Cats were never Domesticated?

    Yes you already asserted this. I am asking for evidence. One of the reasons that I doubt this is that the population levels of many species of primary consumers is substantially higher in the absence of predators than in the presence. Secondly we have had no difficulty driving many species of...

  6. WI: Dogs and Cats were never Domesticated?

    The second part does not follow from the first.

  7. WI: Dogs and Cats were never Domesticated?

    Cats can be replaced with snakes and ferrets and foxes

  8. Flag Thread V

    The flag of Genderqueer Cascadia.

  9. WI: Britain is settled by the Franks instead of the Anglo-Saxons

    why didn't Low Franconian undergo the second consonantal sound shift that unites the high german dialects?

  10. Could the Mississippi-Missouri river system have become a cradle of civilization?

    Why not domesticate Buffalo?

  11. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    a far simpler united states

  12. Could an industrial revolution emerge in a pre-iron society?

    You could certainly get the textile half of the industrial revolution without iron.

  13. Ranked-choice voting is in the Constitution from the start

    yes and in in first past the post any parties past two waste votes, which is why there are only two parties

  14. Ranked-choice voting is in the Constitution from the start

    That naturally means that any party much larger than the minimum party size is a waste of potential

  15. Ranked-choice voting is in the Constitution from the start

    Ranked choice leads to single party dominance, because the more candidates your party has, the lower you can push the rival parties' candidates.

  16. Early Upper Paleolithic Domestication of Equids / Camelids / Suidae, Neolithic on Schedule

    from what I understand, domestication of edible animals develops out of restricting your hunting to a level that maintains a stable population. Just like agriculture this requires an environment stable enough that things don't reshuffle every hundred years. A small scavenging pig could self...

  17. Byzantium as THE Roman Empire

    I have read your posts, you constantly demand to be treated as an authority while only providing unconvincing points. If you want to convince people you'll have to actually do the work of convincing them instead of just telling them that you understand more than they do.

  18. what would it take for the technology and science to progress really slowly from the 1500s

    no fossil fuels

  19. WI the Great Polynesian Ocean Journey

    They probably did. They brought coconuts to the pacific coast of South America and took home sweet potatoes. The evidence for contact with North America is less convincing but it still probably happened.

  20. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Egypt and Morocco look fine
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