#max is talking

Like can you imagine. You've spent your entire life in a place where water is so precious that an entire industry has been built around pulling tiny bits of moisture from the very atmosphere, every single drop is precious and worth twice it's weight in gold.

And then when you leave, you go first to a space station with extremely strict climate control, and then to a FUCKING RAINFOREST

It would be like someone who has lived their entire life in Death Valley suddenly being picked up and set back down in the middle of the Amazon

However, in the Latin-based English alphabet, "chicken" comes first, because C is before E, so you'll find "chicken" before "egg" in the dictionary. But this is not applicable, of course, to all languages - for instance, "huevo" (Spanish for "egg") comes alphabetically before "pollo" (Spanish for "chicken").

And from a strictly single-individual, linear point of view, the egg comes first, because every living thing begins as some form of "fetus," and for chickens, that takes the form of an external egg that must be brooded over by a mother hen - who, of course, came from an egg, laid by her mother hen, who came from an egg, and so on. Thus, the egg is the starting point.

Except, of course, for the fact that the chicken egg cannot exist without the chicken, which was domesticated by ancient humans out of wild birds, so what we call a "chicken egg" today cannot exist without the larger foundation of "chicken" as defined by humans (who just think they know everything, including how to define nebulous concepts). So the chicken had to come first, as long as we're specifically talking about chicken eggs.

Except no one ever specifies that, do they? They imply it, sure, but that just leaves so much open to interpretation - and if we're going to be really granular, no one ever specifies what kind of chicken, either. You're just supposed to imagine a generic, perhaps slightly cartoonish, hen sitting on a nest of eggs. That's pretty imprecise wording for a question that challenges a precise answer.

And if we do get into the specific breeds of chicken, then we look at where those lines started, and it's with other chickens, who were selectively bred to produce eggs that would contain chicks with desired traits.

Don't even get me started on tracing chickens back to dinosaurs, because then we end up back at the first point, which is that the first eggs evolved before bones did, much less chickens, and then we loop back to the fourth point, about defining what a "chicken" is in order to define what a "chicken egg" is.

I also noted during the closing remarks that Vance almost slipped and referred to Harris as just "Kamala" but quickly corrected himself to "Kamala Harris"

The reason why this is noteworthy at all is because of an unconscious respectability bias that we all have - it might have different forms across different cultures and languages, but in this context (American English), people generally expect that referring to someone as [Title] [Surname] is a way of showing that person respect. Calling someone by their first name implies 1) friendship/familiarity (probably what Vance was hoping people would read it as), or 2) lack of respect/indication that you view that person as beneath you (quite possibly what Vance really meant by it, especially considering that Walz is older than Vance, and the Republicans are all about "family values," including respect for your elders).

I've seen a handful of posts about referring to women politicians by their first name being disrespectful (unless it's how they're branding themselves, such as Hilary Clinton's 2016 campaign being under just "Hilary"), and I personally think it's a very, very tiny concession that the Trump/Vance team is making in referring to Harris by her full name, instead of "Vice President Harris" or just "Harris" - Vance, to my recollection, didn't once refer to Harris with her title throughout the debate (in fact, he gave her the rather stupid title of "border czar" which doesn't mean anything and isn't remotely accurate, as the border situation is overseen by the Dept. of Homeland Security, not the VP).