CarbonIceDragon @ CarbonIceDragon @pawb.social

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Meanwhile, if you're looking for a somewhat older movie, in my experience you can find it about half the time by going to the "videos" search tab in a browser, using any advanced search options that may exist on that browser to limit it to longer videos, and searching "(movie name) Internet Archive".

I mean, wood already biodegrades quite readily, yet we are able to make some pretty long lasting things out of it anyway. Having a bacteria that can break down some variety of plastic doesn't really imply that all plastic things are going to rot away like old fruit.

Human psychology hasn't changed during that time, so the same kinds of tricks or weakness that can drive a population into that mode of thinking still work today, if the details around them are adapted for some modern culture. If anything, it might be slightly easier, given those trying to achieve it have historical examples of what is and isn't effective.

This is why I only ever get the creamy peanut butter and not the kind with peanut chunks in it.

I mean, the guy is a lawyer, I'm not sure I can think of a profession with a more "generic person in a formal but not fancy outfit" stereotype than that.

Anxiety and, due to a manufacturing bug or something, a second anxiety instead of something else.

Eh, in this specific case I don't think china's economic system has anything to do with it, I think it's more just making fun of Trump's ineptness at dealing with a rival power.

ornithopters arent exactly new

It's not really true that they have no ethics though, if it was, it'd be a simpler problem, because they'd presumably just care about reducing unpleasant consequences to themselves and as such a legal deterrent should be effective. The issue is that they have different ethics, which are misaligned with everyone else's and so result in conflict when they stubbornly refuse to do something that everyone else perceives as a no-brainer. It isn't like the church gets some material gain out of keeping confession secret.

To be fair, the issue isn't so much the person admitting things being protected by being part of the church, but if a third party not associated with law enforcement can be compelled to say to said law enforcement about the things said to them. Honestly I think I get the arguments on both sides of this one, it's not great to legally compel people to say things, especially when saying those things is directly in violation of their sense of ethics, and it's also not great to just not do anything when made aware of something like child abuse. I think that a law like this is unlikely to help much though: if the church caves, then it seems unlikely that people would be willing to admit to these things anymore anyway, at least to priests, and if they don't, these guys seem to believe that the consequences of following the law are worse than breaking it, and so it seems unlikely to do much more than occasionally send a priest to jail when it can be proven that they were told of something and didn't report it.

If any are, I bet crows are among them.

Shouldn't the raptors cancel though?

I'd rather not create thought crimes, or give the government a vague label to slap on any group of people they want to criminalize.

It depends, I think, on if that thing should make them uncomfortable. Making someone uncomfortable because you're acting threatening or something is a bit different than making someone uncomfortable because they have unreasonable standards.

I renamed my cat because of this guy. I don't really like to change animals names from what it was at the shelter in case they're used to it, and I have a cat named Mel, who I suspect was named for him because there was another nearby cat in the shelter he came from named "Gibson".

So I've renamed him after Mel Brooks.

eh, Id say theres some pretty ugly mammals out there, at least in my opinion. most primates for instance, mole rats, some but certainly not all bats...

To be fair, while paradox games like Stellaris or the crusader kings games you mentioned, certainly have a lot of replayability (I don't really care much for CK myself but have over 1000 hours on both Stellaris and EU4), they're not great examples for where cheaper games by smaller companies offer more than expensive ones from bigger ones. Partly because paradox is fairly sizable and well known these days, but mostly because those games are quite expensive, just split into numerous expansions that come out over time. One can opt out of getting them, sure, but they're where a lot of the different options that bring the replayability come from.

yet also kind of cute

It's been a long time since I read any of the bible, but wasn't there some story in it somewhere where some guy uses that and is immediately killed by god or something? (albiet I think the justification was some sort of tradition obligating him to have a child with a specific person, and his behavior was supposed to be exploiting that without fulfilling his end or something like that).