Omnificer @ Omnificer @lemmy.world

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I had gay couples explained to me as a kid over twenty years ago and understood it no problem.

Geometry on the other hand, I still struggle with...

If Elon Musk is looking for more money pits to throw cash into, baseless law suits against Disney is certainly the way to go.

Lawful doesn't mean following the laws. A lawful person isn't obligated to follow the law in the Kingdom of Baby Eating.

I'm still stuck on him suggesting a submachine gun for police use, especially having also criticized submachine guns as promoting inaccuracy.

They reported 9.9 billion in profit for their third quarter last year, so I think 458 minutes of profit from that quarter.

I assumed 90 days in the quarter, or 129,600 minutes.

So dollar or minute wise, that comes out to a 00.35% penalty to that quarter.

Edit: Which isn't even close to the 36 minutes in that article, so I'd err on me being the wrong one.

Edit 2: I think I see the difference, I was looking at their profit, not their revenue.

If they can't give a reason that's internally consistent why should I believe them?

Even allowing for the unproven assertion that souls exist, at no point does that soul obligate giving up bodily autonomy.

You can't use organs from corpses without permission, you can't force a drunk driver to provide an organ to a kid they ran over, you can't force a parent to donate an organ to their own child. All of these things would save "souls" but is hardly part of pro-forced birth platforms.

And if fetuses have souls, that would surely make the Christian god the true murderer as 10 to 20% of all pregnancies end in miscarriages, but the Christian god is held to a lower moral standard than human beings by pro-forced birthers. And the governments that reject welfare programs are also held to lower moral standard for some reason, as well.

Sometimes I put stuff somewhere "safe". Which means I'll find it 2 years later.

Is there some kind of demographic breakdown that shows this to be the case?

Nomads from Cyberpunk 2020/2077 were not on my bingo card for this year.

My guess would be narration by Murderbot's actor for the inner monologue.

The systems communication might partially be handled like how most things handle text messages, with the word bubbles.

I wonder if they'll commit to hiding the actor's face most of the time.

I'm not against algae as a food source, but the similarity of this research to Soylent Green's cover source in the movie being plankton is hilariously on the nose.

I don't think I've ever considered how terrifying a mantis is to faeries (of small enough size). Sure, tons of stuff is terrifying at that size but mantises have a crazy success rate in killing prey.

Yea, the term is a "straight man" although this is slightly different in that the straight man is usually allowed to acknowledge the antics of the comedic characters, where-as Michael Caine treats the comedy as done straight.

I guess it would be a sub-category of straight man though, not a different thing to itself.

What's actually news worthy is that TSA managed to catch this. Their success rate is abysmal, so I'm sure this is a big confidence boost for them.

The guards that patrol the ice wall.

Entirety of NASA. Entirety of NOAA. Meteorologists. Cartographers. Everyone who works on Google Earth. Every engineer who works on satellites, rockets, and planes. Physicists.

However, I do think 10% is probably too high an estimate. While these are a lot of people in a lot of areas, they represent pretty small demographics each.

Hallucinations while half-asleep are a well known phenomenon, so it's very possible.

If you're trying to know for certain, that's harder. You'll have to consider a lot of things. Not all of them are likely, so how much digging you do is dependent on how concerned you are.

Do you live alone? I assume you do, or already asked the people you live with.

Are all your exterior doors and windows locked? Is anything missing or out of place? I think you'd have already noticed if you'd been robbed, but this is easy stuff to rule out.

Do you have functioning Carbon Monoxide detectors? Do you have sleep apnaea? CO can lead to memory loss, sleep apnaea can contribute to sleep paralysis.

Have you seen your door open while half asleep before? If this is recurring, you can do things like place hairs in the door that will fall if it opens.

Have you done a sleep study? This can help determine if your REM cycle is frequently disrupted and if you need something like a CPAP.

Mogget / Yrael is cute, but might still hurt you with his words.

Six books now, 'Terciel and Elinor' is out now, about Sabriel's parents meeting.

There may be a better way, but I use the option to extract the file to a new folder with the same name as the zip file.