Seriously, one has been sighted just an hour from where I live
what’s ur sine?
I hate those kind of puns but this one is creative enough to get a pass for now... 🐻
Organic? Yes. Living? Nope...
They are made from wood, metal or stone frames with "root-like cords infused with alchemy" as muscles and covered in armored plates. They don't sleep, don't eat, don't drink, don't breath and are immune to disease.
Their "living quality" is basically just being sentient and not the dumb mindless constructs formerly build.
The part about getting healed normally is mostly balancing... After all healing in D&D terms is mostly magical so why wouldn't it apply to a magically created sentient creature? It's not like magic needs (micro-)biology concepts to work. Sentience being the deciding factor between an object and a creature from a view point of magical theory works, too.
(Funnily enough that's in fact even consistent with rest of D&D magic where a dead body -at least strictly speaking- stops being a creature and becomes an object the moment the concience/soul/whatever leaves...)
Basic descriptions aren't necessary but helping in a lot of cases. And in some it's completely the same ("I want to roll an insight check" vs. "Do I believe his story?" - there's simply no describeable process making a difference).
Also players are different... I won't punish a guy playing a high int, high charisma character for not coming up with a logical or persuasive argument (and again "I want to talk to him to change his mind" vs. "I want to roll for persuasion" is all the same here), just as I don't punish a nerd playing a barbarian for not actually being able to lift a person one-armed.
But then I know my players and assume new additions are acting in good faith to their best ability and not just roll-playing because they want to have more time to focus on Candy Crush.
Define: People in the Donbas
Are we talking about Ukrainians living there or about Russian military in plain clothing being supplied by military trucks that accidently lose then re-find their plates with every border crossing with military good out of Russian stocks? 🤡
Only that it's not the governments falling to facism, but the voters. Manipulated by propaganda on a unheard-before level... via the web
It's not the rights getting somehow magically lost. It's a push by lobbyists wanting to have more control over their workers/clients/customers/whatever amd who pay millions on pushing false narratives and propaganda... via the web
Late-stage capitalism: Same, same...
But the web getting exploited to spread narratives and manipulating people on a scale never before possible is of course totally unrelated to the situation right now. 🤡
Can you maybe add some actual legal details here? Because as far as I know cannabis is indeed illegal on the federal level in the US, too. Which is the whole point they try to change here.
Just like in a lot of US states, several EU countries have legalized it to the point where it's legal or at least decriminalized on the consumer level. But that doesn't do shit if production and sale aren't legal on a bigger level as it either breeds a criminal network in the background doing the logistics or just scattered local and private production often also cut of from the financial system completely as on that federal level cannabis is still illegal.
So the actual point here is legalization on der German federal level and also comply again with the bigger EU legal frameworks. To get rid of the black market and to get cannabis production and sale regularly taxed and controlled.
The difficulty is not some imaginary conservativism in Europe or Germany or misconceptions about the dangers of cannabis. It's simply not doable without bending and working around a lot of existing laws and regulations including even the UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
For the same reason you might have some states where cannabis is legal for a decade and more that half of all states having it legalized in the meantime by now. But you are also still far away from actual legalization in your whole country and on the federal level as the US has also bound themselves to decades old UN and other agreements that categorically prohibit legalization.
That's also the whole reason it took that new Germqan government full two years for the first (and very restricted) draft of a law when what they wanted was full legalization. Not only are single conservative German states fighting tooth and nail against a German-wide legalization, but their plans were also constantly shut down by the EU as incompatible with EU law. And other countries in the EU aren't helpful either. Some went for their own and also very flawed way of just decriminalization and the ones open to legalization just watched for years now hoping Germany will do the work and solve the issue with the EU.
Fine... Why should I ever be able to just enjoy shallow entertainment as such? Guess I have to rewatch the movie at least another time to look for details I might have missed because I'm not properly sensitized like a good morally uncorrupted Algerian.
No, that's not some "not quite perfect but definitely an improvement"-idea. It's bullshit moving people out of sight. And no that is not "my addition" but a simply fact, one very prominently pointed out in the very first sentence of this report ("Nestled within a warehouse...").
That's a problem, a "but we did something to help"-diversion at best, but no solution.
Because out "of sight, out of mind" does never actually solve anything. It literally pushes LGBTQ out of sight so the homophobics hopefully find another topic to be enraged about... for some limited time only.
That's not a solution. I thought we all had agreed at this point that solving the issue is about open and fair representation as a completely normal part of, as well as clear support in society...
(Just like being personally offended when someone doesn't perfectly agree with you doesn't solve anything. Or how did you interpret my criticism about cheering for a project that creates out-of-sight safe zones as anything other but critcism about the initiators of the project and the author of that report? Is there something on your mind that I should have read - between your ... one line of statement? Yes, you can read that part as personal criticism or just dismiss it as a quip because I really have no clue where you found that hostility...)
"The movie promoted homosexuality and did not comply with Algeria's religious and cultural beliefs"
Did I see the wrong movie again when that pink fever dream about living -and quite certainly asexual- plastic puppets somehow promotes homosexuality?
As these things were invented and trademarked in Australia and nearly half of them are bought by non-muslims for exact that reason, it is indeed great marketing.
And you are just spouting none-sense...
Europeans have every right to fight a totalitarian ideology that is actively trying to destroy their chore values.
Which I will do by blocking you for that piece of right-wing totalitarian idiological propaganda bullshit...
Would be even better when people could raise their voices against sexist, queerphobic, and xenophobic views in public instead of cheering for projects creating safe zones out of sight...
Or those "religious" people could remember their own fing religion for once instead of hallucinating something they like more at the moment.
For example I'm pretty sure there's something in the bible about those evil rainbows...Oh, yeah:
"And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth."
I'm also pretty sure remembering my history lessons muslims up to 150 years ago accepted homosexuality as something completely natural and there's a lot of documented confusion why European christians at that time disagreed so heavily.
Seriousy... I'm no fan of religion. But it isn't even religion to be blamed here but morons using religion as a pretense even if they have to invent and add new things to their religions to do so.
Who is even wearing 6 different mono-colored watches at the same time just to make a point?
For Russia, or in this case their puppet, to invade a NATO country? Yes, it actually would be the first time.
Some parts of it are... there is a certain amount of either nuclear base load or storage infrastructure needed.
But more than 50% renewables are easily doable without much strain on modern grids (modern models for nuclear usually plan with 30-35% minimal base load needed...).
Also another argument for specific fossil fuels -domestic availability and thus more independence- is also a pro argument for renewables.
So no matter where you stand, if you are not at least using (or planning to use in near future) 50% cheap renewables in your electricity mix (or see narratives about expensive renewables even) then you know that the decision is not taken for economic reasons but because decision makers are getting money to stick with more fossil fuels than necessary.
Renewables are an economical no-brainer right now. Actual complexity of balancing out their fluctuating production with base load or storage comes much later (although in the case of nuclear the build times are often long enough that you should start soon). And still there are so many countries so far away from the absolute no-brainer amount of renewables.
Right now, the dirty secret is that renewables are integrated into our energy supply by having a crap-tonne of gas capacity (and importing nuclear energy from France) standing ready on poor renewable days.
You’d have to strip mine the entire planet’s worth of supply lithium and other required metals to be able to do it
Neither of these are questions. These are statements. False ones repeated again and again by the same fossil fuel and nuclear lobbyists lying to you.
Oh, sorry. No. They don't lie. They pay millions for desinformation so people like you tell the lie while seriously thinking it's true. That might actually be worse even but ymmv...
That's not the point. He gives a fuck if it's actually possible. All his demented voters learn from this statement is that talking about excluding people with disabilities can again be said publically in Germany.
The good thing is: They might be big but they are mainly a risk for bees. But not much is actually as obnoxious (or dangerous for humans) as the aggressive assholes that are our domestic common wasps.