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  • What could a five year old kid who just wanted to play video games with an older dude (the 27 year old) do that would lead to being choked and beaten with a golf club? If the story the 27 year old told was true, the 15 year old is such a piece of shit. What a horror for the poor mother.

  • Eh, just don't go and make an organization dedicated to certifying olive oil... that's actually effective. There have been several big stories about much of the oil you find in a store being either rancid or at best a mixture of olive oil and something else.

  • But taxes aren't constrained...so make an amendment to tax representatives from northern Georgia at 90% of their pay. Or something. You can't target individual people, per the constitution, but that should be 'general' enough to get around it, aye?

  • I thought it was less about racial stereotypes, and more about this big recent push across multiple fields to not have people's names attached to things. Right now (or recently) it's about oviducts v Fallopian tubes or the bulbourethral gland v Cowperis gland in biology, which I'm familiar with. I think there was a post and comment thread about birds specifically in the last few days on Lemmy; same thing with people's names being removed.

  • No, it was during the mid 2000 era. I remember it as being one of the few part time jobs that would offer health benefits, and most of my friends who worked there were head over heels about it. I think they also had other perks that some employees enjoyed, like free bags of coffee.

  • You can currently brew your own alcohol, so I highly doubt that marijuana wouldn't see a similar system. I think where I am the limit is 50 gallons a year of wine, not sure on beer. If marijuana has similar rules, you could grow enough for yourself and your neighborhood street's personal use for a year.

  • Land. Sexual partners. Values/morality. Those are the big two (and a half) that I could see.

    Until VR is perfected (to the degree touch/taste/smell/sight/auditory/proprioception/etc. all match exactly what reality would deliver), things like views (wouldn't you want your house to be on the shore of Malibu?), proximity to activities (if everyone suddenly found themselves wanting to be a surfer, the beaches will become pretty crowded), proximity to others (whether that's immense crowding of folks into massive cities, or the loners who would want space and again, views [like of forested hills]) and other similar concepts would still motivate people to be in conflict. There would definitely still be winners/losers in all of those areas.

    I'd say the sexual partners idea speaks for itself. Even as we appear to be at the zenith of sexual freedom in the west, there are lots of problems (such as incels/the concept of incels) cropping up that cause conflict. Probably a small chance of giant, intercontinental conflict, but who knows.

    And we already see the imposition of values or morality by laws. I very seriously doubt that would diminish. Perhaps unlimited energy and whatever-matter-on-demand-you-want would allow people to move to where others' thoughts align with theirs, but if you could get away from local imposition of opposing values, it would be setting the stage for regions then being in conflict. Would a faction that believed homosexuality was the source of remaining human suffering allow their neighbor to engage in free love? I think we have our answer already in the form of genocides that have occurred in the world; ones where divisions were drawn based on nearly arbitrary lines. Throw pseudo-religious ideas/values into that mix, and you have yourself a war.

  • Hmm, I'd say overall the avatar (blue people) movie wasn't shit. It wasn't breaking any new ground in story or such, but the visuals complemented the actors and didn't break immersion in comedic, unintentional ways. So... mostly just by comparison to the shitty avatar (blue tattoos) movie.

    I've only finished the first game. I keep getting stalled around mid-game in the second. Now, those games had some humor that didn't break immersion.