chiliedogg @ chiliedogg @lemmy.world

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Yeah. My sister's spouse is NB and they have significant means. I encourage them to leave with my nephew because I want them all safe.

I'm a white, male, Christian gun-owner. I can blend in for now and don't have the same financial resources. I'm also single and childless, so I can also care for my parents who are blind to what's happening.

It's something I've noticed in general.

I had an amazing boss who was single and lived alone, and really love her staff. We had unecessarily long staff meetings every week. When I started I was annoyed by them until someone pointed out that the time we spent with everyone getting distracted and going off-topic and padding out the meeting while we ate our lunch around the conference room table was, for her, the weekly family meal.

I still don't like unnecessary meetings, but it gave me a different perspective on why some people like them.

They'd also be very difficult to place and remove.

Good luck finding a decent lawyer to argue against this plaintiff.

It's not like he's a vowel-hating Icelander.

He saw the Escobar phone and thought it was a good plan.

Yes. He is the fulfillment of the law in that sacrificing Chriat absolves all.

I work in municipal government in a different enclave for the super-rich (I don't get to live here, of course). We aren't 100% billionaire, but we do have several billionaires and 100% are multi-millionares.

We also don't have the ability to test our own sewage and instead contract with a neighboring municipality.

But we pay for it. Anyone connecting has to pay impact fees. So if a sewer treatment plant costs 50 million dollars and a compound uses up 0.1% of its overall capacity had to pay 50 grand up to hook into the system, and any service line expansions required to reach their house must be paid for by the developer.

Christians are supposed to follow the teachings of Christ. The old testament is just context. Jesus's only extended story on what earns salvation or damnation is about the treatment of the poor, imprisoned, the sick, and foreigners.

If the protests against Trump are canceled because his supporters assassinate Democrats, it will encourage more assassinations.

There's awesome AI out there too. AlphaFold completely revolutionized research on proteins, and the medical innovations it will lead to are astounding.

Determining the 3d structure of a protein took yearsuntil very recently. Folding at Home was a worldwide project linking millions of computers to work on it.

Alphafold does it in under a second, and has revealed the structure of 200 million proteins. It's one of the most significant medial achievements in history. Since it essentially dates back to 2022, we're still a few years from feeling the direct impact, but it will be massive.

He'd never get his screen time back in that case.

He will never, ever apologize for anything he does.

He may be able to tell you where to bury your cat.

They ain't "trying" shit. It's done.

When people support this or the trialess deportation of people who can't prove their citizenship on the spot, ask them to prove their citizenship to you right then and there.

Most people can't quickly produce proof of citizenship.

And good luck carrying something long or tall.

Lots of people need a truck often enough that it makes more sense to own one than to buy 2 cars, even if most of the time it's just a passenger car.

My parents have a plug-in hybrid and an F150 as their 2 cars because most of the time, the hybrid is great but frequently they need to move plywood or rent a trencher.

I drive an NV200 (mini cargo van) because I frequently need to haul scuba gear and tools, but rarely anything that won't fit in the cargo area of the van.

It's almost like different vehicles we've different roles.

Did you fucking register for a protest against a government that's going after protestors?

It's even worse for captions.

Captions and subtitles aren't even the same thing.

In fact, most DVD players don't even pass the code captioning through HDMI ports, so old captioned DVDs don't work anymore.

Good.

I loved how they handled the concept of a feminine hero in the sequel.

Ripley is the hero, but there's also Vasquez - the badass marine. Vasquez is what so many people tried to do to make women heroic in action films.

She's just an action hero that happens to be a woman. And she's great. But her character isn't classically "feminine."

Meanwhile Ripley is all woman. Her iconic badass moment ("Get away from her you bitch!") is the action climax of the film, and its also when she's being her most feminine. Her heroism didn't carry an asterisk saying she's a badass despite her sex.

She's not sexy, not vulnerable, not emulating a stereotypical man's role in combat. She's all-woman and all-badass.