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Well that doesn't make any sense! Why would she do that if all abortions are caused by women getting knocked up and then randomly deciding they don't actually want their baby, like the anti-choice narrative claims?

It's almost as if abortions are actually done for good reasons and the anti-choice people are hateful fucking liars. Weird.

Personally, I recommend quitting Windows cold-turkey and not dual-booting at all. If a game genuinely doesn't work without dual-booting, you don't need it. No game is so important that it's worth compromising your security, privacy, and property rights over.

Well, now you've piqued my curiosity. Got a link?

The Wikipedia article I'm reading right now says that the Indian plate split from Gondwana 100 MY ago (33 MY before the Chicxulub impact), so that's not the connection. Further down the page, it says that the plate movement might have sped up as it passed over the mantle plume from the impact that created the Deccan Traps (my interpretation, BTW; the science isn't actually as settled as I'm making it out to be), but it seems to me that that wouldn't change the "result" of the plate colliding with Asia and creating the Indian Subcontinent, only the timing of the collision.

Fun fact: Smartwater bottles are popular with ultralight backpackers because they're cheap, lightweight, and durable enough to survive an entire Appalachian Trail thru-hike.

In other words, it's fucking ridiculous that they're sold as single-use plastics.

Considering that we're in the midst of the Anthropocene mass extinction event already, I'd say it would be a certainty. The only question would be how bad it would get. Given how much larger that crater would be than Chicxulub, I'm guessing it would exceed the "Great Dying" (Permian-Triassic extinction event) to take the crown.

Edit: The Wilkes Land Crater in Antarctica, which may be associated with the Great Dying, was "only" a little over 2.5 times larger in diameter than Chicxulub and thus still way smaller than the crater depicted. That said, I guess a nuclear crater wouldn't be associated with a flood basalt "exit wound" at the antipode the way an impact crater might be, so maybe it wouldn't be comparable.

See my last paragraph here. TL;DR: it might indeed do that, but only in the vacuous truth sense that no human societies would be left to make war.

Still looks better in comparison! 🙃

No, because (a) that's way, way bigger than any single bomb would make (the largest nuclear crater ever made was "only" about 390m across), and (b) actual nuclear weapon attacks would be detonated as air-bursts and therefore wouldn't make craters at all to begin with.

The afore-mentioned crater was the result of an underground test, BTW. Also, it was designed to make a big crater, being part of Project Plowshare. The largest bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba, left no crater because it was an air-burst at 4,000m altitude.

Also, a crater that big would be an extinction-level event. For comparison, Chicxulub crater, from the impact that ended the dinosaurs, is "only" about as wide as "Mossad Island" in this image.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging!

By all means, feel free to figure out about filling it back in second, but that's doomed to failure if you skip step 1.

Yeah, this would be a stupid plan based on a defective understanding of how LLMs work even before taking the blatant ulterior motives into account.

Musk's fascist ass.

Your question is like asking how to convert a cake into flour, sugar, milk, butter and (unbroken!) eggs.

Dem establishment knows exactly what it's doing, because alienating people like you is exactly their goal.

I think most Dems try to appeal to actual conservative values. It’s non-intrusive, light on protections, nothing that might make the average voter uncomfortable (no reparations, no medicaid for all, no major police reform etc).

Well, yeah. That's what liberalism is, and always has been.

With donors.

Especially AIPAC.

"This episode was badly written!"

The Princess Bride, obviously!

I was going to mention that this was one of the reasons I like going to the last remaining drive-in theater in my area, since it doesn't do that. Then I realized that it's been quite a while since I've seen a movie there, and decided to check what's playing. 3 of the 4 "now playing" movies and 13 out of 15 "coming soon" movies are sequels or reboots. And now I'm mildly infuriated, too.

That's not the point. The point is that Rep. Thomas Massie is personally in a position to do something about it himself, and needs to shut the fuck up and put his money where his mouth is. As a member of the House of Representatives, there is absolutely nothing stopping him from unilaterally filing articles of impeachment. He doesn't need consensus, he doesn't need the support of party leadership, he doesn't need anybody's permission. He can just do it. Right now.

So will he actually do it, or is he just yet another Trump-ass-licking fascist shitstain with zero credibility?

To be fair, the attitude at the time was...

...so they didn't really know any better.