kryptonicus @ kryptonicus @lemmy.world

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Because the major export product of the United States is American culture. UFO/alien abduction/government cover-ups are kinda baked into American popular culture at this point. Just the idea that the government is simultaneously incompetent yet able to successfully hide far reaching evidence of alien visitation is as American as baseball and apple pie.

I've no doubt people are looking up at the night sky all over the world and seeing things that they think are possibly alien craft. I've also no doubt that there are stories and folklore about abductions in every country on earth. But American culture is insidious and infects just about everything. This forces every other event to be reframed in reference to the American UFO phenomenon.

As long as house republicans are holding multiple investigations into him and his business dealings and personal life, then this is politics.But I'm my opinion this plea deal was sabotaged by political interference for the purpose of keeping Hunter Biden in the news as long as possible. For political purposes.

I absolutely agree that this shouldn't involve politics, as the younger Biden has made no effort to insert himself in political matters. But at the same time, I don't think republicans should be able to do what they're doing without the press shining a light on it.

I don't think mrmanager missed your sarcasm. I think they were saying that they enjoyed the movie precisely because it took such an awkward and unpleasant premise and managed to make it funny.

I agree with you both. Damn it was dark, but holy crap was it funny.

That scene at Medieval Times when Carrey does that great rendition of the fight music from Star Trek. "Come hither, so that I may brain thee!"

I appreciate your "aww shucks, kids gonna be kids" worldview; however, the data is clear, we have dramatically reduced the rate at which young people smoke cigarettes by instituting rules and guidelines concerning advertising targeting adolescents. Further, we have clear data showing that level of education greatly effects the likelihood of an individual using tobacco.

So with all due respect, this is something we can easily tackle. We know for certain the adolescents respond readily to marketing, and we therefore can control tobacco adoption by reducing said marketing to their demographic. This isn't anywhere near as futile as you're making it out to be.

You're just spreading incorrect and out of date information here. Here's a quote from the union Railroad Department Director Al Russo with the IBEW:

“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers."

Source: https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

You keep saying that, but there is no prohibition against a felon running for president. There is literally no crime he could be convicted of that would preclude him from campaigning and being elected to the presidency. Obviously, it's doubtful he'd find a majority to vote for him, but it isn't legally disallowed.

This would be kinda fun to play with from a "game theory" standpoint too. Unscrupulous people could attempt to maximize their pizza consumption and minimize their capital investment by claiming to not be very hungry and being willing to eat the most common toppings.

Perhaps the app could have a function at the end to "rate" the participant diners? You could pass your phone around one more time and people could assign a "trustworthiness score" to one another.

That's kinda genius. I never would have thought to use my soldering iron for that. (Of course, I am big dumb dumb.) I'll grab a sacrificial tip and give this a shot.

Except their hackery has served to move the conservative football further down the field. I don't see what conservative position would be strengthened, or what liberal position would be undermined, by agreeing to hear this case.

Further, I don't see them taking on this case simply because there's "nothing there". This is a fairly stupid appeal in my opinion.

Considering the numerous comments I've read in the last few days saying something along the lines of, "What!? Cargo shorts are out of style? I'm never giving up my cargo pockets!"

I'm guessing that currently there isn't a lot of overlap between those two communities. But I'm hopeful that a MFA and a Frugal MFA take root here soon!

That's very cool. I feel like it would have been slightly more "welcoming" looking if you'd been able to keep a little more detail around the mouth, maybe even just a line intimating lips. But this was a very cool project.

I have fantasies of getting a copy of the file the next time my dentist does a 3D scan of my mouth for a night guard or something. He confirmed it will output an STL file. (But he wasn't willing to do "just for fun")

To be fair, that scene was just as much an attempt to parody the scene from "The Crying Game", as it was straight up transphobia. But regardless, it doesn't sit right today.

Do you combine Wellbutrin with a stimulant med? I've started discussing this with my doc because my ability to find Adderall has been inconsistent. I was hoping the Wellbutrin might even things out. But I'm uncomfortable starting and stopping Wellbutrin. I feel like with the way it works on brain chemistry, you're probably better off taking it consistently.

I was having that problem as well. I fixed mine by removing that account under the instance and then adding it back in.

There have been three accidents related to nuclear power generation, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukashima. There were a total of 33 deaths attributed to those three incidents (32 from Chernobyl and 1 from Fukashima.)

There are 58 deaths per terawatt-hour attributed to coal alone, mostly due to air pollution.

I'd say that nuclear power is very close to completely harmless in comparison. Certainly in contrast to its perception among the general public.