Also… The disproportionate police response when it’s wealthy and/or connected people compared to poor everyman Joe and/or a minority is as frustrating as it is sad.

Yeah, similar here.

In my head those songs are “cringe” or I imagine they won’t be great bend listening again…

Then I ring one up and am immediately head banging like “yo, is this even better than when I first listened?”

telling people your technology will replace their jobs, devour their electricity, and possibly end civilization isn’t the winning sales pitch billionaires imagined.

“but what you guys aren’t getting is the fact that it’ll make me a lot more money.”

I see your nuclear war and raise you wet socks

Maybe the robot should be charged for blocking her way

And also, JK Rowling has zero consistency and her logic is often current event specific.

Plenty of “established rules” are bent or changed for convenience in the moment or for a specific plot point

But think about poor old $$$

I recall reading that in some ways air quality was better when smoking in airplanes was legal because they had to cycle air through the outside through ventilation systems.

Now they don’t so the air is more stagnant and circulates germs etc.

I have no idea if that’s actually the case, or if so, if that’s actually better. But it was a point I hadn’t considered.

In hindsight, it feels like the sort of “study” that a tobacco company would put out. Like a petrol company funding one that says “climate change is good actually!”

Lmao, I know he’s trying to look tough/cool, but his facial expression is so cheesy/dumb. He literally looks like a 7 or 8 year old trying to look cool/tough

First picture gang checking in. Especially as a 2 metre tall person, I don’t fit anywhere, gotta get creative

Unfortunately it’s not just a US or a “in Okinawa” problem. It’s a problem as old as civilisations have had militaries and sent them to other countries.

I’m not saying there’s no point in trying to fix it but… It’s pervasive in time and space.

Good old Poes law.

That person’s exact phrasing was how the right responded to any attempt to come up with a solution to a recent mass gun violence episode

I understand your point but that feels a bit like a zero sum game.

If people like zone out action games, and those games are made and sell reasonably well, and people enjoy them… Isn’t that fine?

Yeah maybe it’s shit quality for the amount of money/talent behind it and it could have been better etc… But that feels a bit like people who play every cod version ever complaining about indie games having “bad graphics” or being too hard etc. They’re different games for different audiences.

Yeah fair point.

There’s probably studies/data on some of this, but for a thinly veiled argument that people use in bad faith I wasn’t going to go that in depth.

The one “truth” is that it “reduces the risk of cancer”… Because technically chopping anything off reduces the risk of cancer, because that thing can no longer get it.

However foreskin cancer is not exactly a high cause for concern, and by this logic cutting off your ears and nose would be more logical.

It is very hard, without writing a mini essay, to convey all the relavent context, tone and meaning via a text based comment.

Often what people write will end up being interpreted differently by people reading it and different to your intentions.

Also the, for lack of a better term, “dog pile” effect really matters. If the first few people down vote you, that changes how successive people will interpret your message. “Maybe it seems harmless but it’s -3, so I might have missed some context and it’s more nefarious than I realised” etc.

The older stickers look brand new. Even if that car had been around then, they’d be super faded

The nazi salute is the same time they’re talking about though…

And the stock is starting to tank, because the earnings are shit, but they’ve been way below it’s valuation for ages

Wait you finished?

On one hand… I get it. On the other hand, massive protests against touring South African sides during apartheid helped bolster public understanding and support for bringing it down.

Like, should Russia and Israel be allowed to play?