It wasn’t too long ago that a USB mouse would store the divers on the mouse.

Generational wealth and power, does not produce healthy minds.

The inbreeding was a side effect of an already broken system.

Turns out that anti-cracking tech is widely applicable, if a bit expensive.

What an odd choice… I know you’re referring to the USS Maine and invasion of Cuba, but that was not the start.

Sure, but it’s easier to just add a pinch of msg.

The “hard” option is to just get rid of the hen that turned cannibal. It’s going to be just one, unless you’re running an egg factory level operation. Give the hens more space and actual yard time, and most will stop pecking. The one that doesn’t goes in the soup pot.

I can understand why someone would ask who the good guys were in WW1.

It’s a question that shows a childlike understanding of war in general, but that’s how war is often sold. A team sport with body bags.

That said, WW1 is hard to pick a “good” side. It was a mess of a war, but no side was particularly vile when compared to the others…

But for a US president, there’s only one valid answer.

A US president can admit that Vietnam was not a shining moment is US history, but the world wars? No.

I’ve been out of the military for almost 20 years and I can still march to a cadence.

Active duty? They could march if they felt like it. They did not.

I feel the need to add some context here.

The patriarchal push to erase the pantheon started just before the Babylonian Exile under the reign of King Josiah. He ruled from 640 to 609 BCE.

His son Ellakim (or Jehoiakim) refused to pay tribute to the Neo-Babylonians which resulted in 60 years of slavery for some 7000 Judeans.

It was only in 539 BCE when the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell that they were allowed to go home.

The Judeans come home, but their temple has been sacked and most of their sacred texts burnt, so they rebuild and recreate.

This is when Noah and Moses were invented, a long with anything before Solomon, and even much of his life as well.

Mark Rober already did that.

Any country riddled with landmines. They’re the only ones that need it.

War crimes if you force enemy soldiers to do it. Technically forcing enemy soldiers to do anything at all is a war crime.

Not war crimes if it’s community service ordered by a judge due to conviction for crimes committed by the subject.

If you want to be sad, read up on the Residential Schools.

1948 was 50 years before the last of those hellholes closed.

And yes, Canada has semi-officially recognized it as a cultural genocide. With actual genocide recognition passed by the House of Commons in 2022.

(d) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713

(e) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56454609

There are far more, but those two are already enough to prove the point.

There are a few small scale chocolate companies that actively avoid child labor.

And then there’s Nestle on the opposite side of that spectrum. Not just child labor, but child slavery.

They talk a good game about eliminating child labor, but always seem to look the other way in their supply chain.

Chameleons don’t actually change color the way people think they do.

First off, the natural state of a chameleon is green, which blends in to the forest fairly well. Their color change is a mating tactic, and so favors bright and vibrant colors.

A chameleon changing colors isn’t hiding, they’re horny.

Or angry. Or scared, or well, any strong emotion. Basically a chameleon is a living mood ring.

Now, if you want true instant camouflage, that’s an octopus. They can not only change colors, but their own surface texture. In their case, they get the info about what to look like from their numerous suckers alone their legs.

There are 4 books, and yeah, they’re good. A bit darker than the show, but still comedy.

It starts with Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, which is Episodes one and two? Of the show… maybe some more thrown in… It actually starts with Lister on Earth and tells how he ended up on the Dwarf. He got drunk and doesn’t quite remember signing on.

Better than Life and Backwards were both single episodes… But of course expanded for book form.

I don’t remember reading The Last Human…

Anyway, they’re a bit hard to find, and certainly not in ebook format.

Fun fact, the full crew got together last year to film another three episode special. No idea when it will air

There are actually a few books based on the series, written by by the series show runners.

Lister does end up as a human puddle for a time. Which is why Holly brings Rimmer back as a hologram. The one person who can drive Lister insane enough to keep going.

The show sort of touches on this, but the books make it quite clear that Holly could have brought anyone back, and specifically chose Rimmer.

Maybe. We don’t actually know, because most of our information about the skeptics and stoics come from their detractors. Very little of their actual beliefs made it into writing that survived the years.

Is the leader alive or not? Alive is likely a cult, dead is usually religion.

The next question is how isolated from friends and family or society at large are the members. More isolated is more likely to be a cult.

Other than that, there’s not much difference.

The usual setup is a cult is formed and then the second or third leader opens things up a bit and transitions it into just another religion… But sometimes a cult can be born from a religion as a small group breaks off to follow a charismatic leader.