That was a lot more warnings than I was expecting but I’ll check it out!

Source comic plz? 🙏

100% anecdotal, but I’d say the spam callers aren’t even waiting. I’ve had more in the last 2 months than the previous year.

Still internally screaming about the haircut I got 3 weeks ago, why do you ask 🙃

In all sincerity, please, the doomerism is unproductive. Especially in direct response to someone trying to help fund a public institution that’s losing funding. If you’re feeling despair from the horrors (which, understandable) it’s important to do what you can to get support from your friends and community. Trying to convince other people to not resist by saying it’s worthless is the worst thing to do right now.

This is probably area dependent, but it’s fairly common for food pantries to give you a bag of random food. They usually try to group things that make sense and that people use and want, but they can only give out what’s been donated and what you get is what you get. Letting people actually pick and choose what they want both reduces waste and gives a sense of normalcy.

Scientists also used to not think plastics crossed the blood-brain barrier until they started finding it in cadaver brains, you know? The list of things we understand about how plastics react to the body and its chemical processes is probably a much shorter list than the one of things we don’t understand about plastics.

It’s plastics in general, but yeah. It’s already in your brain, and you’re accumulating more every year.

Sort of? I rarely get them after the fact, and any time I’ve got one immediately before an earthquake started I’ve always been happy I got it. But the further you are from the epicenter the less accurate it seems to be; this was originally reported as a 6.0 on USGS before getting downgraded to a 5.2. If it had been a 6.0 it probably would have given us a decent rattle here, but since it was so far away and so much less powerful than they initially thought we just got a little shake that I never would have paid attention to without the alert.

Forcing the issue before everyone has become numb to the possibility is the correct move.

Yeah, I was gonna say whatever is going on with his spine might be hiding a few inches. You’d be amazed how many inches you can lose to curvature without looking like Quasimodo.

But I doubt he was ever 6’3”. That sounds like a number he picked years ago because someone he hates is 6’2”.

The Miami crowd was vocally on Mitchell’s side throughout the fight and chanted “U-S-A.” President Donald Trump and multiple members of his circle, including Elon Musk, were also in attendance.

A bunch of stupid Florida men and women, along with Elon Musk and Donald Trump, all having to watch the absolute shit get beat out of a Nazi is even better than the headline led me to believe. Sometimes there are happy endings.

The reason IP exists isn’t a whatabout, it kinda sounds like you just don’t want to hear about anyone other than giant corporations benefitting from it.

I spent so fucking long trying to understand this before I saw the community, lol

Wtf is this?? Too unrealistic, it would never happen in real life.

In what sense is a ladder getting pulled up if IP is respected? Anyone can make a new IP, there’s not a limited supply of imagination. You can’t make everyone like what you come up with or buy it, but why should that entitle you to being able to profit off someone else’s work?

The imbalance against giant corporations isn’t anything to sneeze at, but there are just as many (probably more) small time companies breaking copyright law and hoping nobody notices. For example, stealing artwork to print on cheap crap that you sell below what the creator is selling them for. If they’re in an area that recognizes that copyright then they’re going to lose every time, and they’re not going to have enough money to drag it out. After that happens artists can recover all the earnings that were made with their work. Without that the artist is just fucked.

So… an equal amount specifically requested the opposite of this? If you can’t say they didn’t vote for it, then by the same measure you can’t say they didn’t vote against it.

Doing as much as possible to obscure its general shape can only make it look better.

Since its 25th anniversary of its western release just passed and it’s on my mind, Princess Mononoke is a good one. It’s bloody but tasteful.