I have a collection of toques for winter and keep another collection of ballcaps from various places, mostly museums and zoos. The one I got for visiting the Smithsonian was a Washington D.C. one, though, and it doesn’t cover my head well.

It’s not really about fault at this point, it’s about solving the issue and bringing the ecosystem back into equilibrium. Like any pest, it’s natural to put ire towards the group of organisms actively causing something to deteriorate, and thus sympathy goes away. This makes eliminating them much much easier for locals.

Or until you’re explained just how much damage they’re doing to forest ecosystems by overbreeding and destroying native plant life. They’re becoming a locust-level issue.

He does… business. It’s on his card. He’s the VP of a Mergers and Aquisitions business. So you know he’s businessing. /j

More seriously, for those who didn’t see it or don’t wanna - all we really know is on his card. He works at Pierce and Pierce which deals with mergers and acqusitions. How specifically is unclear - possibly in writing up the legal documents, possibly in just facilitating the meetings.

The real funny part of the cards, though, is that everyone comparing cards is the VP of the company. What that job entails is vague, and the fact that there’s at least 4 people who are all the vice president ambiguates it even further.

Pepe Silvia

The new hot cure to hantavirus: bloodletting! Balance your humors and align your chakras with this one simple trick!

The world was different when you had to walk the streets and have random encounters with others.

Great quote from Paul Atraides.

That is surprising and very contrary to the narrative I’ve been hearing. I’d heard that our steel production had dropped to trivial values after the Pittsburgh forges had gone under.

How’s that narrative go when looking at raw material processing? My understanding is that a decent amount of products we manufacture nowadays have their parts manufactured elsewhere in the world and then are just assembled in the US. That would certainly shift the narrative a bit I think.

This is a genuine question. I know we probably still make our own petroleum products, we haven’t manufactured steel since the 1990s, with the collapse starting in the 80s, but everything else is an informational gap for me.

Lamar

You’re aware no child left behind was literally that, and it’s a big reason for schools declining as they are right now, right? Because the standards it set were poorly thought out, and the execution of said standards was also terrible. And that was when the US government was still even mildly coherent.

The educators - the people who actually gave enough of a fuck to go through years of college and take a dirt poor job because they believed in teaching - should be setting the curriculum. Not some bullshitting politician on the hill.

Sounds like the knife fell out of the rack onto the heating element.

Personally, I don’t even put my knives in the dishwasher. Too much chance for them to be damaged or damage something else.

Edit: I guess redditors have never seen a fucking ceramic knife before? Or am I missing something here?

Could also just be a painted blade knife, which are also common.

I always viewed it more as the artists trying to depict each of the digimon as if they were angels in their final forms, as in being in a celestial or god-like state.

The thing about opossums is that they are notorious for not biting. Their defensive behaviours are hissing, running away, and playing dead.

Anecdotally, I’ve only ever seen one piece of footage of a caught opossum biting - out of hundreds of videos - and it was because the guy was holding the opossum my the scruff and sticking his finger in its face. This is why i believe those reports that oppossums aren’t likely to hurt you, and why i said what I said earlier.

So our options are:

• powerful but not afraid to lash out at you.
• strong secondary abilities but you will stink forever.
• terrible stats but will not hurt you.

Ya know, I don’t think we should be doing animal pit fights with local wildlife, or at all maybe.

Hard disagree about horror films and ‘scary movies’ needing to be ‘scary’. That’s an extremely subjective measure that just starts useless arguments.

Just like any other film, what it actually needs is good writing, good acting, and good cinematography, parts which are more concrete than whether something’s scary. The horror part is essentially just an aesthetic which a movie can sit within.

Also, quite often the view that ‘scary movies should be scary’ just leads to directors creating films that are hard to watch, period - full of vapid jumpscares, scenes made to just gross out the audience, and often just torture fetish content. It’s a terrible metric to aspire to that generally degrades the entire genre imo.

I asked the same question about a decade back. The answer I got was that it was attempted in the past, and any time it was done the project got a cease and desist. Based on that explanation, it’s much simpler for devs to build a workflow with no resemblence and a avoid legal trouble altogether.

This reads like someone who just isn’t willing to learn whatever new workflow the software requires. If that’s the issue, then that person will never leave their enshittified walled gardens. There is no workflow that matches or imitates the one you learned, it’s probably copyrighted, you’re best bet is to jump ship and learn a new paradigm.

Also, have yet to run into an alternative that’s actively recommended which doesn’t at least have a windows build. LibreOffice, Krita, Blender, Darktable, GIMP, Audacity, Inkscape, and Openshot - the most common recs as alternatives to apps, all have windows as an option.

The reply is stooping to the same level by personifying the octopi and applying human gender theory onto them, but it’s doing so specifically to show that this framing is misogynistic. It’s not as simple to clearly demonstrate this sexism if you stop personifying the octopi. Because there’s layers of misconstruance, it’s much simpler to address the layer you specifically have issue with rather than all layers at once.

It’s not really a simple issue to handle cleanly without becoming clunky with explanations. The same communication dilemma happens with STEM trying to address misinformation.