Hmm, I don’t recall ever doing age verification for Discord. Were older accounts grandfather’d in, or is it currently limited by region or something?

He joked about wanting to date Ivanka on Howard Stern. He also said the grab em by the pussy thing, but at least there he didn’t know about the mic.

Either way, he wouldn’t care,and might even join in.

So, I haven’t checked project 2025, but there is a Christian nationalist plan that wants to take over everything called Seven Mountains Mandate. You can just read the link, but the idea is to take over what they consider all major parts of society, including business and have a Christian Dominion.

I think it’s just a play on succulent Chinese meal guy (he’s dead now).

Feels a bit like the 80s market crash. Too many low quality games flooding market.

That used to be true, but many companies moved to Personal Time Off(PTO) instead which doesn’t have that requirement. Will vary by state and country, but I can confirm in Florida and Gerogia in the US that it’s use it or lose it. No payout necessary, even if laid off.

People often read agendas where they may not be in simple but definitive phrase like that, especially if they seem similar to things people with agendas say.

For instance, someone might think you’re making a strong anti-abortion statement, including blaming women for wanting to have sex, but your statement doesn’t mention any of that. I could see a "pro-life"anti-abortion person saying that statement as a way of saying a woman should choose to die giving birth rather than getting an abortion, but I could also see it being the exact opposite argument in that if you don’t want to risk your life, get an abortion instead of having the kid.

In either case, people with opposing opinions may read what they dislike in your comment and downvote it. So it might explain something completely different about human society.

You’re either missing the point again, or intentionally asking at what point you can stop acknowledging prior contributions to claim it as your own. Let’s change it from food.

“At what point can I claim I invented math after it was taught to me?” - as long as it was taught and you didn’t discover it completely on your own, never. The work was built on the work of those that came before.

“At what point can I claim I invented computer technology without any assistance from any societies, technologies, or ideas from previous people or previous civilizations?” - If at birth you were left on a deserted island, and by yourself survived, created all tech by yourself, then yes. Otherwise, never.

So while you can say “Apple pie is part of American culture” and be correct, it will also always be true that American culture got parts of its culture from other cultures.

The point isn’t ownership(except maybe the land), its the complaint about culture. Food is definitely a part of culture, so these guys are enjoying culture from other lands they’re scared of. They also benefit from other cultures, either because of cheaper products/labor, or just what they produce.

I think it’s only been used to convict 1 person but, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography

I think they technically do, with stuff like Helldivers 2, Spiderman games, etc. I have Helldivers 2, but stopped playing it for a while in protest when they tried to make you use a PlayStation account for it, essentially cutting off a bunch of players in countries PlayStation doesn’t operate in.

Oh that I fully agree with. I believe in this particular case he wasn’t talking about complaints of sexual violence, but just sex in general. I personally have a huge aversion to media depicting sexual assault, and I avoid watching most shows that have it, even if it’s “important for the story” or “it’s really good despite that”.

Since I like anime/manga a lot, I’ll use examples there, but I won’t watch/read Berserk, Goblin Slayer, and DanDanDan, and I have a huge issue with how Rose is treated by the original Full Metal Alchemist anime series. The last especially because it wasn’t by the original author making the choice, by tv execs deciding it made better drama or something. There are lots of other reasons I prefer Brotherhood over the first anime, but the rape of Rose is definitely a significant one.

Weatern media is a bit harder for me to pull out examples I would have maybe watched but avoided because of this, but I guess I probably won’t ever watch A Clockwork Orange and I didn’t feel like watching Jessica Jones for those reasons. I’ve never followed Game of Thrones deeply either, so until looking up this quote I wasn’t quite aware sexual violence played a role( I think I suspected it, but heard more about red wedding etc). I was putting off watching it then everyones reaction to the last season dropped my interest, so I can’t claim sexual violence was the reason I haven’t seen it.

Iirc George R.R. Martin has a similar reaction when people complained about the amount of sex in Game of Thrones. A telegraph article that immediately asked me to login said that he was

always astonished that there’s always so much more controversy about the sex than about the violence," and that this reaction “says something about us that isn’t necessarily a good thing to say”

That’s somewhat incorrect. Their stingers have barbs that get stuck in skin and the like and pull out their organs when they try to extract, but that was because it evolved to pierce carapace, not skin. They can sting other insects without dying.

Also, as someone else pointed out, some bees, like bumblebees and carpenter bees,have smooth stingers that do not get stuck in skin.

People still will, because lots of people spoil, some like watching streaming etc. When new stuff comes out and I’m not ready to start it, it often also involves stop visiting certain communities, discords, etc.

Oh, it seems I said it in a way that sounded like all my teachers were like that. Not so. I meant I only remember the passionate ones. My 8th grade science teacher, my 10th grade chemistry teacher, my high school sociology teacher, my 11th grade American History teacher and my 11th and 12th grade Electronics teacher are the only ones I have significant memories of.

They were all passionate teachers that loved teaching, not just following a program or book. They taught with experiments, examples, etc. Even when I did things wrong. For example, the 8th grade science teacher. One experiment had us making H20 and NaCl from HCl and NaOH. We’d mix the HCl with a glass stirrer, and I started putting it in the Bunsen burner’s flame making it blue.

Teacher caught us and had us stay after class. But instead of just a punishment or lecture, they instead brought out a bunch of dangerous to burn items including magnesium and gave us protective gear, then demonstrated why putting random things in fire was bad. It was an excellent and very fun way to teach us a lesson.

The few teachers I actually remember were all enthusiastic about their subjects.

Edited for clarity.

I have metal versions. I don’t really use em, but they’re for stuff like alcoholic drinks or whiskey on ice but for if you don’t want it to get watered down, just cold. I have two that look like metal golf balls and 6 that are small cubes,and they generally just sit somewhere atm.

I’ve used em to cool booze before, but I haven’t drank any high percentage alcohol in a while.

My ice cubes are small enough that rinsing them would waste more water than just tossing the very few that fall. I toss em in the sink.

It’s still her responsibility to make sure her kid uses the internet responsibly. I don’t have any desire to defend chaterbate (never used it, and don’t know much about it) but there are tons of harmful sites out there, forums, places like 4chan and 8chan which are likely even more damaging than some porn sites.

It isn’t the site’s responsibility to make sure you aren’t lying when you claim you’re over 18, unless you want every site to have all of your personal data.