Which, ironically, defeats the entire purpose of science.

Moral imperative ≠ logical imperative. There’s really no way around it.

People voted for Trump because he told them their issues are going to be addressed. You cannot tell someone that’s willing to vote for a wannabe fascist that their rights are somehow being secured three dominoes removed from trans rights. That is an abstract concept. Despite the fact that children should be capable of understanding abstract concepts, these are people who clearly cannot.

You have to appeal to them first because there are more of them. They are selfishly stupid and the simple virtue of your message is not enough to persuade them.

Get em

A small lump of metal, glass, bone and maybe a little goopie bits if they got trapped does not elicit the same mental image.

Well yes, the man himself may not have gone “woohoo, genocide, yippie!!” but there was absolutely an active genocide happening while the U.S. continued to give Israel billions in weapons, ammunition, vehicles, etc.

That being said, we’re gonna see it get a whole lot worse now that Trump is allowing Netanyahu to take the gloves off.

Nah, they served their purpose. When the next election rolls around and Trump decides he’s king/hands the presidency to Barron, expect some wild barrage of nonsense about why everyone except the people destroying the United States are actually at fault.

Yes, but that would be nuanced - anyone with a brain understands that people aren’t nuanced.

(This is a joke)

There needs to be a word for the cultivated delusion shared by the terminally online.

The only thing I hoped for in that match was for Tyson to smack the living shit out of Jake. That would have been the best outcome. That being said it was never going to end as anything other than Jake running around the ring.

Every single one of these “old vs young” fights is only meant to drive conversation about boxing. It’s a marketing ploy, not only that it’s working. Incredibly well. To say that Jake Paul is the face of boxing is not an understatement. It is a sad indication of where the sport has fallen.

That being said, they still fucking hit each other. Call it a hard sparring match, whatever. Barrios vs Ramos was solid.

It’s only staged in the sense that it’s a 27 year old boxing a 58 year old. They still hit each other, it’s not like the punches were fake.

For the budding gardeners who might see this, do not use dogshit as fertilizer for the plants you eat.

the only thing

Got it, you’re blind.

Wasn’t there a huge scandal with Evergrande surrounding just how much of Chinese requirements were tied to real estate? Doesn’t that directly contradict what Xi saying here?

Not to mention, China has its own homeless problem - let’s not act like they’re doing so much better.

All I have to say is that I sincerely doubt that From Software and MiHoYo were looking at H:ZD when they made their very successful games. That’s my only point, you are allowed to have your opinions about H:ZD - I’m not saying that you’re wrong.

BotW completely changed the open world landscape. Yes it was a bad Zelda game, it was by no means a mediocre game. That first experience is fucking magical, and has been recreated to great effect in Elden Ring and Genshin Impact (I shouldn’t need to point out how popular both of those games are).

You can dislike that it was a bad Zelda game. Calling it mediocre is just patently false. Granted, yes - I’ve called the game ‘Horizon: Zero Awards’ because it definitely should have won at least something. However, it was not more impactful than BotW.

The fall of Rome took over two and a half centuries.

Sometimes you need to accept things are broken and move toward fixing them, not blindly stumble forward expecting everything to right itself.

I think their point is that if the people making the games were given fair compensation that they would be more willing to sacrifice IP rights.

I don’t see what makes them think that other than their own personal feelings on the matter, but I think that’s the message.

People don’t like the things they believe to be challenged, and many people fail to recognize what is a belief and what is a fact.

It’s the problem with knowing enough to not know how little you actually do (know).

You can certainly make an argument for young kids, i.e. teaching fractions and literally how to count (counting seconds).

Teenagers? No, not really. They’ll all have phones or something to tell the time by a certain age and hopefully they know their fractions / how to count. It might as well just be digital at that point.

A strawman that may actually be true, given how much poison the rich have dumped into our environment.