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The anger people have when you tell them it’s neglect when you just let a cat roam free. It’s insanity.

If you want to see people loose their mind, suggest that the way we dominate these animals to please us is the root cause of all that suffering and neglect.

*I live with a cat and am having beef for dinner. I'm a hypocrite, not PETA.

Rushdie should be more sympathetic to the Palestinians. After all, Hitchens, Maher, and Islamophobes at large have been using him as a human shield for years.

TED is just like sharktank. Only instead of having a good business idea contestants compete to sooth the guilt of wealthy liberals and promise them that technology is going to save us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cromwell

There are some English words and phrases that can't be said in American English. Like the "I inherited this government position from my father". Or, "Sure hope the King doesn't veto this legislation".

I know an Amanda Lynn, she can't sing for shit. But she slices onions and potatoes thin as paper.

random fact. The English word for bourgeois is burgher (pronounced like burger) . They both translate to "people of town". I'm trying to popularize "burgher" because I have a grudge against lunatic French spelling.

Just change the file extension to *.png. Works every time.

their highly-publicized repudiation of diversity initiatives.

That's only the latest in a series of blunders by Target that date back to the pandemic. They used to have a reputation of being a pleasant shopping experience. They used to be the "not Walmart". After the pandemic they were slow to re-staff and the predictable result was dirty stores, empty shelves, and long waits at checkout.

Here is an astrophysicist explaining mathematically why they suck: YouTube or Nebula.

There are over a hundred distros, There is no reason to keep using one if you don't like it. Use a VM to avoid multiple re-installs and be picky. You've got that luxury. Nobody is going to tell you how best to use your computer, unless you install MacOS or Windows.

They should have left the graphics alone and worked to squash bugs and add playability/quality-of-life features.

Those games are famous for being brilliant, but deeply flawed. Graphics were not the flaw.

This is a big deal. The emergence of eukaryotes may be more important to our biological story than the emergence of life.

Some have suggested (I saw it on PBS Spacetime) that eukaryotic evolution is the "great filter" that prevents civilizations and explains the Fermi paradox. Perhaps the universe is filled to the lid with slimes and bacteria, with complex cells being vanishingly rare or maybe unique.