Signtist

Anyone that would stop would've done so well before they got to the point of obscene wealth. Billionaires can only stop hypothetically - the only way to get them to actually stop is through force.

If by "we" you're referring to the American people as a whole, then no, no we don't. So many people I talk to are treating this like just another 4 years of republican shenanigans; I rarely find someone in real life who understands just how close we are to all-out war.

They're in a country full of angry people with guns who have been trained over generations to think that there's no need to use them - that protests will be enough because the only next logical step after that would be violence, and nobody wants that. But really, I don't have a lot of faith that most will actually use them - I know in my heart of hearts that I won't. I think we've been trained to have such faith in our loud bark that we're left completely unable to bite. There are a few individuals who have worked up the courage to take real action, but we'd need a lot more than that to scare the wealthy into playing fair. I hope I'm wrong, but every time I think about taking that next logical step as a result of all the inconsequential protests, I fail to even come close to having the courage to do so, and I don't think I the only one.

I was planning to get a Switch 2 just to keep it at 1.0 and wait for a scene to develop, but even the console alone is a bit out of my price range.

It's true that we evolved in response to an environment, but the actual genetic changes that allowed for that were not developed with purpose. They happened randomly, and the ones that happened to provide a benefit made those individuals more likely to have more kids that those with less beneficial random changes.

Had to make sure Berghain wasn't an art school. It would explain a lot if it was.

I mean, this is just normal resume building tactics taken to an extreme. The first thing I was taught when I was building my first resume was to focus on the most skillful tasks I handled while at work, rather than the most frequent. It doesn't matter that I only helped train a newbie once for a couple hours, my resume said that I trained and oversaw new hires. It doesn't matter that 99% of my job was sticking tags on clothes - few people care about that skill, so I didn't mention it on my resume at all.

It's unfortunately true. I was prepared to spend up to $400 for it, but the extra $50 hurts. The $70+ games put the final nail in the coffin. Maybe I'll be compelled to bite the bullet and get a Switch 2 after some more games come out, but for now I'll stick to Switch 1 and PC.

I want to clarify that your comment isn't a joke or hyperbole; from what I can tell, many conservative men honestly think that if you're going to portray a woman in media, it should be for the sexual benefit of a male audience. Portraying a woman in a way that makes them less sexually appealing - even if that simply makes their portrayal more realistic and less sexually exaggerated - is considered "woke."

Believe it or not, cheap asphalt.

Remember, there are 2 reasons why someone might say something. Either it's the truth, which makes no sense as you pointed out, or it's a convenient lie, which makes perfect sense for someone who benefits from maintaining the status quo while pretending to fight against it. It's well past the time to assume people are telling the truth until proven otherwise. It's time to just straight-up call a politician's lie a lie from the smell alone.

It was ruined for me when I was getting my masters in genetics and learned that "mitochondria" is plural, and the singular is "mitochondrion." So, it's either "the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell" or "the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell," and neither feel right.