I've had to work with homeless people before. About 50% are people who don't want to be homeless and just need some help. The other 50% are people who are homeless because they've shit on, abused, and taken advantage of their friends and family so often that they've had enough and quit helping. They're the people who aren't just addicted to drugs, but they would be total pieces of shit even sober. They don't view you as a human being, they view you as prey - you're just another means for them to scam something and they don't give a shit about human decency or morality.
Most people would have sympathy and tolerance for the homeless if such a large proportion 1. didn't piss/shit all over like animals and 2. didn't leave other trash and dirty needles everywhere. Such assholes can't even be bothered to use a McDonald's restroom (unless they're injecting drugs) or a public trash can. All these people deserve is to be put on the moon so they can't stink up streets/stores with their feces or harass people minding their own business.
And most people demanding that everyone else have sympathy and tolerance for the homeless have the privilege of not having homeless on their doorstep.
The only biological evidence I have seen is that some languages are inherently easier for the brain to process than others. But this only pops up when you look at things like dyslexia: some languages like Italian produce no significant amount of the population with it, while in other languages such as English or Russian this affects something like 5% of the population.
It's probably accepted because (in the US at least) you need to financially compensate a surrogate a LOT of money, and even then not many women are willing to go through the inconvenience and health risks. A brief search engine checks indicates only a couple thousand babies are born from surrogates each year. In comparison, that's less than 1/10th of the number of sperm donor babies born each year so in the field of genetic dead ends going against God and reproducing anyway, people using surrogate mothers are low on the incident list.
"Don't have kids if you can't afford them!"
"Okay."
(surprised Pikachu when people take responsibility and choose not to have kids if it'll send them into poverty)
Gee maybe killing off the middle class was a mistake?
The problem is that such as situation is not so cut and dry. For example, you can have a failed pregnancy but since there is still a fetal heartbeat a doctor's hands are tied to do anything. This forces the woman to wait until she's in a health emergency like developing sepsis or other life-threatening development, before the doctors can lift a finger. "Hey your wife has a ticking time bomb but we have to wait until it explodes rather than remove it before it can hurt her" is not an ideal situation.
Actors get plastic surgery a LOT more than people realize, but when a job is botched EVERYONE notices it.
She managed to look cute and natural and turned herself into every other plastic surgery face bitch on Instagram.
Brendan wore a fat suit.
Fat activists cried greasy tears over it because they consider fat suits to be the equivalent of blackface, and of course The Whale is all about how this dude's life is a wreck because he's eating himself to death.
I'd rather watch a 12 million dollar movie with okay CGI and a good story/characters, than a 200 million dollar dollar movie with slightly-better-but-still-painfully-obvious-green-screen CGI with insufferable story/characters.
The Looney Tunes game - looks like a cheap cash grab - which is not surprising when you remember how fucked WB is.
Mio: Memories in Orbit - looks like a cool Hollow Knight game for people who need something to play while waiting for Silksong. I like the art style, looks like a coloured pencil drawing.
Farmagia - looks like too many things at once: farming + monster raising + Pikmin and the art looks meh.
Dragon Quest 3 remake - looks interesting, I never played the super old games.
Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - doesn't seem bad but I'm not that interested. Looks much more like a puzzle game and reminds me of Scribblenauts or something
Horizon Zero Dawn LEGO - weird to me because the selling point of the Horizon games are its beautiful environments. A LEGO version takes that away. Sony must still be under the impression that Aloy is this great iconic protagonist but she's rather boring. The best thing about the game's story is actually its backstory, while the story is average.
Ace Attorney Investigations collection - This is cool because it includes the game that never got released outside of Japan
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - Dangan Rompa spinoff that could be fun
Metroid Prime 4 - I was surprised they showed it. How long has the game been in development? And a few years ago production stopped entirely and was scrapped and they restarted because Nintendo was not satisfied with what they had so far. So I'm hoping they are holding themselves to high standards.
Cancer is more than just cells growing fast. For a cell to be cancerous it needs to have other specific characteristics.
For example, cancer cells lose what is known as "contact inhibition". Cells can sense each other and if they sense overcrowding they'll stop their cell cycle. But cancer cells will grow regardless of cell population density.
That's not saying lab meat would be automatically safe, just that it wouldn't be cancer cells.
The military is a setting where you can control several variables that would be far more difficult in other experiments. Say you want to test a food product on 1000 people. You need to factor in things like age, a person's diet, sex, pregnancy, previous health, physical activity, sleep, location, etc. when formulating such a study.
However, the military provides people of similar age, fitness, daily activity, etc. and it's easier to keep track of their diet and other factors that may be relevant to the results of such a study.
It's really difficult to conduct studies involving food, especially long-term, just because a person's life involves so many things it's hard to tell if there is an significant change (significant = relevant) good or bad.
iirc it's not just public figures you can't use any living person's likeness for advertising/branding without their permission like that either, and even if they're dead they might still having living relatives and/or an estate to put you in legal trouble
That law is working pretty much exactly as it should in terms of them claiming it. The injustice is how he was railroaded hard without much ability to defend himself really (if he could present any evidence at all, no matter how dumb, to show why he thought that they should have no real case)
Didn't his dipshit attorney accidentally send the defense attorney the ENTIRE contents of Jones' phone text records? Sounds like Jones had the opportunity to defend himself, but not the ability to do so in a way that would make him less fucked.
and then a massively oversized payment at the end just to punish him for existing.
Probably to prevent him from just using his business to continue to defame them.
If you were playing a straight dude in Inquisition you had a grand total of two romance options: Cassandra (dyke looking face and haircut) and Josephine (fantasy French, so of course she's dark skinned).
iirc EA tried to force Bioware into turning Dragon Age into an annual release, wanted to make it something like Assassin's Creed. The problem is that it took several years for Bioware to make DAO so its spine was broken getting DA2 out the door. Multiple veterans that helped make Bioware the company it was left during or soon after development. The effects of this were not felt for a bit, but by then Mass Effect 2 was so far in development that game did not take a huge hit.
After that, Bioware has been doing nothing but taking Ls with Mass Effect 3, Anthem, and Mass Effect Andromeda. The best thing they can say about one of their games in the past 15 years is that the Mass Effect trilogy remaster was not a disaster too.
Over the past 10 years there has been so much brain drain of veteran employee talent that it's just like the bug wearing Edgar's skin as a suit in Men in Black. These aren't the same people who made Dragon Age Origins - these aren't even the same people who made Dragon Age Inquisition.
There's nothing wrong dating a woman a bit older than you, but feminists downplay how once a woman is in her 30's the odds of her having issues conceiving, producing, and delivering a healthy child increase at an exponential rate. It's something like once a woman is in her 40's she's got a 1 in 12 chance of the child being a downie, and that's only one illness.
Sperm quality also decreases as a man ages but doesn't kick in until he's in his 40's. And I would have to check again but I think this only pertains to the ability to conceive, but not the risk of offspring having illness. This ends up with people downplaying the problems with an elderly man getting women pregnant, but they are overlooking that this increases the risk of the man getting severely ill or dying while his child is still growing up and leaving his child to be raised without an appropriate father figure.
Not sure why fantasy races have to have the same diverse makeup as god damn los angeles.
The problem with turning every place into a melting pot is that it implies an ease of travel. The modern world can have the average person travel hundreds of miles per day, but people notice (as much as they want to deny) that it doesn't make sense in a medieval fantasy setting where almost everyone is still traveling on foot. Not to mention how many places would be expected to have tight restrictions on immigration.
If the Dragon Age setting was established to be a place of fast and frequent global/national scale traffic, it wouldn't be a problem. But that's not the case, where even the exalted Grey Wardens are forced to walk and camp in the woods and the closest thing to multiculturalism is the Super Commies nation run by the Qunari.
There is a thing called "verisimilitude" where something needs to appear to be real even if it's not real. You see a dragon in a movie or show and it needs to look like it's a real creature, you can't have a bunch of shitty CGI that make it move like a nonexistent hologram and say "but dragons are fictional maybe dragons just look like shitty CGI hurr". People's brains won't accept that.
Similarly, having several different irl races among several different (fantasy) races like it's a New York public school is fucking with the verisimilitude of the setting because it implies the civilizations have widespread modern ease of travel.
If the places were always like that, then there wouldn't be all these different skin tones people would be far more blended due to hundreds/thousands of years or race mixing. But the characters don't have planes, trains, or automobiles and in Dragon Age even transport magic is extremely limited or else it would have been piss easy for your characters to travel around in previous DA games.
He recognized Chris Hansen's car up the street and turned around before going into the house lol