Maybe cameras are all sexist, and only like men? Didn't think of that, huh?

And here I thought Sanctum (and Sanctum 2) were the shooters that had towers and a core to protect. And they came out a decade ago.

Colleges have replaced high schools, since high schools stopped letting people fail out. That means modern colleges teach at about what used to be a grade 9, maybe 10 level, for their first year, to "catch up" all the quota students and bonus paycheck students that shouldn't have gotten in in the first place but did because high schools just arbitrarily give good marks.

So it's likely a homeschool thing, that he actually has a grade 9's knowledge in grade 9, instead of in grade 13.

Back in the olden days, if you violated the punishment of "exile", the punishment of "death" was immediately on the docket. "You got two weeks to get out of this country" isn't a hide and seek game, it's an exile order. You only violate exile orders for very good reasons.

Unicorn, forlorn, forsworn, torn, mourn, Capricorn, shorn... Just off the top of my head here. Some of those words are even ones the wokies like.

It's murkier than that. There are some sects that won't kill mosquitos, because... "Thou SHALT NOT KILL", straight-up. Not "no killing your homies", not "no killing the humans", even, just "no kill" as an absolute: All are gods creations and to kill them is to desecrate god's works.

Meanwhile, the more militant Old Testament sects view it as "thou shalt not kill... humans who worship the same god as you in the specific same way as you that haven't broken any other rules of man or god, because after all, the bible's got the death penalty for basically everything, and we could use a bit more land, so that's all kosher".

There's a HUGE range in how such a simple rule is interpreted.

"Plausible". It's possible, but not plausible. Someone like Milei when he first got into power might have a shot due to the nightmare political scenario he inherited. And someone creating a nightmare political scenario might also be able to do it.

He was weak, inefficient, and when you have access to permanent polymorphic magic, he was ugly and not even in an intimidating way.

Lord Val-U-Mart is some tiki-torch tubby self-hating half-breed.

Japanese curry may be inferior in almost every way, but it's still a perfectly satisfactory curry if you need one.

I learned the truth of my flesh, and it disgusted me. I craved the surety of steel.

In other words, I found humans to be flighty, unpredictable, back-stabbing, and wildly erratic in their quality, while computers were solidly predictable, fair, reasonable, and even if they cheated, they did so in honest and clear ways.

I also learned humans can work together to make great works. The modding scene is amazing. But that first lesson is ever-present: Those generous benefactors, coworkers, co-programmers and collaborators can turn on you in a moment, to get some personal thrill or commendation at your expense. Your friends can lift you up, and help, together, to make truly amazing things... But choose your friends carefully.

And that sometimes, you don't have that option. You need to work with a snake. And you need to manage that, because for one reason or another, you need that snake's skills for the time being. They WILL harm you, eventually, so risk-assessment and social-threat-assessment are important skills to gain.

The claim of "perhaps even zero" makes mockery of everything, that line in itself is enough to deem the opinion of the author invalid and insipid.

There were already deaths. The battle was ongoing, WHILE THE PLANES WERE IN THE AIR. More deaths occurred between the bombs dropping and the surrender! That alone automatically makes their claim a lie. To claim that NOT stopping your enemy from murdering your people will magically prevent all deaths is insane.

And I guess the author was a big fan of the abductions and Raping of Nanking, huge fans of rape and kidnapping that author. Like, Japan was a cartoon villain in that war, because their morality was such a different perspective from ours.

I watch anime on 2x speed and still have time to read the subtitles leisurely, then slowly drag my eyes across the entire scene taking place.

The complaints of the woke were "there's too many Chinese-coded people in this Chinese game. Why isn't the Chinese phone game about appeasing Chinese audiences more about Africa?!"

"Alright, I need you all to pick an approximately 90 second scene from an anime or video game, and explain why it's the best one of all time for any specific category, like spectacle, storytelling, art, hype, whatever. Best one wins a prize, but if two people pick from the same franchise, they're disqualified."

Which given it's a birthday party of a friend, odds are reasonable their friends are at least cordial with you, as a friend within the same "friend group".

Alas, if only science could define the concept of male and female. But alas, while corvids, rats, termites, and particularly smart dragonfruit cacti have figured it out, such advancements are beyond that of human ken.

There are plenty of interviews about "owning the leftards" where an interviewer goes up and asks a Kamala supporter what they like about her, and they're just stunned into silence for a while until they manage to choke out "she woman. Woman good." like a retarded caveman...

But there's an important thing in here: These interviewers ARE finding these people. And they're not looking all that hard to locate them. Lots of NPCs are out there going "Me vote Kamala. Kamala sound like Koala. Koala funny bear. Hehe.", and they will follow through with it, they will vote (D), because the mass media told them to. NPCs in the most classic sense of the term, they're thoughtless constructs that exist solely to provide opposition to the active players... But they're common, and numerous.

He SHOULD be paranoid. He SHOULD think that there isn't enough being done. Complacency and docility are far more mind-killers than fear is.

Father of memes, you know not what you've birthed.

You live in a world where Buddy Jesus was ever the Lord, where Christ never said to sell your cloak and buy a sword, where the Lord thy God never said "thou shalt have no other gods before me" in His commandments. Sunshine and rainbows, not one person inconvenienced, let alone killed, for blasphemy, apostasy, nor heresy.

What a fanciful world.

Dawkins had faith... in humanity.

That was a mistake, as any theologist will tell you humanity is nothing compared to God, and any atheologist will tell you humans operate on selfish hedonistic pleasure-feedback systems with minimal self-control and basically no delayed gratification (or in other words, humans kinda suck).

The USA is an extreme rarity.

Not really. Plenty of nations and powerful empires have lasted for 250 years, just fine, on both more stable and on shakier grounds than the USA.

Don't get me wrong, a nation lasting more than one leader's lifetime is impressive, for sure, but that's like living past the infant mortality rate: Once you account for and ignore that part, there's a real long lifespan period afterwards where the failure rate is pretty low.

Unless you're in a cosplay that prohibits it (the cost of fashion, alas), I'd advise looking into high-SPF arm-stockings. I don't know the exact word for them, but they're really breathable fabric you can put on your arms like open socks (so your hands are free) that stop you from getting burned, even if they get wet/sweaty/out for a long time.

Ah, probation, the "you promise, pretty promise, to not go out and kill people, murderer? Okay, no one is as trustworthy as criminals!" procedure.

Stop fucking birds and eating monkeys. Yeesh.

Beyond that: All science is, is questioning.

You CANNOT "prove" anything in science. All you can do is reject the null hypothesis.

"Thus we cannot say for certain that X, in fact, does absolutely nothing" is the strongest golden standard of result in science. It is hedged bets upon hedged bets. It's the theory of gravity, because who knows, it might be wrong! Maybe it doesn't work like we think it does! (And then when we get down to sub-particle physics... it doesn't! So we were right to keep it as just a generally useful theory rather than 100% accepted law.)