Ultimately, the parents. The parents enable the bad behavior at home, the parents don't hold the teachers and especially administrators/boards accountable for their terrible decisions, and - most importantly - the parents keep voting (most importantly on local but also federal and state levels) for the same stuff.
Even the edit is garbage, though. Anyone who has actually had cause to shove someone or something who looks at that is just going to say "that's it?" At worst, the edit shows a very slight slap, and the guy who was "shoved" seems totally unphased by it.
Just goes to show a) how braindead the NPCs are and b) how physically weak they are.
Hell, some unions here already are basically mouthpieces for the employer, and it seemed to get worse under Covid in some places.
And if they're not mouthpieces for the employer, then they're almost certainly mouthpieces for the government.
Were the bugs even space-capable?
Yes, they had a whole interplanetary empire. The Federation declared the entire Bug empire a quarantine zone to try to prevent any conflict between them and the Bugs. Some independent human groups (darn you Mormons!) breaking off from the Federation chose to settle within the quarantine zone. After they were wiped out, the Federation government broadcast footage of these attacks, telling people to stay the heck out of the quarantine zone, and took no offensive actions until Buenos Ares.
I don't remember any actual evidence of the bugs being behind the destruction of Buenos Aires.
At least two separate asteroids originate in Bug space, on a course for Earth. The first one clips a Federation ship and continues on it's course straight at Buenos Ares. The second one was aimed at South Africa before missile batteries blew it up. I'm sure that's just a coincidence though.
Yeah, pressing X to doubt that. You never thought something along the lines of "Hmmm, I've got $20. How many $4 sandwiches (or whatever) can I get with that?" Because that's algebra: 4*x = 20, x=5. The fact that you probably (and virtually everybody should be able to) did it in your head in 2 seconds without writing the formula out just means you understand the process intuitively.
But then, he's already in prison, and they've got total control over his whereabouts and diet. Even Russia could set up something deniable under those circumstances.
I gotta wonder why Putin just didn't go the Litvinenko route again. Or maybe they did do something similar and Navalny was essentially dead already when he "tripped"
The problem is that anything which can be gotten for or done for free is worth nothing. As long as voting is a free thing, people will keep voting blindly.
A much simpler solution is just a poll tax (if we assume the 24th amendment is repealed). Even just a $2-3 poll tax would sort out most of the issues.
Barring that, ban all early voting and virtually all mail-in voting and declare election days holidays. With that, at least people need to choose between "have a day off" and "stand in line" and many people will not care enough to stand in line.
Andromeda will fall and Russian troops will be marching through the streets of the Megellanic Clouds before the decade is over.
Just off the first few things in the list, and using Wikipedia (yes, yes, I know a terrible source)
Paper:
The first paper-like plant-based writing sheet was papyrus in Egypt, but the first true papermaking process was documented in China during the Eastern Han period (25–220 AD),
Chess:
The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh century India. The rules of chess as they are known today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century.
Alphabets:
The first letters were invented in Ancient Egypt to aid writers already using Egyptian hieroglyphs, now referred to by lexicographers as the Egyptian uniliteral signs.....The first fully phonemic script was the Proto-Sinaitic script, also descending from Egyptian hieroglyphics, which was later modified to create the Phoenician alphabet. The Phoenician system is considered the first true alphabet and is the ultimate ancestor of many modern scripts, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and possibly Brahmic.
Medicine:
The earliest known medical texts in the world were found in the ancient Syrian city of Ebla and date back to 2500 BCE.
Civilization:
The Natufian culture in the Levantine corridor provides the earliest case of a Neolithic Revolution, with the planting of cereal crops attested from c. 11,000 BCE. The earliest neolithic technology and lifestyle were established first in Western Asia (for example at Göbekli Tepe, from about 9,130 BCE), later in the Yellow River and Yangtze basins in China (for example the Peiligang and Pengtoushan cultures), and from these cores spread across Eurasia. Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest civilizations developing from 7,400 years ago.
Airplane Propeller: "Adams" is not even mentioned in the Propeller_(aeronautics) article.
So, yeah, out of the first 6 items, being SUPER generous "Africa" gets 1 point - half a point for proto-paper and half a point for proto-alphabet. And both of those are Egypt, not sub-saharan Africa.
The actual rundown:
Middle East: 3 points - alphabet, medicine and civilization
China: 2 points - Paper, 1/2 point on civilization and 1/2 point on propeller
Europe: 1.5 points - Propeller, 1/2 point on chess
India (tie): 1 point - chess
Egypt (tie): 1 point - 1/2 point on paper, 1/2 point on alphabet.
For me, I gave up on Ubisoft games when they started requiring you to get a UPlay account and register it and play it with their launcher even if you bought it on a different platform. And not only do they have the additional launcher, but from everything I've read they're still struggling to figure out Offline Mode with said launcher.
Nah, he's crazy. He could just as easily have said "Thanks for the thought, we'll look into it", or just not replied if the real answer was "we aren't allowed to do that." Instead, he just immediately went to insulting the very platform he was using.
Hopefully he holds the line, because it should be DOA.
The bill includes $60.06 billion to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, $14.1 billion in security assistance for Israel, $20.23 billion for border security, $2.44 billion to US Central Command and the conflict in the Red Sea, and $4.83 billion to support US partners in the Indo-Pacific facing Chinese aggression. An additional $10 billion would go toward humanitarian assistance for populations in Gaza, the West Bank, and Ukraine.
Less than 20% of the money has anything to do with the border.
Plus, the whole bit about how it's only an emergency if you have >35000 ENCOUNTERED illegal crossings in a week, or >8500 ENCOUNTERED illegal crossings in one day. Ignoring the fact that both of those numbers are too high by two orders of magnitude, you know a very easy way to ensure you have less than those numbers? Telling the border patrol to stand down when they get to around 2/3 of that number. "Sure, we went for a five hour lunch today starting at 10:30, but we only encountered 3000 border crossers. Everything is fine"
Unless they're so fucking stupid that they can't handle any challenge or affront to their authority, even in the slightest way possible.
I think it's more arrogance than stupidity, but that's the main reason. Even the slightest defiance is enough to send most of these people into a blind rage.
My money is on Froody here never going more than 2 miles outside of whatever city he lives in, and never meeting someone IRL who did any actual prepping. I know multiple people who raise chickens, and I've got a full-on dairy farm (with an accompanying store) within walking distance of where I live. And I know a guy who leads hiking tours where he literally points out medicinal plants and their uses.
The weapons are (outside of hunting, of course) just to keep Froody and Co from stealing everything people spent their lives working to build.
It seems to be an all too common story that people picked up the funny pokemon with guns game to laugh at how terrible it was, only to emerge after an 18hour binge of what has turned out to be a genuinely enjoyable experience.
Only had time to mess around with it briefly, and the controls are a little finicky to me but what's not to like about beating the snot out of a sheep pokemon, shoving him into a magic ball and then making him build beds for you made out of his own wool?
It's even worse than the thread title says. She's suing them because she does not believe they will be able to meet their claim of being carbon neutral by 2040. She can predict what will happen over the next 14 years, has unilaterally decided they are wrong and thus is suing them.