There's a whole range of "Kosher" products that try to find loopholes in the "no work on Saturday," rule. My favorite meme is the Kosher Switch. A light switch that operates the lights, OR DOES IT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbkvJznmwU

So many good memes. "It also eliminates the accidental use of traditional light switches." Jump to 2:50 for the insanity of "how it works."

They'll look at a white person who makes a meal who uses all the fresh ingredients like garlic, onion, salt, parsely, paprika, seperately, but because they're not shaking it out from a plastic shaker, we're not seasoning food.

No, that cooking with all those fresh ingredients is the better form of the shaking the dried ingredients onto dishes.

Not to be that guy but... I'm gonna be that guy. "Fresh" salt makes no sense. Neither does "dried" salt, I guess unless you're harvesting sea salt. Paprika is, by definition, dried, ground, red pepper. The "freshest" homemade paprika is still going to be dried and powdered. Your store-bought onion/garlic is already "cured" by letting it dry for shelf-life. This is not a big deal because even home-grown garlic is usually cured for the sake of storage. Ever seen a garlic braid? Drying/curing is why those exist.

I want to agree with you in spirit, but parsley is literally the only example you gave where fresh, not dried, is really relevant. Come to think of it, isn't being dried a requirement for something being considered a spice? Fresh herbs are a thing but fresh spices, not so much.

When people like that complain about "Christianocentric stories" they're not talking about on-screen depictions of religion. They're complaining about the storytelling having American (read: Christian) values as the reference point. They're not mad because Kirk mentions there being one god. They're mad because they find morality repugnant.

"Does the game play itself on Shabbat or do I need an elaborate system of pulleys to make it not count?"

What if we took the existing mass of Israel and just spread it out across a larger area?

Really it's every other review of this game that makes me doubtful. Mainly that the mech stuff and customization is surface level. Sounds like it's just an objective shooter with a robust monetization system.

You mean previously? Because I'd say Hunter and the Big Guy's Ukraine shenanigans are very relevant.

poses

"JD Vance stands there while three classmates take silly photo."

You're right, but you're missing the role of social media.

though it's usually in spans of centuries

Fashion prior to the mid 00's didn't have stuff like Instagram pushing normal female fad-following behavior into overdrive. I make no claim about how much of it is authentic vs astroturfed but as far as adoption speed, it's important to consider.

I guess the MySpace era occupies that gap between online quick fad spread and the DEI push.

"Hired because of her identity," is one of the nicer versions I've heard of Harris's career path.

This case is more understandable. They essentially contracted for a list of "bad words" in a language they didn't speak for the chat filter. I'm sure the game played fine.

If I were a dev and made this same mistake, I could play test the absolute shit out of it without realizing that someone added something controversial in the German word filters. Is a "Merkel" a political leader or a depraved sex act? I certainly don't know; could be either. The only way this particular one gets caught is if you proofread the entire filter list with the awareness of every language it covers.

My problem is that this third-party clearly sucks at their job and should be avoided, but protecting their identity lets them fuck up other studios' projects. There is a severe lack of accountability in business-to-business relationships because no one wants to say, "these guys are 0/5 star, don't ever hire," because they think it makes them look hard to work with.

Depends on who's on the committee. See: Disney. A mix of memorably bad and still somehow bland.

You can argue semantics if you want.

That's sort of how contracts work in the first place. But you're also right about the ban.

It does, but it's expected. There are two forces at play in an Olympics generally:

• The host country trying to promote its own culture
• The host country trying to appeal to international audience

The second one is always globohomo by definition. The first is usually watered down or, if Western, effectively globohomo as well. It's literally everything by committee and there are so many eyes on it, everyone who wants to try to push shit will use it as a vehicle.

>too recent, female, and pop
>mental health, self care, and of course therapy

Sounds like the ads are right on target for the demographic that would still be listening at this point in "country" music's trajectory.

Not really.

"I would like to enter your theme park."
"Okay, sign here."
"No."
"Understandable, come right in."

The only thing that contradicts that is some kind of "well everyone knows not agreeing to a EULA actually means agreeing" logic. Let me ask you this then: when presented with that UI, how do you refuse that agreement and close the game? Or is every possible action agreeing to their contract?

Why not a photo realistic cat girl?

“We sourced a list of words from a third party company which included words for multiple languages that would not likely come up during gameplay, as game chat is primarily intended to be used for team coordination. We are currently in the process of revising the censored word list and making changes in real time,” they added.

That's fair. Now name the third party.

Wouldn't this case hinge on anything they said being false? After all yelling "man" at a man is certainly not bullying. Seems like this is an issue easily remedied by a court-mandated gender test, entered into public record.

They got the timing perfect with that one. Game launched in JP in 1996. Anime started in JP in 1997.

Then they knew they were sitting on a goldmine and went into US syndication twenty days before the NA game launch.

before Harris fundraiser

At least they took the pile of crap with them when they left.

Interesting question.

Going off of wiki's latest population numbers and 2024 medal counts and ignoring the "Refugee Olympic Team" or "Individual Neutral Athletes." Top 5 would be:

Any medal:

1. Grenada: 2 medals / 112k people
2. Dominica: 1 medal / 67k people
3. Saint Lucia: 2 medals / 184k people
4. New Zealand: 20 medals / 5.3m people
5. Bahrain: 4 medals / 1.6m people

Australia, 9th.

Golds only:

1. Dominica: 1 gold / 67k people
2. Saint Lucia: 2 golds / 184k people
3. New Zealand: 10 golds / 5.3m people
4. Bahrain: 2 golds / 1.6m people
5. Slovenia: 2 golds / 2.1m people

Australia, 10th.

Fun fact: India beats Pakistan in per-capital medals. 6 medals / 1.4b vs. 1 medal / 241m, but Pakistan has infinitely more gold medals.

1 Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion
2 Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history

He could end his platform there and it would be sufficient for the next 4 years.

16 Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children

Stuff like this is a bonus. Some of the others are mixed but it's decent on the whole.

Oh no. Someone is talking shit about us. This has never happened before in the last ten years and our skin is so thin we just can't take it. Better give them engagement.

Sort of. I believe there's still legit stuff there. DEF CON is like a game dev conference where John Carmack is giving a masters-level panel on graphics engine pipelining where the audience is a bunch of RPG-maker LARPers thinking, "he's just like me! I'm a dev too!"