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Funny… either Putin is a coldblooded calculating master manipulator or a bumbling incompetent stumbling through one embarrassment to the next. I guess it just depends on which day of the week it is.

“Fuck your magic, free Lilo and Stitch”

I shout as I start downloading Lilo and Stitch from a torrent

Spray foam is still legal, so there is no way to gain compensation, and the industry is not regulated – neither the installation nor the removal – so choices are open to abuse by companies supplying these services.”

Homeowners say they were misled by the government, which exempted the insulation from VAT to promote uptake, as well as issuing grants worth up to two thirds of the installation costs. They feel this suggested the insulation was being endorsed.

Sounds like a “well there’s your problem” situation.

Hah!

Unfortunately I’m not in any specific position to have access to things that could be of help.

But good to know.

Doesn’t have everything, but does have quite a bit. Still 10/10, would use again.

Does it count if I’ve actually driven tanks?

There are things that are safe but not effective.

There are things that are effective but not safe.

There are things that are neither safe nor effective.

For example: There was some drug to stop morning sickness (im lazy and not going to look up the drug’s name) that was really effective but absolutely turned out to not be safe as it caused all sorts of birth defects in the developing fetus.

Give people options in case one doesn’t work for them.

me hearing a person’s name once during being introduced

me… minutes later realizing that there is just a blank spot in my memory where there name should be

me… waiting for months hoping that somebody uses their name around me in a context that attaches a name to that person because I’m too much of a coward to ask the person directly

When the gnome asked for “Full Plate Armor” and we made do with what we had…

make a backup

Pffftt… coward.

/s

Promised a friend that I’d visit them.

Flew across the country to spend a few weeks hanging out.

Got food poisoning at one of the layover food shacks.

I had a blast… literally (from my ass) and figuratively (hanging out with a buddy). It was a lot of fun and horribly uncomfortable/embarrassing the entire time.

Oh… you were asking a rhetorical question.

Yeah, sure. That works.

Depends on how things are organized i guess.

Two things that come to mind are dictatorships and aristocracies, at least as far a governments go.

A missed opportunity to have the label just look like a cheese burger.

On Tuesday MPs passed the controversial law which requires NGOs and independent media that receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign donors to register as organisations “bearing the interests of a foreign power”.

Only independent media though, this doesn’t apply to…umm… non-independent media cough cough.

However, her veto is only symbolic as the prime minister’s Georgian Dream party has enough members in parliament to override it by holding another vote.

“It feels a bit off-balance,” said Rogowski, who went on to point out that children already have many other damaging freedoms online where they are more exposed to danger and not protected.

Hey! The internet can abuse children, so I should be able to without anybody watching me!

For Rogowski, though, the efforts now made in Britain are in danger of inhibiting creativity. His scenes in Bird involve several small children and teenagers who are depicted in situations of social neglect and even imminent harm.

If you have to actually neglect and harm your actors to get a depiction of them being neglected and harmed, you’re a very bad film maker who shouldn’t be allowed to have actors who aren’t fully adult aged working for you.

Whybrew believes the issue is to achieve greater compliance with the laws and rules that are already in place. She added that regulation is hard to impose in an industry that relies on short-term contracts and where “a culture of fear” can lead workers to accept longer hours than they should and, in extreme cases, to submit to other forms of bad treatment or abuse.

Money quote of the article.

Depends on what you get to vote on, who gets to vote, if their votes count, etc.

A more democratic system could have done something like, we’ll test run Brexit for a few years, make an assessment, and then allow everybody to vote again to continue Brexiting or roll it back. But that’s not going to happen because … well… representative democracy is authoritarian by design. Nobody is going to put a “Roll Back Brexit” question on a ballot who championed a pro-Brexit stance and will fight any attempt to give the people a chance to vote again (heck, they’ll probably fight tooth and nail to keep any useful assessments of the effects of Brexit from being pushed into the public sphere to help voters make informed decisions as well).

Representative Democracies are, by definition, authoritarian. A small number of people are elected, democratically, to make the decisions for the majority.

Is the decision to end slavery a majority decision? Then it’s democratic.

With the contradiction being that the people who were pro slavery could just decide, “Nah, we’re not going to end slavery”, and continue to do slavery. Which I’m pretty sure is generally how that went in the USA.