If the violence actually stops that and doesn’t just become a symbolic victory where the fascists get to keep the laws they passed at the cost of a punch at the legislative floor, sure. But that wasn’t my point. I wasn’t saying “violence in politics is a bad thing to consider under any and all circumstances”, but “if a country has reached a level of polarization where even the members of its governing body feel the need to resort to that with eachother, things have already gone wrong”. It’s a symptom of a serious problem coming to light, not the problem itself, in other words.

Not a fan of being out in nature, personally, at least not actual nature as opposed to like an urban park with deliberately laid out trees and flowers or something. I find city downtown areas more comforting. I imagine the bugs and forest creatures probably don’t particularly miss having one more human stomping around their habitat though.

To be fair, there is precident for things to escalate to physical violence on the floor of the US Congress. It was just in the lead-up to the civil war, is all. Arguments getting so heated that legislators can’t resist the urge to just beat up the other guy probably are a bad sign for a country.

It’s not even that we lack a way to define fish, it’s more that we lack a definition that isn’t arbitrary. One can define them as something like “vertebrates, except for all these ones that we don’t want to include”, but then there’s not really a clear reason to exclude all the amphibians and reptiles and mammals and such, other than that they don’t traditionally get called fish. Some of them even live in water, and a handful of fish can leave the water to a limited extent, so it isn’t even that.

Cells are basically the self replicating nanobots that sci fi sometimes has as an example of highly advanced technology, but naturally occurring.

Tankies don’t even really fit most definitions for leftism that try to use something more concrete than vibes. They just think they’re far left because they like the aesthetics of governments that tried to be or at least called themselves communist.

Isn’t this the entire “dollar store” industry? My understanding was that these kinds of thing were the entire reason that business model was profitable. Or does this company do it worse than say dollar general or something does?

I mean, the whole “no ethical consumption under capitalism” or “all corporate ethics are fake” type stuff has plenty of truth to it, but at the same time, one does have to get any good or service not made oneself from somewhere, and corporations are made up of people with different views about what they’re personally willing to do, or how much they think taking unethical actions even is the profitable thing. So, there is still room for some businesses to be worse than others.

To be fair, Hong Kong wasn’t really large numbers for the government that would actually have had to have been affected to change the policy, that is, mainland China. Had every other Chinese city had protests similar in relative scale, things might have gone differently.

Every second I’ve lived so far, I haven’t died, so if we simply take that pattern and extrapolate it for each future second…

Depending on nature of the save in question, Minecraft could be pretty chill. Like a creative mode world is godlike power, a peaceful world would be a chill place where you can easily just build your own home to live in, and even a regular survival world isn’t too bad given the respawns. Just as long as you don’t choose like, hardcore or a pvp server world or such.

Normally I’d make the typical “food crime” jokes about this choice of toppings, but somehow, being critical of Canadian cultural stuff, even just a joking manner, just feels horrible now, like it’d be in bad taste with all the undeserved trouble my country has been giving them of late. If they can find a way to enjoy pineapple pizza, good for them.

Those guys are what got me to finally start using adblocker, when they were running their videos as every other youtube ad (unless they still do that)

Has this kind of thing literally once in history ever ended well?

Zeppelin can launch and recover planes, therefore its true role in the fight is “aircraft carrier”

everyone knows when you cut the sandwich in half, you get two sandwiches instead of one. You cut diagonally because the triangle sandwiches are bigger than the rectangle ones you get from cutting down the middle. /s

IIRC the space force basically just is taking what was air force space command and spinning it off into its own branch. So they’d not be doing much that wasn’t being done before so much as making that operation independent of the air force, same as how the air force used to be part of the army.

I found it mildly humorous that I had to do one of those cloudflare “prove you’re a human” checks when opening this

Every time I see this meme, I’m reminded of this, which basically argues that the shire is just a specific type of feudal system, that looks like a place of rulerless plenty because the main characters are mostly that systems informal equivalent of nobility.

Protests can be an implied threat. Consider that when a state is resisted violently, a certain number of people is generally required for that effort to have a shot at success. When protests gain large enough numbers, there’s an implication of “we have all these people angry about this thing. Imagine what might happen if they were to stop being peaceful”.