BillyClark

I have heard that beached marine mammals are often too sick to swim properly and that rather than pushing them back in, it’s better to call wildlife rescue for advice.

There is a basic conflict between freedom of speech and democracy. As long as people’s sources of news and information are permitted to lie and spread misinformation and disinformation, citizens will be unable to make informed decisions.

Considering how many more people died from COVID than needed to, simply due to Trump’s actions (and inaction), he’s technically a mass murderer more than a serial killer.

It was part of the paperwork requested by the person who arranged my loan and there were no follow up questions.

I once had to “explain the gap in my CV” when applying for a loan. And apparently, “I didn’t feel like working for those 6 months,” wasn’t a good enough explanation. Even though I think literally everybody personally understands the concept.

I ended up saying that I spent the time taking care of my parents, since I did spend some of that time taking care of them.

I think people should rate things consistently, and both of those criteria in the post are fairly subjective. Like, they could both vary based on your mood.

Here’s my 3-star rating system, which is less subjective:

*** I would happily watch this movie again, or I have already enjoyed it multiple times.

** It wasn’t bad, but I don’t see myself watching it again.

* I would refuse to watch this again, or I turned it off because I couldn’t watch it once.

Of course, it’s not perfect. Movies like Dear Zachary would be forced to be 2 stars. But for the most part, since star reviews are to help people decide what to watch, if the criteria is whether or not people would want to watch it a lot, I think the intentions line up with the implementation better.

Exactly. It’s sad, but in America, if you say something to a cop, and the cop, for example, “misremembers” and says that you confessed to a crime, you can be in hot water. If you simply don’t speak to a cop, then it’s more difficult for the cop to “misremember”.

That’s an extreme example, and it’s getting less likely with cops wearing more bodycams, but there’s simply no reason to take the risk of talking to a cop.

I wouldn’t go for this. Even in Victorian times, the catapult was outdated technology.

Now, then, if it were a trebuchet, then you’d really see how far that baby could go.

Oh my, I hope he didn’t get rid of my private collection.

I suspect that most Linux users are former Windows users.

You can tell from the background that this isn’t my attic.

The admins vary by server.

It’s not particularly funny in the first place.

If a sidewalk is overgrown by grass and then people walk on the grass to make a desire path, that would be more obvious, I think.

I’m just saying this would be like that. There’s a place where people would want to walk if only there was a path there, but there is a path. It’s obstructed by snow.

とくにもくてきはないひと

means “Write out what you have to say, and then delete the last sentence”?

Sorry my phone is not letting me write properly in Japanese for some reason…

This is a desire path on top of a normal path.

It takes no time to make up some bullshit numbers. If every time you come across some obviously bullshit numbers, you have to do all of the research that the bullshitter didn’t do, you wouldn’t have any time for anything else, and it wouldn’t do any good, anyways. You’re proposing a completely dominated and losing strategy.

I do not hate everyone. I am disappointed in everyone and save my hate for a select few.

ALE? NA

It’s irritating to see him looting the company like that when he actually delivers negative value to the company otherwise. Literally it would be better for Tesla to give those bonuses to some random person on the street than to Musk.

I know you’re joking, but illegal immigrants do kill people, just at a lower rate than the general population.

A big part of the problem is that if you’re an illegal immigrant, then you have a huge incentive to keep your fucking head down and not be noticed.

So you don’t notice the vast majority whose only crime was illegally entering the country. Meanwhile, the ones who do commit crimes make national news because some people have an agenda in spreading that type of news.