Sounds like something is very wrong with Grey’s anatomy.

Killing half of the world’s other species on our way out?

We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning and we’re never learning
We didn’t start the fire
And we kinda like it so don’t try to fight it

ROMANI ITE DOMVM

I remember this better than anything I ever learned in Latin class.

So you’re critical of European (Neo-)colonialism, as am I. That’s relieving. Returning to my original point, I really do think that wasn’t very pertinent to the ongoing discussion. Maybe we can close this particular thread here. If you feel like going further into it, maybe opening a separate thread does make more sense.

You can shove your dogwhistles right out of here. What kind of socialist are you anyway? National?

Yeesh, that smells even worse than what I originally thought. 😬

African folks love the kindness of Europeans.

… is a statement which, even if correct, contributes absolutely nothing to the current debate. Feel free to open your own thread about it.

Well, common sense and calling for sustainable consumption are just not very sexy. Voters preferred the charismatic actor from Hollywood to the pragmatic farmer from Iowa, and that got all of us into this current mess.

Maybe the United States needs more politicians like Mamdani who combine no-nonsense progressive realpolitik with populist messaging.

Carter was promptly voted out of office and replaced with Ronald Reagan. We all know how that went.

It might have had something to do with Carter putting solar panels on the White House roof as well. Or the backroom deal that Reagan’s people made with the Khomeini regime to keep the American hostages in captivity until after the election. Who knows.

And, as I’ve said elsewhere, Nordstream had become politically untenable for Germany. Blowing it up saved the Scholz government a lot of headache.

That might be why Joe Biden said at a press conference that Nordstream 2 was never going to happen while Chancellor Scholz was standing right next to him and didn’t say a peep. A few days later, it was gone.

So at the end of the day, who cares about who blew up the pipeline? It needed to go, and go it did.

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Finally a trolley meme I can get behind.

And them being overweight affects others’ enjoyment of the game how exactly? Showering and deodorant are basic courtesy but why exactly is the player’s body shape an issue?

Only in shithole countries.

Oh, I see. Yes, probably. As any sensible person would.

They might do spot checks when taking delivery but I doubt they have the time to check each carton.

Or did you mean at checkout before YOU buy the eggs? If so, that’s not why they open each carton. They’re checking to see if you hid something in there.

Nice framing from the Economist with the word “install”. If anyone has installed allies in congress it is the pedophiliac billionaire cabal.

Yep, that’s another great question. Personally, I like the idea that art is any form of human expression that exists for its own sake. Not in order to be instructive or useful or to make money but simply because the person creating it felt like it (obviously this is an ideal and real life motivations vary).

More pragmatically, one might ask what art is good for, but since you didn’t, I’m not going to ramble here.

That said, there is the question I raised in my comment whether the work needs an audience, someone to behold it, in order to fully become art. I believe it does. If you paint a picture in the dark and hide it so nobody ever sees it, I struggle to accept it as art.

What’s your take on these questions?

In a good game they do, but those effects can be abstracted rather than simulated to save processing power.