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I mean, that was implied. CoughEpsteincough

Oh no no no, when I said killing minorities I meant more along the lines of white guys blowing away anyone that ain’t white through a locked door in self defense.

It would be nice if self defense often meant an abused person ending their abuser, but what it usually looks like is shooting minorities.

I feel like a billionaire pedophile can afford to buy a fall guy to take the death penalty for them.

The problem with “self-defense” is that it is often a “pre-emptive self-defense”, which is indistinguishable from aggression. Especially when it becomes a question of personal self defense using lethal weapons.

Hmm. Didn’t know that, I never actually looked into the background of what happened to the show.

Otherwise, I think we agree. Very much rushed storylines. The way I saw it, season 8 should have been the fight against the white walkers, season 9 should have been the war between Daenerys and Cersei, with Daenerys going full mad king at the end, and season 10 should have been Bran pulling together a crew to depose Daenerys and establish himself as king.

Instead, that all happened in season 8, and Bran’s season was reduced down to one block of expository dialogue.

I never really understood the hate for the ending of Game of Thrones. It was very rushed, yes, with the final season combining three distinct plot arcs…but I got the distinct feeling it was the result of them planning on ten seasons and execs deciding to stop at eight.

It all pretty much made sense within the arc of the show otherwise.

Alex Jones was partially correct, they are in fact turning the frogs gay, and this extends to people as well.

Specifically, endocrine disrupting chemicals, which are commonly used as plasticizers and flame retardants, disrupt your endocrine system. I.e. they fuck with your hormones.

Exposure to environmental stimuli, including such chemicals, can cause changes in sexual behavior and characteristics. This was the driving force of the plot of Jurassic Park.

This cannot be proven without seriously unethical human trials, but exposing a every other animal to EDCs during development can and does cause changes in sexual development.

Edit: other pollutants are causing societal effects as well, there was a study on crawfish out of NC a while back that found significant behavioral changes (less aggression, more foraging) among males that lived in a stream which was exposed to sewage, and therefore low level antidepressant medication.

Exactly. Even in the worst case, it’s better to ship a bottle of wine from California to Canada, than try to use greenhouses to make a Canadian winery a reality.

Nah, humanity is really good at shipping. Locally sourced wine is only environmentally friendlier than shipping if you happen to live in a vintner.

Nah. Not really. Time zones don’t follow state boundaries because they generally follow natural population boundaries.

Sit and do nothing.

Money is an abstraction of time and resources. If you are interested in investing time and resources, your only option is to wander off, come back later, and hope that the problem fixes itself.