haram_masala

First of all, it’s not just women appearing in pornography.

Some people believe that pornography is inherently harmful; that viewing it degrades the viewer and psychologically harms them. Making pornography “acceptable” would be accepting this harm, inflicted on countless millions of people, in order to protect the relatively tiny amount of people who perform in it.

In some ways Dwight was un-Flanderized. He stopped being a hapless sycophant to Michael, and he started showing comprehension of other peoples’ feelings. Mellowing him out like that made him more relatable but ultimately not as much fun.

> BTC works perfectly fine without carbon output

I’m not sure I follow this (admittedly I don’t know much about how BTC actually works). Doesn’t mining also serve the purpose of verifying transactions?

Is almond milk an improvement with regards to environmental impact, though? Almonds are a very resource-intensive crop, and in my experience there’s a lot of waste involved when making almond milk.

This seems excessively harsh. I don’t think we should doubt the sincerity of people who believe that modern agriculture should be transformed in order to reduce its climate impact.

I read articles like this and think, "It's time to give up 3D printing as a hobby."

I'm sure it does if you read Russia Today and Xinhua.

She reminds me of an intelligent Adria Richards.

My guess is that she made a base of around $450K and probably equal that in options and bonuses.

Nonsense, that plan worked perfectly in Call of Duty 4.

The CBP has not been documented sterilizing anyone.

Years ago I looked at, and sorta-learned, Blender for use as a tool for designing simple 3D printed objects. It wasn’t the best tool for that, and I switched to Fusion 360, which is awesome. But F360 isn’t actually free for hobbyists; you have to affirmatively renew your trial every year, which makes me nervous. Has Blender become better for this kind of thing?

To (mis-)quote Eric Hoffer, “Every great cause starts off as a movement, turns into a business, and ends up as a racket.”

This reminds me of a optometrist exam. And, gives me an idea for an improved version of one.

"Without US arms and funds, Israel's militaristic stance would not be possible."

And without intense lobbying by pro-Israeli groups in the US, those arms and funds wouldn't be possible.

"Saying that 'Congress is Subservient to a Foreign Power' is completely different than saying 'A Foreign Power has influence in Congress'."

I'm well aware of that.

Alex Trebek was a favorite victim of Longmont Potion Castle. But what always stood out about those calls was Trebek’s kindness, his common sense, and his amazing refusal to lose his temper amidst the tsunami of diabolical absurdity that is an LPC call. Trebek was one of the very, very few call recipients who “won” at Longmont Potion Castle.

Maybe they sang a lot.

How frequently did you fast? And did you eat “normal” amounts on non-fasting days?

No control group, and n=14. This study says nothing.

Oh! I'm really sorry about that, my mistake.

You're talking about the mass murder of easily 20 million people.

No one is really sure, which is a pretty unsatisfactory answer. The original radiation measurements were performed with a gamma spectrometer mounted on a helicopter, which is not useful for finding radioactive contamination in the ground - and the officials who knew this at the time, yet claimed the site was clean, are now in a lot of trouble.

https://sf.curbed.com/2020/1/23/21075707/shipyard-radiation-...

Side note, Treasure Island also has, or had, a pretty serious radioactivity contamination. I've measured slightly elevated emissions there myself, as a matter of fact.

This has WiFi.

Thank you. This was my first thought too, and then for some reason I felt like a jerk for going there.

How do you know he's great? I strongly suspect that when you scratch the surface there, you might find he's somewhat less than that. You very well might not be the only one who's covering for him, in one way or another.

I'd chalk a lot of that up to automated language translation, to be fair.

Excuse me, that's "Microsoft GPT-3" to you, buddy.

Yeah - no error bars? That's just crazy.