How did American Christianity become so perverted that eating meat is considered to be a Christian value?

Yes, the United States does not make the necessary investments in infrastructure any more. Short-term thinking and populism, coupled with Neoliberalist economics has led us to this sorry situation.

I don’t understand this. Disney licenses the rights to Winnie the Pooh from the estate of the book author A. A. Milne. The book copyright doesn’t expire until 2026.

They sometimes get call “the cat of spare parts”.

I don’t have the space for this. I will have to be Legoless (Legolas, Legoless, get it?).

I hope it’s small enough that I can get that Corvega Atomic V-8 I was promised.

Every reality show is rigged and semi-scripted.

What do you expect when Republicans have been living under Reagan’s “government is always the problem” paradigm for 40 years?

Yes, but that would mean diverting resources from their culture wars grand plan. They only care about winning, not governing. So they will only govern when they believe it has a good votes return on the investment.

One of the jobs of power utilities is to remove tree hazards from next to power lines, and even to bury the lines underground where necessary. Yes, it costs money and increases loses, but many countries do this to ensure a reliable energy supply (and to remove eyesores).

My understanding is that Dodos were not naturally so er, portly. They got like that because sailors were feeding them (probably with food that was not suitable for them).

Yes, there were earlier stacked pixel CCD patents. Again hard to build, and in the case of CCDs, they don’t scale well to higher pixel per second readout rates.

Leica and Hasselblad don’t make image sensors.

For now, there’s really only one way to capture an HDR image when lighting conditions vary wildly across the frame: you take multiple shots with different exposures, and then assemble a final composite using the properly exposed areas from the various images.

The new trope I’m referring to is the strong female lead who is just replacing a toxic, swaggering, alpha male with a female copy. It’s important to have some female characters who just like the men solve every problem using violence (Brienne of Tarth was one of my favorite characters in both the books and the GoT…

I gave up on Willow after 3 or 4 episodes. Horrible characters. Endless neo-tropes. Terrible dialog. Awful acting.

Herein lies the problem, discussing statistical distributions and probabilities with people who want to reduce everything to black and white.

A bit OT, but Mother Teresa was a monster who believed that those under her care should suffer instead of receiving care that could have eased their pain, or even saved their lives. She was also not a real mother. I would not listen to that evil woman’s views on abortion (which are similarly warped by religious dogma…

That’s it! I’m definitely not going to watch the next Superman movie. Oh, hang on. I wasn’t going to watch it anyway.

In the video they explain that they added insulation and heaters.