I was taking Hmong language classes at one point, and it took me a while at the section on animals to realize by “buffalo” they meant Asian water buffalo. I was like, dude, there’s no buffalo in Laos!

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter who killed her; the police were responsible for her well being from the moment they took her into custody.

I did too!

Been there. Slammed a bottle of lao-lao (sticky rice whiskey) at Luang Prabang International before going through security; I’d bought it before I found out I couldn’t send it home through the mail. 100 proof. I slept real easy on the next two flights.

Alcohol sanitizes anyways.

Do you have like a symbol or something? What if we want to get Adultosaur tattoos?

Maybe that’s it. They both know he’s out of her league, so he’s finally confident this one will stick around.

Definitely one of the plot holes. Kind of surprised the “why didn’t they have the eagles fly them to Mordor” style trolls haven’t put that together yet; you’d think they’d be on top of it.

Well, then, I think you need to more clearly define “weird” for us, because it sounds a bit arbitrary.

This. I am a fucking machine for my employer when I’m on the clock, but I’m hourly, so when I punch out, I’m not thinking about them at all.

I mean, not really. It’s difficult to visualize, for sure, because we’re so used to experiencing our lives as having direction in one of four dimensions (mathematically it doesn’t look much different than width or length or height), but the concept isn’t particularly complicated.

If you see the divine as existing apart from time and see the universe as deterministic, it’s not that strange at all. Why would a God who created the universe not be able to see its whole timespan?

They eat some weird shit. You ever been to a soccer bar? Like, the ones that are trying real hard to be English? God damn, sometimes I just want to eat cheese curds while I watch sports and not some weird pot pie thing.

That is super cute!

China’s a more interesting and greyer case in that the demographic imbalance is so out of hand that it has the potential to cause real, large-scale societal problems. I’m still not super comfortable with outlawing sex-selective abortion in that situation, but I definitely understand why they’re doing it. That said,…

It doesn’t raise concerns that are remotely as troubling as telling the woman she can’t.

I’m a workplace only Jezzie and I’m here right nooooooow>

Night shifts are long and slow

Sex selective abortion causes problems for a society when it’s happening on a mass scale. In individual cases, as is the case in the US? I don’t see why the state needs to take an interest in that. I don’t think it’s a less valid reason.

Are we in Godwin’s Law territory now?

No one in this thread that I’ve seen has suggested mandatory abortions of any sort. This website is, schizoid as it is, ideologically pro-choice, emphasis on “choice”.

Secondly, while yeah, the idea of an undesirable trait is flexible enough to abuse a bit, I don’t think there’s a…

So why is prevention on other bases acceptable, but not prevention by means of abortion? Without a pro-lifer argument of some kind, it’s an artificial distinction.