whu why would you want any of that superfluous nonsense

While I am sympathetic to what you’re saying, remember that on the Facebooks and Twitters of the right, they’re making the same IQ comments about voters on the left. Each side thinks the other is really dumb.

You did not spend 25+ hours of game time to get that playable.

I don’t understand how it’s any weirder than a belief in God in general. Once you’ve accepted that, everything else is sprinkles on the bizarro sundae.

At my (government-related) office, the head of IT was doing a security audit and found that there was a frequent outside connection to AWS, over which 6 Tb had been copied over the previous few months. Naturally there were worries about data theft by a foreign government.

And a big reason for that is a judicial system that locks up black men at a substantially higher rate than white men.

Didn’t realize “standing for he national anthem” is now “football”

AKA IOC pocket lining?

Uh, there were the same worries in 1998 and especially during the 2002 World Cup and there were few issues. Tokyo and Osaka get piles of tourists as it is, now. This isn’t 1956.

I’m a huge C&H fan, I think it’s the best ever for sure, but to think Bloom County is the best is... Not an incorrect opinion. I’ll take it. Disagree, but take it.

McDonalds is paying for this. In Ingress, a lot of businesses paid in Japan to be portals - Lawsons, MUFG banks, Softbank shops.

Yeah, I played Ingress pretty intensely for a while, and the user base is large and passionate in Japan. Near my station (and it was not a major station) you would frequently see quite a few people at night obviously playing. Met some new friends that way, too, just on the street.

I was talking to one of my childhood friends the other day about some of these high profile rape cases. We both drank plenty, way too much, plenty to be way out of control when we were younger. Somehow even when being young, drunk, and stupid we managed to never rape anyone, never to take advantage of someone else’s…

Jesus, that sounds like some Eastern Bloc, 1980s shit. People pay extra to be able to live in an old spy novel?

I’ve had just a few balls, one game I got several due to there being a constant cold drizzle and only two of us in our section. We took turns grabbing fouls.

I never flew much alone when I was a kid, but when I was 12 or 13 a school group of us flew to DC. Me and my friend sat next to a man who proceeded to get drunk and look through rather explicit pornography mags the rest of the flight. Greasy awkward teen Smorkula at the time thought it was fucked up, even, adult…

“Never touch anyone without their consent” should be basic human knowledge, right?

Obviously he is kissing a sleeping girl because he knows it’s inappropriate, but sleeping girl means he can probably get away with it.

I’ve seen some airlines that are quite vigilant about watching everything going on the seats - for a variety of reasons, not just related to unaccompanied minors. OTOH last time I flew next to an unaccompanied minor the attendants never did anything special to check on the boy.

ACADEMIC source, eh? What a weaselly way to ask for documentation. Any link I can provide you is going to be rejected because it’s “not academic”.