They also tend to get hit with more serious penalties than a lot of sophisticated tax cheats because while sophisticated tax cheats* create a big mess for the IRS the tax protesters are infamous for filing thousands of gibberish legal claims that still have to be responded to, openly taking up days or court time, and…

The overlap would be complete, except there are some tax protesters out there that have made up different enough theories (not very different though) that they're not quite sovereign citizens.

It's clear already that everyone is going to get increasingly excited and then it's going to turn out that it was ketchup with soy sauce in it, right?

They need to cut it out with the bit events stuff and go back to the solid, proven strategies of dozens of collectors editions with embossed metallic covers for each issue.

"Look," says executive, "we've tried to increase the diversity involved and all that has happened since that, and our decision to make everything be about a series of terribly plotted "big story!" books that destroy things people liked and are awful, our sales have been going downhill! Why, at this point our female…

Try pick up a piece of parmesan, saying "vomit vomit vomit" or imagining throwing up, and then smelling it.

With the fermented stuff at least I'm guessing there were transitional periods where it got more and more smelly/etc. over time.

"From small islands" sort of obscures the fact that it was more than a few small islands, and that those islands were rookeries not isolated natural habitats. They covered the north Atlantic from New England to Spain . The "small island species" thing doesn't count when it's a lot of them and there are a whole bunch…

Passenger pigeons weren't: there were so many of them at one point that it would take days for migratory flocks to pass over cities. Great Auks pretty much covered the north Atlantic, even if they had their rookeries in pretty specific places. And the Bubal Hartebeest's habitat covered most of Northern Africa.

This can depend a lot on the snake, though. Rattlesnakes warn you, and a lot of vipers don't really care enough to bite someone unless they're really being antagonized. But there are also snakes that will absolutely kill you dead before you even suspect they might be there*. It's not hard to tell if you're in an…

Eliminating natural habitats, especially for animals human beings really don't want to be around, is the big killer but we've definitely eaten more than a few species into extinction. Great Auks, Dodos, Sea Cows, Passenger Pigeons, an awful lot of giant tortoises (from what I can tell there were more species on the…

I don't think it's satirizing things in the way you're assuming it is. Nothing in the movie is particularly critical of mindless violence as a thing (though it is very critical of a lot of action movie tropes.)

I'm just saying. There's no reason to go running after him.

Elliot: Okay, is he allowed to do that?
Ess: Kings do.. whatever.
Margot: Fine he bitched out. It's over.
Ess: It's over when one ruler is dead. Another favorite show of mine.. into the woods.
Elliot: Well when he's done jogging he knows where we are. Aide! Bring me the Royal Folding Chair!
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Elliot: .. do any of you…

Marines are soldiers that take long boat rides, obviously. The difference is massive.

Heck - "intelligent" isn't even something we have a clear definition of beyond "sort of acts like human beings do". Most of what we take to be learning how things work/how to do things is really just a matter of learning basic human conventions - things that seem natural to us.

I'm not convinced of this - once you leave the major population areas there are noticeable accents, but as long as you're in cities you're going to find a pretty narrow range of American-metropolitan accents. There's still variation, but you'd need to listen to more than a few people and/or get lucky to be able to…

See, now I really want to see Colleen be the one going to that challenge so they could have the Husband of Nine Spiders vamping around.

Hey a lot of those old bald guys work out pretty seriously you know? I mean, they've got something going on there.

Or in other words he treats Buddhism basically the same way a pretty wealthy/privileged white guy who took a year off between college and high school to go backpacking in India and got, like, way into Eastern philosophy you know would. Which, I guess, is apparently what the show thinks "watching your parents die in…