I’m not sure why you think financial profits changes the equation at all.

You are my favorite person for revealing that there is a Dead Like Me movie.

Maybe a more concrete example would help you.

Cultural appropriation is when a dominant group takes something (clothing, hairstyle, food, spiritual practice, etc) from a non-dominant group, removes the context, and uses it for their own purposes. There is often also an effort to prevent the non-dominant group from accessing the same cultural thing, whether by…

Wait. Is “send a photograph of your eyes” part of the call or is that just how Yoko signs off on things?

It’s not so much that German has a word (I assume you meant “word” instead of “weird”) for everything but rather that German has a built-in mechanism for making compound words as needed so you can make up “the German word” for any specific thing.

Gabriel told her she will be impregnated. That whole passage (Luke 1:26-38) is basically an angel saying “you’re gonna get pregnant from magic because god said so” and Mary responding “well OK then”. There’s really no other way she could have responded. Also, keep in mind that this is a third party’s decades-later…

At the risk of getting into a theological argument, two things should be noted.

Sort of. I had a neighbor kid growing up—not a friend of myself or my brother—who would barge into my parents’ house and then act more or less like she lived there. She didn’t prepare meals (because she was a child) but she would eat ready-made things out of the pantry and fridge.

I would be a lot more on this kid’s side if she hadn’t been kind of a jerk to the rope jumpers or the basketball players.

It’s not cuteness, it’s the cuteness relative to the tastiness. So if cows have cuteness c but tastiness t=2c then t>c, cows are food, the equation holds. There’s also the fact that c values are subjective and will therefore vary from person to person.

It’s not fallacious it’s incomplete. The equations hold true for positive values of c (things that are, at least somewhat, cute). Termites have a zero or negative c value. We need more equations to handle the termite case.

Why are people against sterile males? Aside from cost (I imagine genetically engineering a sufficient number of mosquitoes is expensive) I don’t really see the downside.

I like the way you think.

I will trade our tomato festival for your garlic festival.

Black people do not have a magic power to devalue property around them. Redlining marked neighborhoods with large minority populations undesirable for investment. This made banks and lenders less likely to lend money in those areas, whether to buy a house or to start a business. Without this capital investment, these…

You don’t appear to be responding to what I actually posted (maybe you meant to respond to someone else?) but let’s discuss this anyway.

As near as I can tell the SPLC doesn’t publish their reasons for listing specific groups which is annoying but makes some sense given that they list nearly 1,000 groups and most groups are pretty self-evidently hateful. I actually only found the flag store information in an article about white nationalist groups…

My boss doesn’t like rice. Any rice. It’s a shame because I really liked this job too...

I’m pretty sure the Indian government still has a case for ownership without a living blood relative of the last Sikh Maharajah. Yes, determining a “final resting place” for the stone would be difficult but I think it’s a decision the people of India are capable of making. There really doesn’t seem to be a legitimate…