> Add on the movies struggling to justify their own existence beyond being a brand extension..

One word: lawyers.

Would this fall under the Fourth Amendment Taking’s Clause?

> people who insist that others make it more convenient [..] asking for special treatment. If they’re too lazy to lift the seat..

EXACTLY what I thought.. “What are we talking about - CSI? The latest ‘crime-ridden-America’ statistic?”  And yes, the colloquialism for the number of sex partners is disturbing..

And it gives them a free wash (maybe)..  But then, you probably have bigger things to worry about!

Well, at least it’s in the best interest of the companies to get them off the streets too - I hope. Maybe not - how much money do the scooter companies pull in at $1+ a ride (multiple times a day?), against whatever the wholesale cost of the scooter is?

My impression watching the video was that boob physics looked a bit “off” - especially the right side (of the character, not the image). It looked like the breast was implemented as a horizontal plane rather than a true 3 dimensional object - as if the horizontal elasticity of a (approximately) spherical or…

But with allergies, *parents and children* can find out whether the child has an allergy or not beforehand. Truly, do we really thing that kids (and parents) are too stupid to not know that if they have a reaction, they shouldn’t use it? True, an allergy could “unexpectedly develop” - but the same could be said for…

The Hardy paper was published in 1948. So this was done *after* World War 2? (How long did it take before we discovered what Mengele had been up to?) In any case, even if the “dol scale” was accurate (which I highly doubt it could be), how would you possibly use such a scale?