The constitutional protection to free speech (and free press) means that the government cannot prevent you from speaking or publishing (at your own cost) most types of speech, most notably political speech, nor punish you for it. This is codified in the 1st Amendment, which prevents the government from “muzzling” you,…

Did you read about Jones’ custody trial? His lawyer had to admit in court that Jones was a “performance artist”, so his show couldn’t be used as evidence that he’s a psychopath. They know they aren’t a legitimate news org, but they know there is a demographic of morons willing to pay them money for claiming they are.

These people really love their “free speech” catch-all. You’d think they’d learn what it actually means one of these days.

And they’re free to do that. Youtube, however, as a private company, has no obligation to provide the means for them to do it. It’s their house, they set the rules, if you don’t like it you can host your shit somewhere else.

That sounds like an awful life. :-/

I was so pissed to learn my thyroid was normal. It seemed like the obvious solution — I tend to be depressed, low-energy, and gain weight. But no, several attempts to measure my thyroid numbers (like all of them, not just the one most people check) have said it’s normal.

I eat basically meat. Like...I haven’t had a side dish outside a restaurant in forever.

Hinduism is the world’s third largest religion. It has about 1.15 billion of followers. 15-16% percent of the world’s population is Hindu. It has political and social power all over southern Asia. There is no definition of dominant where Hinduism doesn’t qualify.

Yes, because religious classifications (wafer vs. flesh, meat vs. fish) often differ from scientific ones. I fail to see how that excuses Catholics but not Hindus.

But they do. Just like some eat eggs. Just like some drink milk. I’m not a vegetarian, so I don’t understand it. They call themselves pesco-vegetarians. I had a good friend who was a lacto-ovo-vegetarian, meaning she could eat eggs and dairy. I dunno. People are weird.

Fish are traditionally harvested rather than herded or hunted and have a very different appearance, flavor, and nutritional profile from meat, so most traditional societies categorize them differently. Really, it’s only with modern vegetarians focusing on their ethical arguments that “meat” came to be operationalized…

Do we even know when, in the MCU, the first Black Panther emerged and ended the “warring states” period of Wakanda’s history?

Thank you for pointing this out.

That’s right. Catholics, for example, don’t eat meat on Ash Wednesday or on Fridays during Lent, but fish is acceptable.

Vegetarians can eat fish, but more importantly, they can catch it without consuming it.

Yeah, Charles is showing his ass here. None of this is cultural appropriation in the slightest.

Speaking as an actual Hindu, I thought the inclusion of Hanuman was rad. I also thought I was cool that the Jabari were vegetarians, since Hanuman is vegetarian.

> It is, in the most literal sense of the phrase, cultural appropriation

I hate the birthday thing. In a perfect world, everyone would just get their birthday off and there would be no damn cake at work.

HACKERS!