Say what you will about Eat ‘n Park, but the Smiley cookies were my childhood (though the mascot is creepy af)

Hmm maybe it’s a shounen trope now that I think about it, but over the years I’ve seen it in: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood; Tiger & Bunny, Beelzebub, and Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (nameless character). These are just off the top of my head though.

Honestly I wonder about that. It’s nice that there’s more pressure to be held accountable for drug-related offences, but did she deserve to have her accomplishments erased and her career and reputation ruined? I’m not sure whether this overreaction is better than the selective leniency in American enforcement of drug…

I know nothing about Japanese culture and society but from the Japanese media that I do consume I expected as much. Basically representation seems limited to a quirky effeminate side character whose schtick is hanging with girls and propositioning the normal-acting straight men, who either respond with comic violence…

I thought the National Academies of Sciences/Engineering/Medicine were the official advisory group for the government?

Finally! Time to make my college degree useful! *ahem* It’s sort of a mystery as to why our relatively hairless bodies have pubic hair, but explanations range from preventing chafing during regular movement/sex, temperature regulation, and pheromone retention (I love me some crotch pheromones).

I have questions about this video and I’m not sure it would be polite for me to ask them.

Was it that documentary by Frontline for PBS? Because after watching that I just wanted to lie down and not do anything for the rest of the day (I mean I always want to but that time more than usual) :(

I’m going to be that person and point out that we care more about how a suicide bomber looks like one of our Western celebrities than the fact that he blew up a hospital.

Yeah is Kiona trying to test us or something?

What did people think of the first Garo animated series? I watched it and read the reviews, everyone seems to be in love with it but I just found it so meh for some reason.

I keep giant silk moths as a hobby. They’re handsized and quite showy, so they occasionally draw attention when I allow distant passersby to watch me release them. But I’d be lying if I said I don’t amuse myself by startling people when I toss what looks like a dead leaf in the air and it transforms into a furry…

I thought about that too, though I personally marked that down as a moral argument. But then, ideas of what is good/bad/worst do inform policy, and you’re the lawyer anyway. :)

Figures. :/

(Possibly stupid question) Just curious, what are political reasons for opposing the death penalty? I’ve always thought of keeping/abolishing the death penalty as being primarily rooted in moral arguments, is all.

This is like what the Romans of the late Republic did, putting the balding heads of their politicians on statues with fit, athletic male bodies. Except this isn’t historically significant art, it’s just gross.

For those who are interested, Frontline made an excellent documentary not too long ago on the relatively recent transformation and rise in power of the NRA. It’s soul-crushing.

I have to say, I don’t know how the mirid ID works for the big green bugs. Those are definitely pentatomids, based on shape and size. Karl’s ID is based on Sarona, a mirid genusthat I understand is endemic to the Hawaiian islands, which either way doesn’t much resemble those big green bugs.

I appreciate your knowledge of Latin. I'm working on a project that requires me to understand the nuances of profanity and vocabulary in Latin and this reminded me that I need to be doing work now.

This guy is amazing at explaining what he's doing, while also actually doing it. Great communication skills here!