“Internet Society officials said Ethos’ $1.1 billion bid was so huge, “we couldn’t just say no without considering,” the L.A. Times reported.”

You could, though! You are not legally obligated to grab as much money as you can!

The comments are shaping up nicely, though.

The RCMP - originally the North-West Mounted Police - were formed as a frontier force to do two things - suppress Indigenous resistance to western expansion, and keep the Americans from annexing the Canadian west. They were an expression of military force from the beginning.

An important detail to this story is that the elected band councils are a creation of the Indian Act that attempted to making Indigenous people in Canada wards of the state; their authority is limited to the lands of the reserve of the band, and their legitimacy as government is quite open to debate w/n Indigenous…

Sometimes I wonder if it would be better to be stupid, so I wouldn’t be so angry and scared all the time. Thankfully, usually something reminds me that being stupid still means being angry and scared all the time, just about stupid things.

A badger isn’t a dog, and there’s no reason to assume it would behave like a dog would when confronted with this behaviour; if the behaviour is used to lure dogs, it’s clearly adapted from a more general ability to display friendliness that’s common to canines.

Sometimes broad questions make for a very interesting collection of answers!

Consider the absurdity of being granted leniency on account of philanthropy that you undertook *with the proceeds of crime*.

This critique isn’t meaningful unless we also know that there are people entitled to funding now who are waiting for it because of mischief or incompetence. If anything it seems like a smoke-screen (ha!) to divert blame away from Australia’s political class...

The OP doesn’t mention Trump. 

but synthetic opioids are a *competitor* to heroin. It’s not much of a stretch for me to believe in U.S. government involvement in drug trafficking, but in this case the theory doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Wild Arms 3 is one of the best jrpgs ever; I enjoyed it, and replayed it, more than several on this list!... but taste is a personal thing. in particular it had the puzzle element down pat, with many short dungeons that seldom overstayed their welcome. 

I used to think I was terrified of flying, but it turned out to be mostly motion-sickness. I fly rarely, but when I do I take a couple of Gravol before getting on board, no problems. I mean, being semi-conscious also helps reduce anxiety, but it’s mostly the lack of nausea.

The best part of being a little dyslexic is scrolling down a web page and learning that someone’s coming out with a new Prince sex bot.

Antitrust official now in charge of encouraging the building of trusts. Seems very 2010s, doesn’t it.

Home ownership is declining as well, though, particularly in bigger cities. As generations like mine adapt, or are confined to, smaller living spaces, high-quality public amenities have a bigger draw. I don’t think this is a *counterargument* to what you’re saying, I think that there’s two forces that are pulling in…

They still apologize to us once a year, which is always a bit uncomfortable and embarrassing for those of us who never even played 1.0. But it’s also kind of endearingly earnest and culturally Japanese in the best way.

Flight of the Navigator was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and even then I was really impressed by the eerieness of the opening half.

... hey, is The Black Hole on disney+?

Wayne Barlowe’s art-child. Very nice.

Book Jack doesn’t die saving his family, though. And he’s clearly accountable for his actions; reread the snowcat-sabotage scene in particular, as well as the memories of why they’re out there in the first place. I can’t help but feel you didn’t read the book all that closely, or you were reading it with a judgement…