CuriousRefugee

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Might be too young to have strong political opinions, but living in Georgia, do you have any thoughts on Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Have those changed at all moving from Russia to Georgia?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Would your answer change if she was actually 18? It still seems crazy manipulative. In some countries, the age of consent is 16. Would this be okay if she's 16 in one of those countries? (Let's ignore countries below that age)

I struggle between two ideas: One, where I believe that at the age of majority, a person should get full rights (voting, emancipation, legal, consent, medical, etc.) and it seems wrong to let people vote but not make choices about their body (like drinking alcohol). And two, protecting the young from themselves, like by restricting labor, or setting smoking and drinking ages higher than a majority age,, because those damage still-developing brains way more.

We can fight about what the age of majority should be (16, 17, 18, 21?). I would definitely be okay if this tweet was about a 30-year-old, but I'm not okay with it being a 10-year-old. But whether it's 16 or 18 or 22 where it crosses the line is tough for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I miss NX. My company uses SolidWorks, and it's...okay, I guess? But I'm aggravated on a weekly basis because it doesn't do something that NX could. But cost is the issue. I think you can get like 5 SW licenses for the cost of a single NX one.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I dropped my Netflix subscription and just spend hours a day on OnlyHonk. Don't judge!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Having one of these calendars in every book was amazing! I remember marking up one of these timelines in the later novels (Yuuzhan Vong, maybe?), so I could make sure I'd read (or owned) every EU book available. And then new books came out, so I had to write them in. Great little addition, rather than just a list!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unless it was a GameCube disc, in which case backwards would have been correct, because up is down.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

I remember it for Pokemon, but also for those Zelda games that were a pair - Oracle of Ages/Seasons? But I don't think it let you do much, just continue a game save when you finished one of the two games.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What about Gojira?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The size is fine. My complaint is that they're not her classic polygon pointy boobs. They've taken away her glorious triangles!

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I feel like important context is that they were kids of the manager. That changes this from a bad corporate governance and exploitation of labor situation to something else: a bad parenting/child abuse, bad corporate governance and exploitation of labor situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

From left to right: Frylock, Muzzy, Eduardo, and the Gremlins.

('tis a joke, I only know Grimace)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Space is hard. You're strapping something inside a big tube with basically directed explosives at the bottom, hoping it survives the trip, then subjecting it to constant radiation, huge temperature swings, and other brutal environmental factors like micrometeoroids. Just because we've been sending satellites and people up to space for nearly 70 years doesn't mean it's gotten easier; we're just better at knowing what to expect so we can test for it. Failures in rockets or satellites or even manned spacecraft are going to happen as much as we work to prevent them.

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