Huh, TIL.

The whale’s common name originated during the heyday of the commercial whaling industry, from the end of the 18th century through the 19th century. The head of the sperm whale contains an enormous fluid-filled organ (which whalers called the case). During whale harvests, this organ, now called the spermaceti organ, was discovered to contain a white liquid that whalers mistook for the sperm of the whale. The spermaceti organ is unique to sperm whales, although bottlenose whales possess a similar organ. It has a volume as large as 2,000 liters (530 gallons) and can extend through 40 percent of the whale’s length.

https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-the-sperm-whale-get-its-name

So it too will become a crab?

Sounds great!

That one sign language gorilla asked about sleep pictures.

When I crate my dog she will sometimes run away and hide. Her position is that she doesn’t want to go in the crate and my position is that I want her to go in the crate. Other times she agrees and just goes in the crate. This is an example of what an argument with a dog can look like.

If they had taught me about this in junior high then I would have 100% been interested in hard science. Instead they taught me that if I don’t follow diligent documentation requirements my teacher would try to eat an unwrapped bag of bread.

You right, but consider this. You can’t get plea deals without inflated charges. The pre-meditation could be that “he went into the house”. He had the game on. He didn’t NEED to be inside, he chose to go inside. If he was carrying a gun while he went inside AND anticipated an altercation, then you can make the argument, however poorly cobbled together, that he had thought this shit through.

“But, there’s no plea deal for a man who died by suicide!” You’re right. But it’s a nice way to slide some precedent through because who is going to defend this asshole? Nobody.

Now, the next time someone does something similar and lives, you got that sweet murder 1 baybeee! They went into somewhere they didn’t need to be, knowing that it would provoke an altercation, and they were carrying their firearm with intent to use it when the situation escalated (State of Oklahoma v. Cody Wayne Adams). Hell, this citation can be scraped by some language learning model and appear down the road to support this scenario when an overworked intern slaps together a brief for an attorney who is focused on numbers.

It doesn’t have to be a good argument. It just has to be AN argument.

Yeah, but allowing people to have guns is killing hella people for no other reason than “I like guns”. Nobody is resisting anything or keeping anyone safe or stopping the bad guy. It’s just raining bullets and people who are okay with it use the Constitution to allow it to continue. (The Constitution, as it turns out, is fucking bullshit.)

You take time to answer questions in class rather than force feeding standardized test questions down their throats. Kids don’t lose their curiosity. They just get tired of hearing some variation of, “I’ll answer that later.”

I will be sure to do it then. Guess we’re terrorists now.

VOLUNTEERS!? They’re using fucking volunteers!?

Jesus H. Christ.

Why not? China is developing while the US is sitting around with their thumb up their ass.

Well, if she gets out, I’m sure some standup conservative will gun her down. Being anti-pedophile and pro-gun is their thing. Right? … Right?

Gonna have to fight these shitheads Viet Cong style.

I’m prepared for my downvotes.

I have often joked that in the not-too-distant-future people will look back upon the early days of the internet like we look upon the 1950s view of smoking.

What do you mean kids shouldn’t do it? It’s fine. You know how it is, watch a kids cartoon, look at some memes, two girls 1 cup, email the fam, those two Mexican dudes who had their heads cut off with a chainsaw, research Ghana for a school project, sneak in some porn after the parents go to bed, and cap it off with some chat room conversations about Picard’s superiority to Kirk while some kid across the country goes on about shooting his brains out because mom and dad either don’t love him enough or love him too much. Maybe download some credit card spoofers and Diablo hacks for online play if you aren’t quite ready for bed.

The early internet, and even the internet now, is a fucking wild concept. Take everything that people think, not just what we know, but what we fucking think about while we are taking a shit, and make it available for anyone look at without guidance or context. We can even watch police shootings in real time and pretend to be detectives during terrorist events, consequences to real people be damned.

Should parents know better? Sure. Is the internet an effective babysitter while they grind out a living? You bet.

If we restrict this dumpster fire behind age-verification and eliminate anonymity through tagged identification, the effect on privacy and anonymous online activism will be severe. However, CinnamonRingCumGlaze86 will be significantly less able to use their 6th grade reading level to convince people that modern medicine is bad because Pre-Historical Witches didn’t have AIDS bro. #flatearth #zoroastrianismwasasteptoofar #onceagaintherealproblemiscapitalismandwearelookingatthewrongthingbecauseofmanufactured-outrageandobfuscationcreatedbytheoligarchy #worldofwarcraftclassic

Americans should worry less about what is or isn’t on China’s list and focus on addressing their own.