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People throwing food in the halls and shrieking like demented baboons.
I often wonder how some people can so fervently deny our place as animals.
For me it's an uncanny valley situation. They feel less alive to me because they repeat a few ambient lines ad nauseam, NPCs in town often having repetitive conversations or making the same remarks to you every time you pass by. A robot like Spot (or any of the Big Dog-inspired robots) might be cute because it stumbles like a real animal yet isn't, but this dude's ScarJo bot is deeply unpleasant despite having more of the superficial characteristics of a living thing.
In other "interesting times" type news---
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-travel-ban-legal-analysis-20170206-story.html
Looks like the Supreme Court might have to decide on exactly what limits on presidential power there are, and how and when to apply them.
If they seriously curtail the president's powers, and return that power back to congress where it belongs, I will be a very happy man. Executive over-reach has been a SERIOUS problem for the past few decades.
Sad it took a raging IDIOT to force people to see it though.
QuoteCan you post a single thing, anything?
What the heck sort of source would be acceptable for this? Prince Harry approval ratings?
Also this gets considerably easier to prove if every child gets free lunches.
I have this Raven Man scholar who's been a resident for at least 6 months. He has been here before, in fact, as a regular visitor, and left as usual, to come back months later and apply for long-term residence. The first time around he was completely functional as a scholar, discussing many subjects in the library. Now all he's doing is being interested after watching performances.
Yup, there does seem to be some opportunistic definitions of fairness going around.
e.g. if the rich also eat the school lunch, then isn't that itself more fair than not letting them eat it, since they did pay taxes? Certainly if taxing the rich was unfair in the first place, then letting them have some of the food paid for with said taxes can't also be unfair. Letting everyone eat, regardless of wealth is fairer, no matter what. And it avoids the stigma of poverty, and avoiding the stigma of poverty eliminates one more barrier to social mobility.
Although in my current fort it's like "Do I have steel battle axes for everyone?"As long as you *never* allow steel battle axes in bins, you can just set a condition for "at most 2 steel battle axes". Any battle axe that someone holds is "unavailable. As soon as people start grabbing battle axes, you will start making them.
I've had a kobold be the guy representing a human civilization before. Kobolds hadn't actually taken over the civilization, though.
Could you communicate with it, or does [UTTERANCES] still apply to kobold diplomats?
And yet you remain unbanned by the toad so, good job, keep it up.
Wow. Vera Lynn is bringing out a new album for her 100th birthday, and performing live in London on the 18th of March.
She already had a record for being the oldest person ever to be number 1 of the UK hitlist in 2009.
What can I say? Respect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDzMUuuaUGff0&v=3Drw4aZhdT8
Anyone notice that Donald Trump is a lot like Barney the Dinosaur? In that if you use your imagination they both do amazing things... But in reality they are both stuffed?
Sorry bad joke
Trump is fat. Discuss.
I have it, on good authority, that he is, in fact, yuge, Sir. Yuge.
I think if he were rude to her she'd gracefully and majestically clobber him into submission with the hard end of a crown jewel (while holding him by the ear like a naughty toddler).>tfw if people actually acted like dwarves, the world would be a better place.
