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The lesbians one is interesting, in light of the many nations where anti-homosexual laws are specifically directed at men only. I previously considered this to be a blind spot due to the common sentiment that sex requires sticking a penis somewhere...

A lot of this is tied to the old-school traditional view that semen contains some sort of life energy. Thus homosexuality among males is worse than among women because with men you have a wasting of that life energy that isn't present in lesbianism.

I guess Trump is just being proactive, even if it's an extreme extension of the 'forever in election year mode' syndrome that plagues Congress at times.

That said, I wonder who's paying for it since it was paid by the campaign funding during the campaigns, which doesn't exist at this point in time.

I heard that that was one of the main reasons that Trump had declared his continued campaign so early; i.e. that people were still donating significant amounts of money to his campaign and if he let it's existence lapse then he would have to *gasp* give it back!

Bundlestars has Shadow of Mordor and all of the expansion packs for $5. They've also currently got Civ VI deluxe edition on sale for -30% (or the normal one for -25% off) right now as well.

Half-asleep right now, but I vaguely remember reading that in medieval times (I think?) it was the norm to actually sleep in two shifts, with a period of chillaxed wakefulness in between. Not sure how true that actually was, not even entirely sure where I read it.

This is kind of misleading because to many people it implies a break around like midnight or something similar. In reality the evidence points much more towards a system like what is currently present in Spain's siestas; a couple hour nap around noon, followed by having slightly less sleep during the night.

Star Wars is about Death Star.

What, the matching "Star"s in their names didn't tip you off to that fact?

So finally got around to seeing this yesterday, and I gotta say that I really enjoyed it. It wasn't perfect, obviously (no movie is), but I felt they did a really good job. CGI tarquin was only slightly noticeable because I saw it in 3D (and thus the 3D CGI blended a bit better I think), and personally I liked the fact that Vader seemed a little bit more human while he was addressing people on his own side while still maintaining the menace as he butchered his way through the spaceship (I mean the "evil overlord" shtick is cool and all, but you actually should have a functional organization beneath you).

Honestly the best part of it for me was all the little details though. The stormtroopers talking about equipment, the guy on the field requesting a description of what the "master switch" looked like, being able to see the air distortion from the jets on the spacecraft even when far away and so forth. Plus some of the trope turnarounds, having the rousing speech fail, having them end as comrades rather than with a love interest kiss, definitely was lots of fun to be had.

Quote from: Neonivek on December 16, 2016, 03:03:26 pm

Like stupid Click Highschools THAT DON'T EXIST TV!

Took me a bit to figure out you meant clique. They're not common in my experience either, but the next town over from where I grew up was sort of known as being a very hollywood-stereotype school like that, with nerdy nerds and jocky jocks and etc.

I mean you can still see them in reduced form even in less stereotypical schools. My highschool was the only highschool for 3 hours around, and while they weren't super prominent you still had the group of theater kids, the group of band kids, the advanced computer lab group, the football players, the cheerleader group, the group of foreign exchange students, and so forth. Nowhere near as cut and dry as hollywood likes to make them, but the groups definitely existed and had some amount of separation between them.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/08/504547291/99-million-year-old-baby-dinosaurs-tail-encased-in-amber-surfaces-in-myanmar

Sadly scientific review has shown that you can't actually extract DNA from ancient amber like that (previous results saying you could were basically all contamination cases) so no Jurassic park for us.

On the other hand it does let us put a really nice set of feathers and colors on some potential dinosaur species!