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Yeah, m'mostly just curious where the message was coming from... know the guy in question gets most of his exposure to stuff of that nature via news, but dunno which one this bit is coming out of. Fellow was dead certain having to cover preexisting conditions has been bankrupting insurance companies left, right, and center, with only three left nation wide. How he ended up at that conclusion I've got zero clue.

Also, @Frumple, which three companies are they saying aren't shuttered?

Didn't really say. Mentioned blue cross blue shield, but didn't manage to get the other two out before changing subjects.

I was pretty happy with it, yeah

That doesn't change the fact that chopping somebody up is simply wrong.

Standing and watching while someone dies is pretty much as bad, though, and would be the equivalent action to just letting nature take its course. And hell, maybe it is the less immoral act, but even if it is the scale is massively different. Doesn't mean you should stand aside as someone's chopping people up, but if you're trying to be even remotely consistent you should be a lot louder about the bigger problem (especially considering it's one that's significantly less of an ethical question, heh.).

You'd also note well a lot of vegetarians abstain from dairy products, heh. Which would be a closer equivalent, imo. Milk and beef is just a titch more akin to each other than wheat and beef. It's not so much a matter of being a component as being a similar sort of thing, and the component parts in the case of a fertilized egg share a hell of a lot more with it than the egg shares with a developed fetus. If you're going to lump the egg in with the fetus, you should probably be lumping the egg's components in there, too.

... also, we could totally get parthenogenesis working if we'd just get off our asses and do it. That never is pretty conditional to the present, heh.

There's a slight difference between a deliberate abortion, and biology just spontaneously deciding that no this isn't going to happen, or gametes dying off in the testes because the fella isn't having sex literally all the time. If the former is murder, the latter is more akin to dying of disease, or in an accident, or of old age. Nobody is really at fault.

The gametes dying off in particular is more akin to someone in front of you starving to death -- a preventable event. You don't even have to be constantly having sex, there, just preserving the material. There's a substantial amount of fault lying in the hands of people doing nothing while others die, particularly when they have a relatively straightforward way of helping. Watching as someone starves in front of you when you have food isn't exactly a blame free action.

And yeah, the extremis in the other direction is completely ridiculous, too.

... anyone know if any of the current humble mobile bundle games are anything of note?

Update on this, I said to-hell-with-it and nabbed it up. Couple I've messed with so far are fairly decent! Apparently the bundle's a company bundle, and the company in question (Kemco? Something like that) does what amounts to SNES era (J/S)RPGs, and does them relatively competently.

Will say, one of them (legend of ix-something-or-other) has a bit of game mechanic I didn't even realize I needed in my life -- the game has summon spells, of which the summoner can use to call up multiple minions, and the summons themselves grant XP/class points/etc. to the summoner, on top of having their own suite of skills and what seems to be incredibly high targeting priority for the enemy AI. It is precisely as broken as it sounds, and I'm kinda' loving it.

So the only people who need to worry about it are people who like burnt meat? That's almost laughable.

... or not. Depends on how burnt burnt is. Light char or near-char is pretty common in cooking, from what I've seen. Done right it's part of some freaking tasty stuff, though you sometimes don't eat the charred bits.

... today I learned that there are 1,225 distinct coins in super mario bros. That. That seems so very cruel.

It's about a fairly amusing and surprisingly unlewd joke owlga posted/renamed the thread about. Involves a critter from undertale, some game I'll never play.

I... maybe wouldn't suggest googling it. There's actually a not unnoticeable amount of straight up porn involving that character, already.

also ninja'd but whatever