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Is it hallucinogenic at all?

They're more in the direction of arsenic than poppyseed. You may hallucinate but it probably wouldn't exactly be because of the plant, more how it was trying to kill you :V

Taco Bell's free wifi blocks the webcomic TwoKinds. Whatever, it has sexual content, I can understand why they'd block it even though it's kinda weird Taco Bell as an entity even knows about it.

Then I discovered that almost every webcomic I can think of is blocked. SMBC, VGCats, Awkward Zombie, Perry Bible Fellowship, Pandyland and Prequel are all blocked. Do webcomics have a bad reputation or something?

Well yes, they kinda' do. Most of those you just mentioned has content (violence, sexy stuff, etc.) that would be blocked in your average school or library, and they're very much tame and/or tip of the iceburg so far as webcomics go. The things are pretty close to the fanfiction of the drawn mediums, with precisely the amount of porn and borderline porn that entails (Lots. Lots and lots.).

It's not uncommon for commercial folks to not take much in the way of chances when it comes to open wifi networks, particularly if they're catering to a younger or family oriented crowd (and fast food joints generally are)... though as noted above, the bandwidth aspect could definitely be a larger decider, heh. If you're really curious, you could probably call and ask, or float an email or whatev' to the company itself. It's almost surprising how often you can get odd questions like that answered if you bother asking.

Nah, lower sites and slower research usually has a fairly depressive effect on speed. Less resources, harder to expand (because you don't have the right spells or units earlier, etc.), less means to break particular holdouts or tip a stalemate one way or another, all that sort of stuff. Less mobility stuff, too. You hit critical mass or breakpoints in capability further down the line, spend more time shuttling things around, so on and so forth.

Conceptually not having summoning spam could speed things up, but it... usually doesn't quite work that way, least as far as I've noticed from hearing folks talk about those kinds of games.

That said, if summoning masses are you primary concern, that would be fairly trivial to mod so they're more expensive or otherwise limited. Not something you could just tweak in the options, but particularly if you were setting it up for a slate of specific nations it wouldn't really take all that much effort. Double/triple/quadruple costs, want to say you could tweak things so there's a hard cap on specific spells (though also pretty sure that would take a fair bit more effort), stuff like that. Feeling really frisky you can do some neat stuff with items or units, remove summoning spells entirely (or limited to stuff like the elemental royalty) and have that aspect of the game entirely limited to equipment and the occasional indie or national.

Philosophers are an authority on exactly one thing, which is their own beliefs.  Any other significance they have comes from the influence they've had, but you haven't said specifically what that influence is here.

Oi. Rhetoric and logic both easily go beyond a philosopher's own beliefs, and are exactly two of the things members of the field can be authorities in. Some other stuff too that I'm too tired and forgetful to dredge up, but whatever.

... I mostly don't care about all the rest of the stuff that followed, at this point, and as near as I can recall Mill wasn't particularly notably skilled in either of those two,* but that one needed clarifying. Contrary to some folks beliefs, philosophy involves more than one practical skill and body of actual expertise.

*Yes, I know the name of the book and about the related junk, no, it doesn't really count -- he knew the stuff well enough but, outside a fairly narrow aspect of a singular field that was probably more contributive (at best) than authoritative, that was about it, and most of his shtick was only tentatively related to the stuff.

Ah, yeah. For that, just donate to a food bank or shove the excess off on neighbors or something. Feed chickens, fertilize garden, whatever.

E: Or overeat like a red blooded american! That works, too, if by works I mean shaves off future grocery bills by killing you younger :V

Yeah, some folks definitely play like that. I don't think terribly many, since by and large it slows the (already a significant length, with most multiplayer setups) game down by a fairly significant margin, but some people do it. Probably could poke around the usual places elsewhere online and see if anyone's trying to organize for a game like that.

Nah, near as I could tell this bill actually like... fixed that, or at least didn't mess much up on that specific front. Priority is (now?) given to same/similar religious beliefs but that's about it, just priority. If no appropriate family is available, the search for a foster or whatever would continue down the metaphorical list.

Steal from christian families part seems to be about the gender identity stuff being brought in, from what idle perusal of news article titles/summaries could parse. Apparently someone or another in canada is convinced the government is going to use that angle to take children away from families teaching traditional gender roles. Doesn't seem to be whole of the entire kerfluffle by any means, but that specific part of it seems to be something roughly along those lines.

Yeah, pretty much. Restaurants like tgif were appealing back when I didn't know how to cook, or shop, or before I was cognizant of how massively bloody inflated their services cost compared to doing it yourself. Food's usually pretty alright, but for 15-20 bucks a plate I can do a whole hell of a lot better than pretty alright, or a whole hell of a lot more of pretty alright, and not have to spend gas money or deal with traffic or whatever. Things have a niche when you're meeting with someone you wouldn't let into your home or vice versa, but other than that... nah. They can enjoy dying off or they can get with the times somehow or another.

Can't think of anything intentionally built for that kind of half-way sit down that's not something like a bar, ferex. Give it another 5-10 years and you might be seeing a potential market. Rent a booth for cheap for an inside picnic? Something like that.