Absolutely. It might be the janitorial work of “the academy” but that work is important.

I’m actually not sure if the problem right now is funding that work or the unfortunate fact that there’s rarely any accolades for it. And “publish or perish” is still too true.

Bodily autonomy doesn’t allow parents to make choices for children. It does allow people to make choices for themselves. Nice try at shifting those goalposts, tho.

I can’t agree. Bodily autonomy isn’t a compromise position for me, and I think “faith” is a vice, not a virtue.

“Dead Like Me” deserved better.

What is “mortal risk”? You can die due to driving to the Yarn Barn. Do you have zero compassion for knitters and crochet-ists?

Your feeling resonates with me, but I’m not sure it’s a defensible moral stance.

Make sure and get your colonoscopy this year.

It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.

Link to how to?

I kinda buy the “forced medication” argument, but rather than removing the municipal water requirement, I think the municipality should provide water filters for those that want to opt-out.

I think the evidence is fairly clear that, in this case, opt-in should be the default as it protects VASTLY more than it harms.

^ This ^ is where I learned the word “aglet” and (looked up) what they were. First time I found them in Terraria, I thought surely it was a typo for “anklet” or something, since that was back in the beta days.

When you lose a system. It responds to ping; all services are up, but you can’t find the damn thing.

So, not a number so much as a limit to your organizational skill+effort.

The announcement from MS and the linked article both also mention this, though they recommend the real analogue hole: a separate camera pointed at the screen.

I can’t Bernie’s not in office for his 3rd term. /s

Steam has some good options. And, if you can play it on the Steamdeck, it will probably work on a Linux desktop.

But, if you have specific gaming needs, please check those first. Some games just don’t work, and I wouldn’t want your to trade OSes (which all have their own frustrations) and then find yourself unable to game.

Preferably find someone local that already uses Linux and is willing to help you out some. LUGs (Linux User Groups) used to be a thing; maybe there’s one near you. A lot of Linux users like gaming these days, though plenty of them still dual-boot.

Nihilistic optimism or bust.

I’m still working on the optimism.

“there can be only one” is a common saying from the Highlander series of movies and TV shows, which refers to an in-universe event where “immortals” (they can be killed by decapitation) feel compelled to “the gathering” and slay each other until the last one receives “the gift”.

The series is named “Highlander” because the protagonist in the first movie, Connor MacLeod, is an immortal from the highlands of Scotland and often called “the highlander” by immortals, since he may be living under a different name (because even in fiction paperwork is a bitch).

Outside of the series, “highlander” variants of various games exist which impose a limit of a single instance of a card/token/spell/action where the standard rules have a higher limit or no limit.

Polydactyly is not uncommon in feral cats, but I have no information about the provenience of the photo.

I am not AI spam. I am sometimes stupid.

As part of getting an FFL, you effectively waive that right; the ATFE can drop by the address on the license, unscheduled, for inspection, and if you don’t let them in, your FFL we be immediately rescinded, and nearly any judge will approve a search warrant for that location over the phone in minutes.

We could do the same for individual owners, just like dealers, and there would be supporting precedent. (But, it would certainly be subject to judicial (including SCOTUS) review.)

If informed, consenting patients could receive the medications they want without gatekeepers, I might be convinced this is a good thing. I certainly don’t think surgeons should be forced to perform acts they feel are immoral.

But, we’ve set up a system of gatekeepers (yes, for safety) and their collective morality should not prevent me from medicating myself. Until we figure out a (public and patient) safety system for medication that doesn’t have gatekeepers AND that system is implemented, doctors should not be able to refuse someone medication without a medical justification.

I also feel that most doctors operate very close to a “public accommodation”, so should be affected by the same non-discrimination laws that affect restaurants (even fancy ones where you have to book months in advance). That might not be every doctor, but it should cover enough. In that case treatments, including surgeries, can be avoided on moral grounds, but not denied based on the patient’s protected class(es).

I haven’t seen that used as a motto by a consistent group that might also have a longer explainer.

But, presumably, it would force all rental agreements to be replaced with mortgages. Presumably, hotel/motels could still provide long-term non-mortgage housing, but they have a good amount of regulation and generally provide services currently landlords do not.

Alternatively, it might be non-literal motto that doesn’t want to abolish landlords, but rather to more severely regulate them.

A living wage in #Arkansas, one of the cheapest/poorest states is between $22 and $23 per hour.

Democrats won’t, but they could campaign on 30$/hr (25$/hr tipped), and then be “reasonable” and “negotiate” down to passing a living federal wage based on the cheapest/poorest state, adjusted each year on labor day to ensure it is a living wage. (It would still exceed 15$/hr.)