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“Better the devil you know,” perhaps?

The missing bit is that daddy steals the other kids’ lunch money.

Yeah, that is the polar opposite of gluten free. Hail seitan! 🤘

Would you rather take on 30 otter-sized horses, or one horse-sized otter?

That was indeed what I was thinking of. I didn’t realize it was rejected. My bad, and thanks for the letting me know!

Not to mention that their orbits degrades over time so they have to be continually replenished. That comes at a huge cost which is highly subsidized by US tax payers.

The problem is systemic IMO. The whole VC model requires the enshitification cycle to work. Any technology that should reduce human labour and be a net positive for society instead always ends up in the hands of capitalists who’ll use it to extract maximal profit.

Like, on a fundamental level, automating people’s jobs is a good thing. The problem is all the benefits are going to a very small number of people.

Oh, it’s basically the same as Asshole (or Janitor, as my grandmother called it) but with teams, a definite goal, and a few more valid card combinations. One is obviously a derivative. Now I wonder which came first.

Edit: And to answer my own question:

It is a Westernized version of Chinese climbing card games[5] such as Zheng Shangyou, Tien Len in Vietnam and the Japanese Daifugō.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_(card_game)

Not that the average person could even do this without a certain baseline level of fitness.

And that’s a huge understatement. You need incredible core and upper body strength to do any of those holds. You need to have an elite level of fitness to compete at that level.

I’m happy to take it as a win that we can avoid a real war if it means some obnoxious pettiness.

This is also just a cutesy hand sign for “fox” in Japan, with zero alt-right symbolism. Foxes are a significant part of the mythology there, and there are all sorts of tales about leaving food for fox spirits to bring good fortune. There’s even a prominent vTuber who’s regularly depicted making the sign.

I wish these alt-right fuckwads would stop trying to wreck shit for the rest of the world.

“We take a zero tolerance [approach] to bladed articles in public, and Bray has fallen afoul of this."

Come on, this is ridiculous. Can I carry a chisel? A utility knife? An ice skate? A screwdriver? A lawnmower? A stirrup hoe? Those are all bladed articles. This is on the level of what this man did.

Give him a fine and move on.

Did you read the paper from my 2nd link? There seems to be a growing body of evidence that suggests that is indeed possible:

Similar to the increase in the prevalence of persistent median arteries of the forearms, the prevalence of other anatomical features such as spina bifida occulta (Henneberg & Henneberg 1999; Solomon et al., 2009; Lee et al., 2010), tarsal coalitions (Solomon et al., 2003) and fabella (Berthaume et al., 2019) has increased over the last 2–3 centuries. Evidence indicates that changes in the natural selection pressures acting on these specific anatomical features could have caused microevolutionary processes, leading to the observed increases in prevalence rates (Henneberg and Henneberg 1999; Solomon et al., 2009; Lee et al., 2010; Rühli and Henneberg, 2013; Berthaume et al., 2019).

Obviously actual research would have to be done to confirm or deny it in this case, and I probably should have stated my original thought a bit more skeptically.

I was reading over the paper and found the source of that particular usage:

Furthermore, in a study by Henneberg and George (1995; Am J Phys Anthropol 96, 329–334), has suggested that increasing prevalence of the median artery during the 20th century was a ‘possible secular trend’.

LOL. I kinda want to follow that citation for the full quote.

Edit: I found the original source that gives some further context:

The occurrence in historical times of changes in human body size and in the timing of events in postnatal development, such as, for instance, sexual maturation, is well known and documented. Such changes occurring from century to century or decade to decade are known as “secular trends.”

So I guess it’s actually domain specific jargon.

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Seriously. I’ve seen letter openers more threatening than that “sword”. Was it dumb? Sure. Does he deserve a slap the wrist, absolutely. But prison?? No way. What the actual fuck?

Except it does. Microevolutions can absolutely occur on time frames of under a hundred years.

https://news.sky.com/story/human-microevolution-sees-more-people-born-without-wisdom-teeth-and-an-extra-artery-12099689

https://www.sci.news/biology/median-artery-08939.html

I mean, it makes sense. With widespread adoption of vision correction, there’s no longer an evolutionary advantage to having naturally good vision.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say you’re not going to address your labour shortage by making things worse for labourers.

Haha, yeah, that’s why I said it’s my diplomatic answer, as it doesn’t utterly reject a capitalist framework.