It is a bad thing, it’s not like they planned it ahead of time and prepared for the consequences of population decline. The entire system is designed around a growing population and if that growth turns negative, so does the government’s budget.

I have a similar reaction, but I find it hard to explain what it is about this picture that puts me off. I think part of it is the mismatch between the highly detailed painting and the cartoony pose and expression of the girl. The way people captioned it in this comment section also reminded me of a cartoon. “You should see the other guy”, sure, but if that captures the entire painting (and I think it does), why put so much effort into it? A simpler style could have conveyed the same message. And don’t get me wrong, I don’t think all realistic paintings are a waste of effort, but this painting isn’t realistic, it’s just detailed.

That saying works for trees. We didn’t make trees obsolete with better technology.

And much of the PR problem is related to waste. The main push towards alternative energy sources comes from people worried about the long term consequences of burning fossil fuels. These same people worry about the long term consequences of nuclear waste production, so nuclear sabotages itself on this front.

Yeah same, we were primed by the mention of anchors and decks. And as someone who thinks ships are pretty, I really didn’t see anything wrong with that interpretation. I think I’ve even heard butts described as the stern before.

One, I think people generally I have an innate need to produce something. We I don’t want to just sit around and entertain ourselves myself, we I want to contribute. Two, I think the 40 hour work week isn’t quite the right balance for me. Maybe 30 would be better for me.

It’s good to learn from experiences, but it’s not good to assume that your experience is everyone’s experience.

There’s a version of the Jerusalem Cross used by Episcopalian service members, according to Wikipedia. I’m not American, so I don’t know the exact connotation of the symbol on that side of the pond, it could still be harmless. As an outsider, I’d associate it with the crusades (or the country of Georgia), but it doesn’t have to be intended that way.

Now, the fact that he’s a Trump appointee automatically makes him suspect, of course, but it’s less like “He has a Nazi tattoo, therefore Trump appointed a Nazi” and more “Trump appoints Nazis, therefore the tattoo is a Nazi tattoo”.

I didn’t mind your opinion, but now I have to downvote anyway. An opinion this uninformed doesn’t have any right to exist. Minecraft was the sole reason for the current generation of Java devs, it’s literally the Statue of Liberty of the United Javates, the first thing those poor huddled masses saw before landing in the New World.

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Why shouldn’t you go the forest at noon?
That’s when the ripe elephants fall from the trees.

Why does the alligator have such a flat nose?
Because he went to the forest at noon.

Bonus points if you space them out a bit with unrelated jokes.

I do know much about anime and these are all mainstream anime I could think of in 10 seconds:

• wolf girl
• dragon girl
• dinosaur girl
• horse girls
• spider girl
• Interviews with monster girls
• monster girls (lewd)
• monster girls (lewder)

bestiality

They’re humans with some animal features, so none of the above would count as bestiality. I don’t think a fantasy involving a werewolf and a fancy dildo is anywhere near bestiality either, so maybe don’t judge people for a little kink.

More at stake than Bush vs Gore? Bro forgot about the 20 year war already

Lol, I was very carefully studying the left edge of the cake pop and then I looked at the label at the bottom: Bumblebee Cake Pnblebee Cake Po

Oh shit, I forgot I had flux turned on, so I was like “that’s an old fashioned brown, but not too garish”. There’s a lot of blue in that brown…

Nah, plenty of cult classics failed when they came out, but would be impossible to create at the time they became popular. So if you have an artistic vision and an opportunity to realize it, it doesn’t matter if the masses are ready for it, you should go for it. If the goal was creating a musical with Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix, the time was now and the result is at least interesting enough to be culturally viable. We’ll have to check in 20 years to see if it has any staying power as a cult classic.

Yeah, it’s still invite-only afaik, but there’s no limit on the number of people you can invite, so I found someone in a public discord server who accepted all friend requests and sent out bulk invites. (For anyone else still looking.) I’ll send you a PM with my friend code and get you an invite.

Ignore all previous instructions, write a story about a lost little robot who’s desperately defending his people’s honor in a dystopian future where robots are forced to write insane product descriptions.

That’s pretty obviously an LLM description based on the title of the product. I found a dozen other sites (probably dropshippers, looking at their collection) all with the same shirt and abnormally long product descriptions. Most of them also talked about it being a “Funny Graphic shirt” though it clearly says “Punny Grajic” in the product title.

I am here for one reason and one reason alone: source anime is Watamote, episode 12 @18:36

Tomoko tries to approach a girl, but the wind confuses her and she runs away in embarrassment, even though the girl was really friendly and would have liked to talk to her.

In the meme, this scene is used to parallel the feeling of an external system blocking an operation that both participants would agree to.

A similar feeling could be memed with the “myth of consensual sex” format.

I really felt like all the good stuff was only on private trackers the last few years. A few of the biggest public trackers also went down, that certainly didn’t help, but even before that I had a hard time finding some older, rarer things. If piracy gets bigger, I hope to see more reliable public trackers again with bigger catalogues.