That’s the usual take, and we certainly shouldn’t have removed so much of those forests to begin with. The scale of carbon removal that will do is not enough to really solve much, after all we’re quickly burning ancient plant-sourced hydrocarbons made from thousands or more years of collection, so one forest isn’t going to balance that equation. And planting trees is more complex than many think, for it to survive and thrive it has to be diverse and not a single species. We should reforest, but for the purpose of recovering what we destroyed in biodiversity, not for any carbon capture effect.

It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

If we stop doing the cat thing, the internet is truly dead.

What, charging for access to something that has minimized their front labor needs? Are they going to still stay with just one cashier open a time even during rush periods?

And for some reason they now restrict to only a few of the many self checkout registers at a time. Like they have ten counters, and I get sometimes one may be not working…but they only have three open at a time with a long line forming for self checkout. I’m not sure what the goal is there.

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”

That’s not a reason they would throw a pizza party. Parties and company shirts and hats are for when you get the signs that people might be quitting or not motivated. And according the HR’s data, it always makes them happy and ready to get back to work and stop asking for more money and benefits.

Instead of money they should offer some decent health care coverage.

Legolas might be a better analogy.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists calls on Anthem to reverse this proposal immediately.

Anthem cackles and croaks, “You have no power here!”

And there’s no Gandalf present.

Constitutionally there isn’t a restriction for a self pardon. However it goes against the definition of the word and action. Some things by meaning you don’t do towards yourself. That probably won’t matter, since its validity is up to the courts and we know how they’re stacked to do what he wants.

My hot take on the sequels is that the first one was a decent start, and they screwed up the whole plot from there. It had some issues mainly in dropping subplots, probably because what was intended to be followed up wasn’t thanks to different plots and directors.

The prequels should have started with the Clone Wars, covering more of Anakin and Obi-Wan’s relationship, with an occasional flashback to the earlier Anakin to fill in his past. Being a fan from the early years, I didn’t like the prequels that much initially, but the story grew on me after watching them a few more times later along with fan commentary over the years. What I do still think they suffer from is making Anakin’s fall too sudden, and if we got a better sense of how much he and Obi-Wan were brothers in spirit, the eventual fall would mean more. There would also be more room to develop the friction he observes with the Jedi Council, maybe even take things to a new level in why they don’t let him progress. I guess I basically see TPM as a wasted first part to better establish his character.

Literally waiting for the world to say something.

I think it’s far better to find someone you can relate to via their personality first. Everyone has their flaws, so if you’re weeding people out first from appearance and then trying to find the person inside to match, that’s killing your odds a lot. That being said, you can hit it off seeing someone first and then learning more about them, but I think that’s more true in real life where you can pick up other signals that online visuals just aren’t going to do, and those subtle signs will filter your image of them, whereas if you had a picture of them online you might skip over.

However I have no experience in the dating game and am biased as I found my wife of 35 years online back in 1985. Rather she found me in randomly looking for someone to chat with and things went from there.

Remember, when he uses the “nobody knew this” that actually means he didn’t know it. And he says it a lot.

Using the upvote button to agree isn’t a problem, but it’s more of a problem to use the downvote as a disagree if you’re actually engaging with the person to debate the topic since it in theory lowers the visibility of the original post and your own commentary.

I always liked the idea of having a “recommend post” button, and let the better stuff with more recommendations and replies rise to the top naturally. It also avoids the weird feeling in clicking an upvote/agree/like to a topic that you want to discuss but is negative.

You should be more angry at the throwaway society we’ve become to create so much trash, rather than rant at the person who might be the sole employee until someone else comes in to do the regular morning cleanup duties.

So you think some full trash cans cause people to head out to the interstate and only then throw shit out their window? Guess they’re making a statement or something…

It’s not about the cuts, it’s about sending a message.

That’s a very complicated way to spell “insecurity”.

The difference between the two is intent at the time, so either the defense was really good at showing she didn’t mean to shoot and kill (?!), or the prosecution did a crap job of showing that she did.