I think the claim that the world is anti-intellectual is somewhat biased. I don’t know if that’s a sampling bias, a cognitive bias, or some other kind of bias. But one way or another, I feel like you’re overblowing things.

This is not true. There are a litany of laws that capturing a wild duck from a public park would be a violation of, so don’t do it.

I pirate content that is not in print within my region. Fan subs of Japanese TV shows, emulated games for discontinued consoles, things like that.

Yeah, dude is asking the wrong question.

As an American whose only knowledge of UK government comes from sporadic episodes of Politics Unboringed, my first thought would be to replace the Minister for Women with a Minister for Gender Equality. They would have all the powers and responsibilities of the Minister for Women, and also gain any powers and responsibilities that a hypothetical Minister for Men would need.

• If there is a need for a Minister for Men, then that need is met by the Minister for Gender Equality
• If there is no need for a Minister for Men, then the only thing that changes is that the Minister for Women has a new, less controversial title

Sounds like a win-win to me, but again, I’m a dumb Yank lol

Then Sea of Monsters ended up being worse somehow.

That seems to be the official line from the Russos and/or Kevin Feige, yes. Take that however you will.

That would actually be comic accurate, too (to some degree). At one point, Aunt May reveals on her deathbed that she secretly knew Peter was Spider-Man for a long time, and wanted him to know that she was proud of him before she died.

They retconned this, of course, bringing Aunt May back to life with no memory of Peter’s identity. Then eventually did more stories about Aunt May learning Peter’s identity, dying, then coming back to life… man, keeping up with comic book lore sucks.

Cool idea. Unfortunately, I don’t see how that would work, since Endgame uses branching-paths time travel instead of closed-loop.

Stop, you’ll give the bots ideas!

In all seriousness, I never fake anything. If I see a bicycle, I click it. Plus, I never need to fake my pauses, since the ones I get are actually bitch hard lol

There’s definitely some Reddit communities I miss. In fact, I recently redownloaded Reddit on my phone to get my fix. Granted, a lot of the communities I miss are NSFW anyway, so Reddit doesn’t get any money from me using them.

If I ever feel the need to downvote my own post, I would probably just as well delete it.

It sounds like OP has heard people say “carbon negative” to mean that something outputs more CO2 than it consumes, and vice versa, which is contrary to how I hear the terms used.

I remember them probing my arm for veins, then the surgery was over. Nothing in between, not even blackness.

No. Theft goes against my personal ethics and religious values.

A bird wants to conquer the universe with jelly beans. His daughter has to stop him, but keeps getting into fights with his Roombas.

If a man donates his sperm and a woman donates an egg, then a baby can be conceived without either bio-parent engaging in intercourse, through in vitro fertilization (“test tube baby”). If the donors remain virgins long enough (maybe they’re ace or something), then their bio-child could lose their virginity before either of them do.