Not a fan of being out in nature, personally, at least not actual nature as opposed to like an urban park with deliberately laid out trees and flowers or something. I find city downtown areas more comforting. I imagine the bugs and forest creatures probably don't particularly miss having one more human stomping around their habitat though.
To be fair, there is precident for things to escalate to physical violence on the floor of the US Congress. It was just in the lead-up to the civil war, is all. Arguments getting so heated that legislators can't resist the urge to just beat up the other guy probably are a bad sign for a country.
It's not even that we lack a way to define fish, it's more that we lack a definition that isn't arbitrary. One can define them as something like "vertebrates, except for all these ones that we don't want to include", but then there's not really a clear reason to exclude all the amphibians and reptiles and mammals and such, other than that they don't traditionally get called fish. Some of them even live in water, and a handful of fish can leave the water to a limited extent, so it isn't even that.
Cells are basically the self replicating nanobots that sci fi sometimes has as an example of highly advanced technology, but naturally occurring.
Tankies don't even really fit most definitions for leftism that try to use something more concrete than vibes. They just think they're far left because they like the aesthetics of governments that tried to be or at least called themselves communist.
Isn't this the entire "dollar store" industry? My understanding was that these kinds of thing were the entire reason that business model was profitable. Or does this company do it worse than say dollar general or something does?
I mean, the whole "no ethical consumption under capitalism" or "all corporate ethics are fake" type stuff has plenty of truth to it, but at the same time, one does have to get any good or service not made oneself from somewhere, and corporations are made up of people with different views about what they're personally willing to do, or how much they think taking unethical actions even is the profitable thing. So, there is still room for some businesses to be worse than others.
To be fair, Hong Kong wasn't really large numbers for the government that would actually have had to have been affected to change the policy, that is, mainland China. Had every other Chinese city had protests similar in relative scale, things might have gone differently.
Every second I've lived so far, I haven't died, so if we simply take that pattern and extrapolate it for each future second...
Normally I'd make the typical "food crime" jokes about this choice of toppings, but somehow, being critical of Canadian cultural stuff, even just a joking manner, just feels horrible now, like it'd be in bad taste with all the undeserved trouble my country has been giving them of late. If they can find a way to enjoy pineapple pizza, good for them.
Those guys are what got me to finally start using adblocker, when they were running their videos as every other youtube ad (unless they still do that)
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All the spines and frills are supposed to be for sensing vibrations to help it not need eyes. Supposedly a herbivore, but not really since I just kept both cells mouths all the way through. Kept some cell movement as well, never realized before that the flagella makes a neat rat-like tail in creature stage if you make it large.
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Name isnt anything too creative, its just called the "Slowboat Hauler", but it isnt supposed to be anything too fancy, just the space-fairing version of a bulk cargo freighter, designed by a species that at the time would have thought ftl travel impossible, needing its ships to take the slow way round. The big disk up front is supposed to be a shield to take the impacts of space dust and gas at extreme velocities.
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This little iron refinery probably isnt much to look at for experienced players, but Im pretty proud of it. has 2 miners on a pair of pure iron deposits behind the structure feeding into the 8 smelters inside, divided into 2 different output locations because the best conveyors I currently have can only handle half it's output. There is a small amount of clipping, but nothing super cheaty looking (the mergers that clip through the outside wall dont use the side that clips through, so I like to imagine the exterior bits of them as looking like some sort of ventilation ducts or something.
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This is more meant to resemble some kind of early interplanetary spaceship rather than a true interstellar one, but considering you get your ftl drive by just finding one on a nearby planet, I figure this is the sort of tech level your species would realistically have, to start with.
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If the violence actually stops that and doesn't just become a symbolic victory where the fascists get to keep the laws they passed at the cost of a punch at the legislative floor, sure. But that wasn't my point. I wasn't saying "violence in politics is a bad thing to consider under any and all circumstances", but "if a country has reached a level of polarization where even the members of its governing body feel the need to resort to that with eachother, things have already gone wrong". It's a symptom of a serious problem coming to light, not the problem itself, in other words.