I’m honestly not clear if this is a sarcastic comment or not.
For myself - those all seem like gender neutral virtues, viewed separately and together. I don’t know that I agree with each one as a virtual, but I don’t see anything that would or should apply to one gender more than another.
Along with the world building communities already mentioned, this just sounds like how GMs (and authors) come up with their content.
Certainly I’ve got a few; I need to peek at those communities again to share…
I thought Incredibles predated the Disney takeover? Otherwise I agree
Not… really?
The US probably has more people trying to get more money than other places due to cultural issues; but even as many people as do want more money, it seems rare to want others to have less.
Speaking for myself, I just want money to make sure that food, shelter, and medical needs are taken care of for my family. Beyond that, I actually don’t want more than what I have.
You sigh, but… Porn is the choice of the bonobo, not the chimpanzee, no?
Besides, the atomic bomb isn’t really a fair comparison - we set up a whole crash program in wartime to figure out how to make a big weapon, of course we used it as a weapon first!
I have to catch myself because I tend to mimic the speaking styles of people if I’m talking to them for extended periods of time and I don’t want them to think I’m making fun of them.
My dad was a pastor who had lived all over the place growing up. He’s really gregarious, and when they lived in the DC area it was always fun to see him adopt the accent of whoever he’s talking to within a sentence or two!
People who are naturally social, and who need to connect with people as part of their career, mimic speaking styles as well. I think of it as similar to mirroring the body language of your conversational partner; you’d have to be really exaggerated with it to come across as mocking them.
Right, but in the daytime, the portion of sunlight that is scattered on the way through the atmosphere to a given spot is partially made up for by sunlight that was scattered to that spot away from other areas, which wouldn’t happen under this scheme.
I’m curious how much scattering occurs - I have no idea how to find or model that.
Thanks for the write up!
I’m curious how strong an effect atmospheric scattering would have, even after all that
We make him real
As I recall it, the original Superman concept was a kind of inversion of the Nazi Ubermensch ideal. Pretty sure that’s where the name came from.
I’m not sure which episode that one is! I was thinking of a Next Generation episode named “Rascals”, episode seven of season six. Captain Picard and three others from the Enterprise suffer a transporter accident that de-ages them back to children.
I’ve always loved the gadgeteer/super-genius trope. Iron Man, the Tinker types from Worm, Girl Genius’s Sparks, etc. I always found something appealing to the idea that they can do anything eventually, but they have to work their way to it - they have to think, put in effort, adapt to pitfalls, then get an awesome payoff.
They all seem to have something they specialize in too; so for a specialty, I’ll go for movement enhancements. Flight packs, powered exoskeletons, custom vehicles, etc.
I feel like it would start that way, but hopefully over time you’d realize most people have crap random thoughts, and realize how many people find ways to do well in spite of them
Just women? :D
Hell, Star Trek had that episode!
Yeah, I’m just pissed that even with that they’re still head and shoulders above the competition
I don’t think the same mechanism would work these days, but we have seen people standing up to authorities on their neighbors’ behalf already; often people they don’t even know. Look at all the videos of people driving ICE away.
It doesn’t happen every time of course, but neither did the penny auction solidarity.
According to sources familiar with negotiations, Microsoft’s bid suffered as it refused to accept some of Israel’s demands.
…why is Microsoft the upstanding company here?!
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this meme; but what’s it from?
I’m reading a lot of responses here that seem to rhyme with the “White lives matter!” responses to the BLM movement.
As was the case then, what seems to be getting missed by those saying this is the context. Italy has a major issue with domestic violence, including spousal murder. From the sound of it, it’s usually women who are the victims. Thus, a new law to target wife abusers specifically.
There may be some merit to debating whether this is an effective move or not, I’m not up on my research there; but let’s not deny that they see a need, and are attempting to address it.