And not only did he see for himself, he wrote up and published his results.

In our case, it’s a sign that my kids struggle with extra-long noodles. We’re letting them get used to scooping with a fork before worrying about much longer strands.

Man, played that a bunch as a kid, then we found a copy again at a random estate sale!

Just ended up Youtubing the VHS tape, though

I largely agree, but I don’t think people actually need to have an “other” to hate. I suspect it’s an easily activated community-level defense mechanism, if that makes sense. One that’s easily a used by manipulative people.

I’m just trying to figure it if there’s an evolutionarily-selected use for having manipulative power-seeking types in our populations, or if they truly are more analogous to a parasitic mutation of a more conventional personality type.

You wanna mention fossil fuel subsidies too?

In the American Midwest at least, it varies by household. You basically just pay attention to what your host does.

Used to be less common to remove them, but at least as far back as the nineties, it was a thing to be aware of.

For a similar reason, I’ve gotten a kick out of the back seat shots in Bluey:

They do (mostly) keep the house surprisingly clean, though

The only incident like this I can remember is Firefly:

Simon: “Are you Alliance?”

Jubal: “Am I a lion? …I don’t really think of myself as one. Though I do have a mighty roar!”

Simon: “…I said, are you Alliance”…

Jubal: “Oh. I thought you said…” Points gun more at Simon “Where’s your sister?”

I like it because it doesn’t really drive the plot or anything, it’s just the first time we see Jubal Early misstep, and seem awkward.

Similarly, when a movie scientist/engineer insists a thing can’t be done, until an authority figure chews them out/threatens them. Then, there’s suddenly a breakthrough.

There’s other ways the person in charge can help!

I think their world view just needs more information. Bill Gates is a horrible person, who has had an excellent PR team whitewashing his name for at least a decade. And unlike Elon Musk, he doesn’t step out from behind the PR team’s cover.

We just need to keep bringing it to people’s attention.

To begin with, instead of “Italy has a major issue with domestic violence”, would it be more fair to say “The Italian government sees domestic violence as a major issue”?

My post was a response to all the “it’s still just murder!” comments; because per your first source, Italian domestic violence does largely target women, and that does need addressed.

But it sounds like your problem with this legislation is that the government is using it to prop themselves up and make themselves look virtuous while they target other disadvantaged populations. Would you mind expanding on that? My knowledge of Italian current events is woefully lacking!

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.

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