Presumably the sign meant to say something along the lines of pelvic, or vaginal examination, or whatever the proper English medical signage should be, which would have the correct connotation, but instead they only picked a word with the same denotation.

Oh, this is getting an anime? It was like the one manga I randomly happened to read in the last year. IIRC it was quite the cute Yuri bait, but also not super memorable.

It’s starting to feel like that because that’s exactly how a lot of them think. They’ve just been recently emboldened enough to start saying the quite part out loud.

You’re not fooling anyone. The world is watching who the violent ones are.

As the saying goes, there’s a grain of truth in every joke.

What a great example of the difference between denotation and connotation.

Trump doesn’t care about loyalty, he cares about obedience. In fact I’m quite certain he expects duplicity from all of his minions.

Lost opportunity to call it “Operation CatSnip”

I’m going to take a minute to respond to the argument I think you’re trying to imply here, that organic food leads to e-coli outbreaks in humans.

While there is some validity to this, it’s an oversimplification. The vast majority of e-coli is not problematic. The stuff that’s actually a threat comes from sick animals. So when you have AFOs with tons of animals in close proximity, the manure tends to be more likely to be contaminated. And when that contaminated manure gets used as fertiliser, it makes contaminated vegetables.

This doesn’t necessarily only affect organic vegetables, btw, as the runoff from AFOs can also be a contaminant, so it can affect neighbouring farms as well, organic or otherwise. This is how you can get e-coli contaminated lettuce because it was washed with contaminated water.

Personally, the reason I’d buy organic produce would be a) generally better quality produce and b) avoiding glyphosate and PFAS in pesticides. I think that Monsanto has played out billions in settlements related to roundup speaks volumes.

That said, I’m not nearly crunchy enough to think that artificial fertilisers are problematic. Heck, I use them in my own garden. Stuff that kills stuff tends to be more dangerous than stuff that makes stuff grow, but ofc dosage is everything.

All that is to say, I’d posit that the real problem here is intensified animal agriculture, and corner cutting (both in fertiliser production and sourcing), not organic farming per se.

No shit.

Where the hell are there non-organic plant foods?

If you ask that in the supermarket, you’ll get a very different answer than in a chemistry classroom.

Organic (marketing) and organic (chemistry) are different concepts, so the answer to your question would depend on the context in which it is being asked. 🤷‍♂️

However, I think he did take donations for early access to new titles,

When video game companies accept money for early access to their games, that’s a sale. You give them money, they give you access. I’m not sure why that wouldn’t also apply here.

From your description, unless you were allowed to donate $0 for access, that sounds a lot like a sale to me.

Yeah, for sure. Regardless of legality, it was pretty clearly unethical.

Legally it might be a bit more complicated than that. The address on the mail would’ve been crunchyroll’s office, and it seems like businesses are allowed to open any mail that is addressed (as in having the matching address) to them regardless of whose name is on it.

Absolutely normal. Kitty just likes to stay grounded.

The problem in this is that you can substitute either the Harris campaign or the Muslim voters for “they”

Lol! You’re absolutely right. From my point of view, though, the democratic party is so fully captured and out of touch with actual issues that they’re beyond being reasoned with, so it should almost go without saying who I’m referring to. And yes, I acknowledge how completely fucked that is.

They’ve created this absolutely monstrous situation where we always have to choose between letting people we care about get hurt, or a tiny glimmer of hope of something better, and even though I pushed to avoid the former, I’m fully sympathetic to both sides.

I personally agreed with undecided in principle and was sympathetic that Harris largely ignored them. The problem is that trying to leverage their position for actual good policy outcomes made for this nasty prisoner’s dilemna situation where both parties chose the bad option.

I honestly thought that they’d eventually come around because of just how bad Trump was going to be for democracy, and moreover for the people they cared about. Sadly, they were so devoted to their game of chicken that some of their loved ones will pay for it.

I also don’t think it’s that callous to engage in a little bit of “I fucking told you so.”

Most people I saw here were just trying to achieve the most favourable outcome, given the reality at the time.

Will he though?

Imagine just chilling in the dark, minding your own business, and some asshole comes at you with a light as bright as the sun, and you can’t even close you’re eyes because you don’t have eyelids.