I think so, in the sense that the tax is enforced by state violence. The system should be redesigned such that the school is no longer reliant on extorting non-consenting parties in order to function effectively.

I like that it’s not a realistic human foot. Sometimes art should capture the idea of a thing rather than just the superficial image of the thing, you know? It has character.

Also some plastics are made renewably and/or are biodegradable. It’s a broad range of materials.

Better get rid of that source link, OP.

Why would a website need to know my screen resolution? That’s private.

You can use non-metallic substances also, so that metal detectors don’t pick them up.

Spiking also won’t save the tree. The idea is that it will still be chopped down, but the device in its body will destroy expensive mill equipment.

Is it not??

Yeah, they’d never put an unsafe vehicle into production. It would help boost confidence if someone explained what the backup plan is.

Nice gender, nerd. Did you mom pick it out for you?

It’s not like it was a true story in the first place.

I’m fine with the logic of a species going extinct because they destroyed their own ecosystem, but intentionally accelerating that process is what I can only describe as evil. It’s doing massive harm for no benefit. It won’t save the planet’s current inhabitants from further damage; the real motivation is genocide against humans.

Is there like a robbery culture analogous to rape culture that I’m not aware of? Is there a ruling class of black people who feel entitled to other people’s stuff? Do black people frequently avoid robbery charges on the grounds that one mistake shouldn’t ruin a whole life with jail time and a bad record? Are you sure you didn’t want that black man to rob you? What were you wearing at the time?

How is that any more or less cringe than any other ball sport?

When I was a child middle-class women would usually have multiple rooms of the house in which no one was allowed to exist because our very skin oils would destroy the fancy fabric, so I understood this immediately. I was made to sleep on floors so as to not ruin couches.

There actually are multiple bacteria which can eat PET plastic now. The ocean is lousy with them because that’s where we put all the plastic. :)

Here in Sweden the government recently lowered taxes on groceries so that the stores would lower their prices for customers. lol

I grew up in a very male-as-default English-speaking culture. Any animal, robot, or plant would be referred to as it or he, unless that creature/thing has additional female markers such as wearing pink, makeup, etc.

For examples look at the designs of Mickey and Minnie Mouse or Babs and Buster Bunny. If you draw a little blob with eyes, people will say “He’s/It’s cute.” If you put a pink bow on it, they will say “She’s cute.”

You can even look at the word “woman” itself. “Man” originally just meant any person, but “woman” was invented to speak specifically about a “wife-man.” Going to your German examples, why did they make special words for female bakers, etc. and none for male bakers? It’s because male is the default and female is a deviation from that norm. You don’t need a special word to describe the default assumption.

There’s this old riddle:

A father and son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene, and the son is rushed to the hospital. When he is taken into the operating room, the surgeon says, “I can’t operate on this boy! He’s my son!” How is this possible?

It plays on one’s assumptions about gender.

I can stay up literally the entire night with an analog book and dim yellow light. But as soon as someone in my phone starts shining a floodlight directly into my retinas, it’s off to sleepy town.

I think it’s because bozo is an insult to intelligence while twat and shithead are insults to behavior.

It’s not impossible at all. You just have to blur the faces and any identifying marks unless you’ve obtained explicit consent. Kind people already do this regularly.