Severity of punishment doesn’t actually serve as an effective deterrent because nobody envisions themselves being caught.

The crime is simple, undoing it is very complex.

For your own sadistic pleasure? The only point of “making them suffer” is for the gratification of the torturer. I don’t take pleasure in pain, I just want them gone.

I much prefer harm reduction to punishment. “Justice” is overrated, just let the monsters die and get out of the way as fast as possible.

if you see a shelled peanut with the husk on, you wouldn’t call it a whole fruit.

You reasonably could, though. “Fruit” has different meanings (with significant overlap) when speaking culinarily versus botanically. Corn, for example, is a fruit and a vegetable and a seed and a cereal grain depending on context.

“Each containing a single seed inside” does not mean “those are the seeds” and I provided a counter-example to illustrate my point.

Andrew Johnson started this whole ball rolling by letting the Confederacy get away with it.

It’s a little arbitrary but the thickness of the pericarp (shell/husk) is the key difference between a nut and an achene. Strawberries have achenes.

A peach contains a single seed but you don’t call the whole thing a seed. The pips of a strawberry are called “achenes” which is a type of dry fruit. It doesn’t matter at all for general use but it is botanically significant.

Yeah, practice at the range until your aim doesn’t suck.

Many game communities have opted for the “unbridled vandalism” strategy to push people away from fandom. Just replace all the articles with plausible lies.

Echo chambers are dangerous, personal affirmation programs even more so. LLMs are not “support”, they cannot be therapists, they let people offload mental tasks and allow skills to atrophy.

I’ll happily blame all religion, thank you. Nobody should build a worldview where an unaccountable (and imperceptible) third party is responsible for moral decisions.

I wash my very long hair 2-3 times a week and often get compliments from women. Many express some variation of “I wish my hair would grow that long” but none of them like the answer. “I do nothing to it. No heat treatments, no bleach, no color, no tight braids, no styling. Shampoo approximately every other day and condition weekly.”

(Dish soap would probably strip the natural oils too aggressively, even for short hair. Rough on the scalp.)

Size only really matters if you’re using the map for overland navigation, and even then it’s more important to preserve compass lines. (And it’s quite telling that the project is just injecting their own bias instead of actually pushing for accurate representation.)

Danny McBride. I can grit my teeth if he’s playing a small role, 30 Minutes or Less was pushing the limit, but he so often plays the same insufferable, arrogant asshole and he plays it too well.

There’s at least one organization working to fix that lingering impact. Outdoorafro.org is all about linking Black Americans with the parks and wild places that have historically been off-limits, dangerous, or discouraged.

I wouldn’t put too much stock in the weird shit Johnson says without a second corroborating source, personally. He’s an old Marine with some cliche drill sergeant characterization because he started as a throwaway side-character.

Plenty of people who were diagnosed, or just grew up, before ASD replaced Asperger’s as the preferred nomenclature don’t see themselves as in the same bucket as someone who is nonverbal or otherwise severely impacted.

Sounds like you don’t know very much about ecology. Outliers are very often punished in nature.