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@Toggleston @iheartbudi At least that was a great episode. Whoever designed the soundtrack knew what they were doing.

@iheartbudi she shows up like once and then gets killed in a random tales of the jedi episode

fuck i always forget yaddle exists. why does no one ever talk about her

$658.8 million and they couldn't keep the D-Rex the same size throughout the movie

Wild animal vaccines are a thing. In 1978, Switzerland airdropped 4,000 vaccine-laden chicken heads from helicopters over the Alps. And it worked: fox rabies was eliminated. For most of history, our approach to sick wild animals was to treat it as not our problem. Turns out that was a bad idea, because roughly 60% of human infectious diseases come from wild animals. So scientists got creative. Rabies was spreading through raccoons, foxes and coyotes despite culling hundreds of thousands of them — which, besides being grim, didn't even work. The solution? Hide vaccines inside food and let the animals vaccinate themselves while having no idea they're participating in a public health program. Switzerland went first. Their method of choice was vaccine-stuffed chicken heads, which were thrown out of helicoters. This eliminated fox rabies from the entire country by 1999. The US followed with fishmeal blocks dropped near dumpsters to vaccinate raccoons. They now distribute up to 10 million baits a year. This is how Texas wiped out two rabies variants entirely. Vaccinating wild animals is cost effective: every dollar spent saved up to $13 in human treatment costs. Now we're going further. Australia approved a koala chlamydia vaccine in 2025 (yes, koalas have chlamydia). Researchers are also developing anti-fungal gels for bats. And we are moving on the "philosophical" dimension too.Disease isn’t bad solely because it threatens a species’s survival but because it causes suffering. Every koala or raccoon that contracts a fatal illness spends days or weeks vomiting, seizing, blind, feverish, or paralyzed. None can hope for treatment. Then, alone and in pain, they die. We can prevent this!

@Veronizt @realBowfree @TruthFairy131 I'm aware, and we are rather obviously not talking about the Muslims in Turkey.

@sil2068 @realBowfree @TruthFairy131 How small are your brains and eyes to not see the 🇹🇷 in the background?

A young girl wants to distribute free cookies & chocolates in her community. Immediately, a horde of Muslim women rush over & surround the girl, pushing one another to grab handfuls off of the plate. Not one thanks the girl.

@realBowfree @TruthFairy131 Mass denaturalization and mass deportation is necessary.

@TruthFairy131 The day I watch the military kick down doors to remove/deport these creatures will be the happiest day of my life

@Honey_Alchemist @Pirat_Nation From what I've seen it has a karma system, it's just not absolute black and white, and your character doesn't morph in relation to it.

@Pirat_Nation The upcoming fallout game is moving away from the series classic theme of radioactivity. If fable doesn't have the karma system it's not fable, though all I've heard of the game so far has made it seem it was fable in name alone so far.

The upcoming Fable reboot is moving away from the series’ classic good-and-evil system. Players will no longer grow halos for being good or horns for being evil, as Playground Games wants morality to feel more realistic and less black-and-white. Different people and regions in Albion will react to your actions in their own ways. Your reputation won’t be fixed, allowing you to reinvent yourself as you explore new areas.

@Kit_Shicker @JerryDunleavy @GWOTMF The issue is that it's tethered to nothing. Amorphous designs are fine in Seattle tech offices, but not as memorials to the fallen.

@JerryDunleavy @GWOTMF I am going to buck the trend and say I don't hate the design and architecture. I think it is pretty and visually interesting. However, this is not good for a monument to GWOT. Wrong aesthetic without enough tethering to the men and women who fought it and what was accomplished.

The Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation (@GWOTMF) has released the design concept for the GWOT Memorial which will be built on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Full announcement video here: youtu.be/qMbJt0-hHNg

@SicklyTheNinJa This is why I want a Witcher game to go to distant lands such as Zerrikania, Zangvebar, Hannu, etc.

The fact that The Witcher world is never fully mapped in the books always fascinated me. We only get rough layouts of the Northern Kingdoms, and even in the games, we’re still seeing just a small part of a much bigger world 🗺️

@NDRepublicans The morally correct approach is to minimize the suffering in the world, not to "accept" it. We can debate the complexities of individual situations, but that is the overarching truth.

This is just the trad version of fat activists insisting "akshually" obese people are just as healthy as anyone else. Why can't we just admit down syndrome is objectively a horrific, debilitating condition but also children who have it still shouldn't be killed? It's not a blessing but rather a consequence of our fallen nature and original sin. The world is the way it is and we need to accept the suffering and beauty that comes with it.

Mosquitoes should be eliminated In the future, it will be seen as bizarre and barbaric that this was just accepted as part of the natural order of things, much as plagues and maternal mortality were as well A tiny flying vector predates upon billions of people a year, spreading disease, and day to day little thought is given to how strange this is

@AmbeRosenvy @realMaalouf Yet there is culture behind not wearing a hijab. The idea that Western preferences are neutral or noncultural, and that everyone else's is culture, is both wrong and an insult.

@realMaalouf One is sharing culture. The other isn't. There's no culture behind not wearing a hijab. It's essentially like going up to a guy who doesn't wear makeup and asking him if he wants to wear it. That's fine, but asking a person who wears makeup all the time to remove it is just tacky

Muslim woman travels all over Europe asking girls to try on a hijab. Now imagine the opposite: asking Muslim women to take off the hijab. How would that go?!

@TheRover66 @RobertKennedyJc Because it's a practical solution that wipes out mosquito populations. Why wouldn't it be allowed? I wish that they'd go further and try to make the little menaces extinct.

@RobertKennedyJc Why is this still being allowed? Why isn't this being addressed with indictments and jail?

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but releasing millions of mosquitoes into the environment to solve a mosquito problem sounds like the kind of idea that deserves a lot more questions before it gets a green light. Question everything! What do you think? MAHA

@WitcherVerse_ It's possible that after the crunch of 4, 5, and 6 they relax a bit and make expansions for 6 (maybe 5 as well). I know that most of the teams will pivot to Cyberpunk 2, but we can hope.

(1/2) Some headlines made it sound like CDPR officially confirmed “no DLC for Witcher 4.” What the co CEO actually said was that adding an expansion “would be difficult” due to their ambitious 6-year trilogy plan. He didn’t say that we definitely have no plans for DLC.

@libsoftiktok gofundme.com/f/supporting-t… This is the family of four that was killed. The 5th victim hasn't yet been identified.

BREAKING: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirms the driver of the bus that crashed into a line of cars in Virginia, kiIIing 5 and injuring 34, is a Chinese national who became a U.S. citizen and DOESN’T SPEAK ENGLISH. He got his CDL from Democrat Kathy Hochul’s New York.

@LeadingReport Or just take away their license. That seems simpler, and more fitting.

New York drivers who accumulate 16 or more school-zone speed camera violations in a year will be required to install speed-limiting devices in their vehicles.

@laze91 @DiscussingFilm It felt right to me. They were huge war robots some droidsmith had cobbled together. Slow, lumbering motions suited them.

@DiscussingFilm I figured it was stop motion, and honestly not very well done. One of my only nitpicks. They were moving at a much lower frame rate than everything else. Literally looked like that classic skeleton scene. It could have been done better with more time.

Stop-motion work on ‘THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU’ Phil Tippett and his studio returned to the Star Wars universe to work on the sequence.

The perpetual obstructionist is out, the reliable red vote is in.

@Pirat_Nation Given how they handled Rings of Power this is a blessing for the fandom.

Amazon Game Studios has cancelled its Lord of the Rings MMO. Announced in May 2023 in partnership with Embracer, the project was still in very early pre-production. The decision follows Amazon’s major layoffs last October, which scaled back several first-party AAA and MMO. The studio says it continues exploring a new game experience set in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

@LeadingReport That's a bad idea. "For our 250th anniversary, let's put 250 criminals back on the streets."

White House is reportedly weighing a plan for President Trump to issue 250 pardons during the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations this summer, per WSJ.

@DeAdInSiDe724 @bigbabolat @LeadingReport He secured the southern border, implemented tax deductions (overtime, tips, social security), strengthened welfare requirements, removed DEI programs from the federal government, dismantled USAID / ended a slate of other foreign aid programs, etc.

@sil2068 @bigbabolat @LeadingReport What is Trump getting done? I voted for him so don’t assume I’m a democrat- I see nothing but broken promises but please elaborate? Thanks - former voter

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