unpopular opinion: i do not like TMNZ.
don’t get me wrong, some of the contestants are great fun to watch, indeed. but their Assistant and their Taskmaster are too weak a glue to hold the whole thing together.
even TMAU is preferable to me, personally, to TMNZ mainly because the chemistry between the two Toms is so much better.
to kill a mockingbird: a book about justice properly administered in the american deep south.
there’s no probably about it. baby kal el was not people at the time of its entry into the earth’s atmosphere.
unless–i’ll grant you this–the assertion is that the superman universe overlapped with the MIB universe, where agreements and laws did exist for the immigration of extraterrestrial beings onto earth.
but kryptonians aren’t people, either. without exception.
the core issue is that there is too little road space for the number of cars that ply that route and too much road space for the bikes that are ridden there.
it seems to one that an easier fix would be for more people to give up driving in favour of riding bikes.
an arctic tern isn’t a birth citizen. a canadian goose isn’t a birth citizen. they just lands there in winter en route to warmer climes.
it’s not illegal for them to do so.
kal el was as human as ET. laws made for man should not apply to him.
that logic would make all migratory birds illegal. imaginary lines drawn by men do not have legal significance in such cases (except for smuggling scenarios, which kal el’s was not).
how was kal el illegal? there were no laws against extraterrestrial beings, were there?
isn’t he more focused on outvasions now, though?
this is not a valid comparison. the number of people in and around cars–and the amount of interactions that the average person has with a car–vastly outstrips those near or using guns. by at least two orders of magnitude, one would estimate.
it’s like saying that the number of papercuts received is marginally higher than the number of intentional stab wounds and the media only focuses on one.
that’s how it should be. one of those two things impacts a larger percentage of the people that encounter it.
graduating is not daunting. not by any stretch. in fact, that’s the point where life peaks. everything after is a steep downhill ride.
yes, ai adoption has turned that downhill run into a cliff. but if someone thinks graduation is even remotely daunting, then they would struggle even in the most non-ai of worlds.
and their companies are biased against humans in hiring.
unfortunately, there are champions for the widespread adoption of ai amongst the general public–amongst folk who won’t gain a red nickel from all the hype and marketing around these half-baked services.
their willingness to stuff more and more ai slop down their gullets means there is greater incentive for techbros to ram ai down everybody’s throats.
ah well. thank god for being childfree. i’ll be dead long before the shit really hits the fan and none of mine will be around to suffer from it.
not with the type of thick-nibbed pen that’s most likely to be used when signing bats (and that, indeed, has been used on the bat in the OP).
separately, “most” and “average” are not synonymous.
article: “imaginary time is not imaginary like the tooth fairy…”
headline: “Scientists Measured … Time That Shouldn’t Exist”
sometimes yes, sometimes no. i don’t have a blanket rule about it.
you can flush this spam post straight down the toilet (you know, where deuces are wild).
if the average signature takes up an area of 20cm² (including necessary padding), and if every person of the 8 billion alive has indeed signed that bat, then the total space taken for the signatures would be 160 billion cm²–or 16km², which is about as big as most airports.
the ratio of length of a baseball bat to its average diameter is 42": 2". since height (h)=42x the radius ®, the equation for the surface area of a baseball bat simplifies to 42πr³.
so if our baseball bat holds all 8bn signatures on its 160bn cm² surface, the radius of such a bat would be ~1066cms, or 11 meters. and its length would be 447 meters or about six 747s stacked nose-to-tail human-centipede style.
(yes, this has been a productive saturday morning, indeed.)
(edit: minor corrections.)
did they deserve no clemens-y?
my theory: men get themselves killed sooner doing stupid shit before the symptoms of the disease get time to truly manifest themselves.
and that skews the results of this study.